Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995
Rev. Robertson's Grand International Conspiracy Theory
By Michael Lind
The New World Order
by Pat Robertson
Word Publishing, 319 pp., $17.99; $5.99 (paper)
Reverend Marion Gordon 'Pat' Robertson is the founder and leader of the most powerful grass-roots movement in American politics today. The Christian Coalition, a tax-exempt and supposedly nonpartisan institution founded after Robertson's run for the Republican nomination in 1988, claims over a million members and 1.8 million households on its mailing list. It is, moreover, the central organization of the television evangelist's empire, which includes the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and the Family Channel, various radio and television conglomerates, Regent University (formerly CBN University), and the American Center for Law and Justice, a far-right public interest law firm. Robertson's political and media empire, in turn, is part of an extensive network of US and global television and radio evangelism, seminaries, publishers, and magazines directed largely by Robertson's political and theological allies—not to mention the largest and most powerful Protestant denomination in the United States, the Southern Baptist church, to which many Christian Coalition members belong.
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