WATCH: Pat Robertson blames Vegas shooting on 'disrespect' for Trump and the national anthem

Pat Robertson, the famed televangelist from the long-running 700 Club show, claimed on Monday in the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack that the was caused by people disrespecting the president and the flag.

As pointed out by Hemant Mehta at Patheos' "The Friendly Atheist" column, Robertson said "violence in the streets" could be explained by a lack of "controlling" and "biblical" authority in the United States.

"Why is it happening?” Robertson asked his audience. “The fact that we have disrespect for authority; there is profound disrespect for our president, all across this nation they say terrible things about him. It’s in the news, it’s in other places. There is disrespect now for our national anthem, disrespect for our veterans, disrespect for the institutions of our government, disrespect for the court system. All the way up and down the line, disrespect."

"Until there is biblical authority,” Robertson continued, “there has to be some controlling authority in our society and there is none. And when there is no vision of God, the people run amok … and we have taken from the American people the vision of God, the whole idea of reward and punishment, an ultimate judge of all our actions, we’ve taken that away. When there is no vision of God, the people run amok."

Watch Robertson's strange explanation for the Vegas shooting below, via Right Wing Watch.