Daily Inspiration Quote by Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson isn’t minimizing 9/11 so much as weaponizing it. The line pivots on a bait-and-switch: he nods at the obvious horror of “bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,” then demotes it into a manageable, almost crude image so he can elevate his real antagonist - cultural drift. The phrase “a few” is doing a lot of work: it shrinks an event that reorganized American life into a small, containable threat, clearing rhetorical space to argue that the deeper emergency is internal.

“Gradual erosion of the consensus” sounds like a historian’s diagnosis, but Robertson uses it as a moral indictment. He frames national unity not as a contested political project but as an inherited agreement now being dissolved - implicitly by secularism, pluralism, changing sexual norms, the loosening grip of traditional Protestant authority. That “held our country together” is nostalgia with a verdict baked in: the past wasn’t just different, it was coherent; the present isn’t just noisy, it’s dangerous.

The subtext is a familiar religious-right move: external enemies are real, but they’re secondary. The true battle is spiritual and cultural, and the stakes are civilizational. It’s also a bid for agenda-setting in a post-crisis moment - redirecting fear outward back into a long-running domestic campaign. By recasting terrorism as episodic and “consensus” as existential, Robertson argues that the nation’s biggest threat isn’t what happens to us, but what we’ve become.