Daily Inspiration Quote by Pat Robertson

The line lands like a rebuke from a man who made a career out of rebukes. Pat Robertson’s “zero tolerance” isn’t just personal irritation; it’s a power move. By branding his targets “sanctimonious morons,” he hijacks the moral vocabulary of religion and flips it into a weapon against rival moralists. “Sanctimonious” is doing the heavy lifting here: it implies fake righteousness, performative piety, the kind of moral posturing Robertson often accused secular critics (and sometimes other Christians) of practicing. Calling them “morons” completes the delegitimization: not merely wrong, but too stupid to deserve engagement.

The phrase “try to scare people” is the tell. Fear has always been the high-voltage current in American culture wars, and Robertson was hardly innocent of it. He warned audiences about looming threats - secularism, feminism, LGBTQ rights, divine judgment, national decline - all framed as existential. So the subtext reads less like a principled stand against manipulation and more like boundary enforcement: his fears are justified, theirs are hysteria; his alarms are prophecy, theirs are propaganda.

Contextually, it fits Robertson’s media-era clerical persona: the televangelist as commentator, converting political conflict into a moral narrative with heroes and heretics. The rhetorical trick is preemption. He anticipates the charge that religious broadcasting trades in panic, then turns it outward, positioning himself as the adult in the room policing emotional blackmail. It works because it lets followers feel both aggrieved and superior - vaccinated against “scare tactics” while still mobilized by them.