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Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday explained to his viewers that "sophisticated" Americans receive fewer miracles because they learned "things that says God isn’t real," like evolution.

On Monday's episode of CBN's The 700 Club, Robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why "amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in places like Africa, and not here in the USA?"

"People overseas didn't go to Ivy League schools," the TV preacher said, laughing. "We're so sophisticated, we think we've got everything figured out. We know about evolution, we know about Darwin, we know about all these things that says God isn't real."

"We have been inundated with skepticism and secularism," he continued. "And overseas, they're simple, humble. You tell 'em God loves 'em and they say, 'Okay, he loves me.' You say God will do miracles and they say, 'Okay, we believe him.'"

"And that's what God's looking for. That's why they have miracles."

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)

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Televangelist Pat Robertson on Monday encouraged families who could not pay their bills to become "partners" of his ministry because "it's just $20 a month."

At the end of Monday's 700 Club broadcast, Robertson told the story of D.L and Deborah Hobby, who "lived large" in a 4,600-square-foot home until the housing market crashed and their real estate business dried up.

After selling their home at a "huge loss," the Hobbys declared Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2010. The "defeated" family of four was forced to move into a 1,000-square-foot home.

"That is when we really started to focus on God," D.L. Hobby recalled.

"D.L. and Deborah did agree on one thing: They would keep on tithing despite their financial difficulties," a CBN narrator explained. "The Hobbys began to watch The 700 Club and eventually became partners."

"There were so many stories on there that gave me hope through God's word," Deborah Hobby told CBN. "And it just encouraged us."

That's when "amazing things started to happen," the report noted. "Deborah's business eventually started to rebound. And within two years of the bankruptcy, the Hobbys bought a larger home."

"Our finances have been restored because of him," Deborah Hobby observed. "And I believe it was because of us continuing to tithe, and us putting God first in our lives."

"They were faithful," Robertson opined at the conclusion of the report. "Listen, there is no way you can out give God. You can't do it. And that which is given to him will come back 30, 60 and 100 fold."

"We encourage you to join the 700 Club," the TV preacher added. "It's just $20 a month. And if all of us do it together, it gets to be millions and millions and millions of dollars!"

I predict that this latest pronouncement by Pat Robertson is going to go over about as well as his supposed secret messages from God about who was going to win the presidential election, or his more recent remarks about casting demons out of used clothing.

Pat Robertson's Prayers Can Make You A Millionaire:

Televangelist Pat Robertson regularly hosts a segment on the 700 Club in which he cures viewers of ailments that God has revealed to him. This is part of positive confession, where Word-Faith pastors like Robertson claim to speak things into existence. Quite regularly it involves money.

For example, today Robertson announced that God is going to grant a lucky 700 Club viewer one million dollars: “God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, ‘I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I’m going to supply the need that you requested,’ it’s done, in Jesus’ name.’”

Can't wait to see who it is!

After Pat Robertson's statement last week that homosexuality is "related to demonic possession," Media Matters put together a mash up of some of the other things Robertson has called demonic over the years.

Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter:

Televangelist Pat Robertson recently made headlines for suggesting that homosexuality may be driven by "demonic possession." In recent years, Robertson has labeled a wide (and frequently bizarre) range of things as demonic, including: feng shui, yoga, karate, horoscopes, Twilight, paintings of Buddha, television shows about ghosts, Halloween, psychics, young girls levitating their friends at sleepovers, and (sometimes) adopted children from other countries.

More details and transcripts of some of the original clips at the link above. I got a kick out of the first comment in response to their post and thought I'd share it here:

Seriously Pat, it's more effective if you hold snakes while you do this. Big poisonous ones (with the sacs removed of course).

Some might argue that it's demonic to fleece the old, the scared, and the stupid - not me, but some might. . .

From Right Wing Watch last week, more homophobic wingnuttery from Pat Robertson -- Pat Robertson Says Homosexuality is 'Related to Demonic Possession':

Today the 700 Club featured a segment on a man who tried to “change” his sexuality by marrying a woman, but later ended up having extramarital affairs with men. The couple reconciled after his “repentance and deliverance from the homosexual lifestyle” and decided to stay together. “That type of conduct is wrong and it is time that in society we say certain things are wrong,” Robertson said. “He’s obsessed, he has a compulsion,” he added. “I think it is somehow related to demonic possession.”

h/t Steve Benen