According to Praise the Lord Pat, Haiti has been "cursed" because of its "pact with the devil" throughout history. Well, at least he isn't blaming climate change.
You have to laugh. Robertson has the amazing ability to distill every human tragedy into a sermon on evil, even when it's the innocent who are victimized. I'd love to know how the victims of the quake, including Haiti's dead Roman Catholic archbishop, parlayed any pact with the devil into such allegedly divinely deserved retribution.
I just spoke to a client whose uncle was trapped under three tons of rubble. The odds that any Haitians committed a sin so heinous that they deserved to live in the crumbling and ravaged remains of their third-world homes are zero.
The real reason that Haiti is in the eye of yet another storm is because of its geography, numbing poverty and generations of corruption and misgovernment.
But what really frosts me are all those folks out there who are trying to equate the words of this false prophet with the religion that I profess - and treasure.
Like the critic at Salon who writes: "Pat Robertson's language is the reductio ad absurdum of the Christian right."
Really? I'm Christian and conservative, but I don't recall hiring him as my press agent.
Just as all pro-lifers were unjustly portrayed as accessories in the assassination of George Tiller, whose murderer Scott Roeder is currently on trial in Kansas, Robertson is being portrayed as some kind of poster boy for the faithful.
And while I'm sure he's done some good in his lifetime, and even though I know he's sending millions of dollars in medicine and relief workers to Haiti, he's hardly the face of modern Christianity.
