A club with 700 questions

I have never been a fan of the 700 club.  I will admit, sometimes I will watch it to try to understand Fundamentalist Christianity.  I still don't get it.

I have a clip above of Pat Robertson saying something rather controversial about the Haitian disaster.  After the worst natural disaster to hit the poorest country in our hemisphere, one would expect the host of a christian TV show like Pat Robertson to support the mainly Catholic Haiti.  He didn't.  In fact, he said that the Haitians brought this upon themselves, 'true story,' after a pact with the devil.

Despite the lack of proper citations, many of his viewers take what he says to heart. Why? well, Pat Robertson claims that he is a deity (which I don't understand to begin with) who has intense conversations with god.  For instance, he has a part in the show where he will shout out something like, "a woman in Texas has just been healed of her epilepsy while watching this show."

If anyone who didn't claim to be connected to god made a claim like Robertson's, they would have no public outlet supplied to them. For instance Don Imus lost his media outlet after calling black women's basketball players at Rutgers, "nappy-headed hos." Fundamentalist Christians seem to be the only exception.  Why does their audience let them get away with anything they want just by claiming the will of god.   It reminds me of the famous bible quote, "and thou shalt exult in his name, by blaming 9/11 on abortionists and homosexuals and telling impoverished, disaster stricken countries that they made a deal with the devil."