Christian Right icon Pat Robertson dead at 93

Pat Robertson, the broadcaster who helped make evangelical Christians into a political powerhouse within the Republican Party, has died at the age of 93.

The Associated Press reports that Robertson's death was announced Thursday morning by the Christian Broadcasting Network that he founded on.

No cause of death was given at the time.

Robertson often made controversial statements, most infamously when he appeared to agree with the Rev. Jerry Falwell that the September 11th terrorist attacks were an example of "the enemies of America [giving] us probably what we deserve."

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Per the New York Times, Robertson also "said that liberal Protestants embodied 'the spirit of the Antichrist,'" that "feminism drove women to witchcraft," and that "his prayers had averted hurricanes."