Pat Robertson to wifeless man: Go to Christian Mingle and you won't burn in hell for 'nasty thoughts'

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday told an unmarried man who was worried about "burning in hell" that he should find a wife at the dating website ChristianMingle.com.

"What happens when the Lord doesn't put a woman in one's life?" a viewer named Paul asked Robertson in an email on Thursday. "I'm 52 and never had an opportunity to be married. Why should I burn in hell just for thoughts when the Lord hasn't lifted a finger to help me? I think it's very cruel."

"Come off it," Robertson quipped. "Go get your own woman. Why do you think God's got to get you one? I tell you what, there are a heap of ladies around who are just yearning to find a good man to be a husband, they're all over."

"And what you need to do is to go where they are," he continued. "Just don't sit around waiting and say, oh, God, send me a spouse, I've got -- quote -- nasty thoughts and I'll burn in hell if I don't get one. I mean, please."

The TV preacher said that one solution was to go online to find a wife.

"There something called Christian Mingle that has 5 million people... So look around, and don't be blaming God."

Watch the video below from CBN's The 700 Club, broadcast April 9, 2015.