Many Americans remember a time when Pat Robertson was a relevant figure in several public arenas – political, charismatic, figurehead, and televangelist.
Now, like many so-called Christian egomaniacs who preceded him – Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts and Jerry Falwell, just as a start – shows himself to be an ignorant bigot and hypocrite.
Robertson has made the news by proclaiming that the earthquake in Haiti, which has killed innumerable people and devastated a devastatingly poor country, was decreed by God because the Haitians had signed a pact with the devil. They are now, he said, paying the price for turning their back on God.
“They are cursed,” he said on his television program. “They signed a pact with the devil.”
Beyond the fact that Haiti is mostly Christian, Robertson emphatically stated that Haiti broke free from France under Napoleon III, who came to power in 1850's. A simple Google search pointed to the fact that Haiti broke free from France in 1804.
On top of that all, Robertson proclaimed the country sharing the island with Haiti, the Dominican Republic, is prosperous and well off. Has he ever been there? There are pockets of affluence in the Dominican Republic, but for the most part, poverty is a way of life there.
Forget the ignorance. Forget the bigotry. Forget that he has not a clue about what he proclaims. Let’s say, just for the sake of discourse, that God did cause the earthquake down in Haiti to “pay (the Godless Haitians) back” for some slight or error in judgment.
So, Pat, if God is punishing Haitians by throwing an earthquake at them, what do you say about a tornado that razes a Southern Baptist church in Alabama in which 10 parishioners die?
Regardless of what you believe, on which side of the political aisle you lean, or your personal religious beliefs, this ancient wacko’s vitriolic spital should be disavowed.
God help the Haitians. Don't waste your time on people like Robertson, who thinks they are ordained by God’s to turn bovine excrement into truisms.
