Is it just me, or has the fine line between religion and pure insanity gone a blur once more?
In light of pat Robertson's statements, there lays just the slightest bit of nonsense. There's many lines in biblical scripture that speak of every act of slavery a sin. Wasn't it Moses himself who freed his people from slavery, therefore setting an unprecedented moral analog to all monotheists who follow Judeo-Christian lineage have respect for all fellow men? So explain to me then, how come the black Hatians are in the wrong, and the French overlords who enslaved them are right? How do you sign a deal with the devil to actually end the reign of hypocrisy?
I have only one thing to say, Mr. Robertson: Your logic has no actual logic. None at all. To think that a nation with 80% poverty rates and a strong rate of 97% of the nation being very prominent Catholics, could actually have any reason to call upon the devil to improve the conditions above a despot state. Well, naturally devil worship was the first thing to my mind too! How silly.
I think abolishing the reign of their overlords in France in 1803 should be something that every free, democratic nations should be very proud of. A constant struggle of the Haitians and the uprising of the slaves to create the first independent nation in the latin and Caribbean should be admired. Haiti was the first nation in the new world to abolish slavery AND have the blacks maintaining most of the power ever. To me, that's an act of God, not the devil. And doesn't this sound very much like the rise of the Holy Roman Empire when the shackles of the ancient ways were shattered and the "Gold Age" of Christianity begun?
I think, rather, instead of defining the situation as divine punishment, I would consider it an act of volcanology that just hit the wrong place at the wrong time. Haiti has had it's problems trying to formulate itself to be more progressive and stable, but that's nothing to do with god, but everything to do with the fact that some places function better than others. Sometimes what works isn't the answer.
If Robertson is the true Christian he so boldly proclaims to be, he should try harder to pray for the survival of the trapped and lost. He should be down helping doctors; giving away a portion of his massive worth to give food, water and medicine for people who are dying from simple infections. I don't have much to give, but the check for ten dollars and a candle I light for the lost and dead would be far more respected than the cold shoulder and evil words that man has spoken.
Namaste, my friends in Haiti. May god be with you all.