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By the way, check the news footage. How many Haitians have we seen thanking the devil for sparing their lives? Aren't we seeing them thanking the biblical god, Jesus, clutching bibles, raising their hands to the sky in thanks, etc?
New 6.1-quake hits Haiti, people flee into streets | World News | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20100119/CB.Haiti.Earthquake/ - broken link)
Robertson should really have opened up a geography textbook. He might have learned that the islands in the Caribbean tend to be volcanic in origin. Wherever there are volcanoes, there are fault lines. And wherever there are fault lines, there are earthquakes. If you live anywhere near any of these geographic realities, guess what's going to happen sooner or later...and the devil hasn't got anything to do with it.
By the way, check the news footage. How many Haitians have we seen thanking the devil for sparing their lives? Aren't we seeing them thanking the biblical god, Jesus, clutching bibles, raising their hands to the sky in thanks, etc?
I am no fan of Pat Robertson, don't like him, nor agree with him about a lot of stuff, and definitely don't support him, but I am seeing a lot of disproportionatelarge amount of posts about his jackassedness. Let God be the judge of him. Anyway, seems like we worry about the speck in someone else's eye (I am bad for that a lot of times myself admittedly) than the beam in our own eye. If people would put 1/10 as much energy into something positive (in this case, help with Haitian or other relief effort, or at least support those that do, or help out in one's own neighborhood, lots of suffering here in America, too) as they do dissing old Pat, untelling what could be accomplished.
I am no fan of Pat Robertson, don't like him, nor agree with him about a lot of stuff, and definitely don't support him, but I am seeing a lot of disproportionatelarge amount of posts about his jackassedness. Let God be the judge of him. Anyway, seems like we worry about the speck in someone else's eye (I am bad for that a lot of times myself admittedly) than the beam in our own eye. If people would put 1/10 as much energy into something positive (in this case, help with Haitian or other relief effort, or at least support those that do, or help out in one's own neighborhood, lots of suffering here in America, too) as they do dissing old Pat, untelling what could be accomplished.
Why? We are just calling and a spade a spade. He could have been Tiger Woods, Charles Barkley, David Letterman or anyone else in the public eye who has done or said something stupid, however, this guy said something EXTREMELY ignorant and insensitive in the wake of a monumental tragedy that befell a people.
There are quite a bit of people out there, who know no better, some, his followers and some are just other Christians OR Christianity influenced folks who actually either believe his statement or express something similar. On the bottom line, they say the same thing. They claim that god just and judges sin and since Haiti was clobbered and god is in control, Haitians must have done something wrong to deserve it Pat Robertson just happened to fill in the blanks. Just next door, we have some [universalist] Christian over there claiming that because EVERYONE will be "saved" in the end, god just did what he had to do but there should be no great weeping going on because all those Haitians are going to be saved in the next life.
I love that cheesy grin on that smiley face. Nice. Have a great evening.
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