Presented without comment, from today’s 700 Club:
And you know Christy, something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French, uh you know Napoleon the third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said we will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French. True Story, and so the Devil said OK it’s a deal. And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they’ve been cursed by one thing after the other desperately poor. That island is Hispaniola is one island. It’s cut down the middle. On one side is Haiti on the other side is the Dominican republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc.. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. Uh, they need to have, and we need to pray for them a great turning to God and out of this tragedy. I’m optimistic something good may come but right now we’re helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable.
Excuse me, one comment: Pat Robertson is an insipid piece of trash obviously means well, so we shouldn’t be too mean to him. Oh, you can’t please everybody, so just go read Right Wing Watch’s compilation of Pat Robertson’s Greatest Hits. Included in the collection are the time he blamed gays for 9/11, the many times he said gays are going to hell, the time he blamed Ariel Sharon’s health problems on God’s displeasure with Israeli policy, and many, many more!
If you’d like to see the video, click here, watch it below, courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
(h/t PZ Myers, who offers some great links for people who are looking for ways to help the people of Haiti right now)
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Oh how silly and naive of me, there I thought it was plate tectonics.
well, duh, who placed Haiti over those plate boundaries, anyway?????
I figured he was aiming for gays in New Orleans and yet again, has very very poor aim.
Got to love Pat’s grasp of economics as well:
Haiti sinners = poor
Dominican Republic righteous = rich
Keynes move over, Pat’s now here!
In my opinion, Pat Robertson is a nut, more focused on his billion dollar empire than on truth.
That said, although there is much disagreement on this topic, the L.A. Times does link Haitian independence from France with voodoo,
L.A. Times – “Voodoo was at the root of our (Haitian) independence…”
as does the BBC:
BBC – “Voodoo has been practiced in Haiti since the late 18th Century.”
Other interesting Links:
Jeff Sharlett’s Revealer blog on Haitian voodoo.
A Haitian Ph.D. on the founding of the nation.
Trying to pin down the truth.
Phew … fortunately these article are from 2003! For a moment there I thought the BBC had done another cerebrum flatulence with my TV license fee … as they did with their “Should gays be executed?” question. (Click on my name to get background on that.)
Voodoo co-exists within the Haitian Roman Catholic Church, much like polygamy continues to be tolerated within the conservative African members of the Anglican Communion.
It’s unfortunate when people like Pat Robertson pretend to be separate from that which they condemn.
It all depends on whether or not you equate vodoun with devil worship. I don’t.
Totally what you would expect from Pat Robertson who along with the now (thankfully) deceased, unraptured Jerry Falwell said that that New York deserved the attack on the world trade centre because of the gays, lesbians and the ACLU.
Right now, there is a banner on the AFA.net’s website, referring readers to a TV discussion about how to stop churches haemorraging believers, as young people drift away from religion, en-masse. Robertson, and other nutcases like him help accelerate that exodus.
I agree, adrianT. We shouldn’t forget that Robertson and Fallwell demonstrated just what traitors they are to America. I think reporters should ask anyone of any prominence who meets with Robertson, “Why are you meeting with a traitor?” I’d love to see the responses.
This video link no longer goes to the related video—find it so it can be passed along to others.
Shall fix that in a minute!
There’s a YouTube around somewhere.
Fixed.
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He forgot that jesus himself choose utter poverty to riches of his america…..He forgot that jesus himself said “Blessed are the poor”….Jesus himself gave the example of the son on abraham who ate and had a good time on earth only to go go to hell in his after life…This guy is a pharsee….totally insensitive to someones pain…because its not his…..he should shut up and stop preaching…he is old…irrelavant…and uses God like his w***e…..this old fag needs to quiten and pray….
Great article ridiculing Roberson is just published on Slate:
“A Fault Is Not a Sin: It’s idiotic to blame anything other than geology for the Haitian earthquake.”
(Christopher Hitchens)
http://www.slate.com/id/2241877/
“…We live on a cooling planet with a volcanic interior that is insecurely coated with a thin crust of grinding tectonic plates. Earthquakes and tsunamis are to be expected and can even to some degree be anticipated. It’s idiotic to ask whose fault it is. The Earth’s thin shell was quaking and cracking millions of years before human sinners evolved, and it will still be wrenched and convulsed long after we are gone. These geological dislocations have no human-behavioral cause. The believers should relax; no educated person is going to ask their numerous gods “why” such disasters occur. A fault is not the same as a sin.
However, the believers can resist anything except temptation. Where would they be if such important and frightening things had natural and rational explanations? They *want* the gods to be blamed…”
“…As so often, the first priest out of the trap on this occasion was that evil moron Pat Robertson, who announced on the Christian Broadcasting Network that Haitians had long ago made an agreement with Satan to enlist diabolic help against French imperialism. The implication was clear … for this offense, God would kill underfed Haitian babies in slums 200 years later. (He would also kill the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Joseph Serge Miot, and bring his cathedral down on his head, though since Pat Robertson doesn’t really think that Catholics are proper Christians, there’s perhaps scant irony there.)”
“…The vital next stage ‚Äî beyond mere charity and rescue ‚Äî will be to try and liberate Haiti’s people from fear of witch doctors of all stripes and to educate them in the family planning that their country so urgently needs. Let’s see how the various parties of God come out on that.”