US televangelist Pat Robertson has been on TV calling the Haiti earthquake a "blessing in disguise" for destroying so many buildings and leaving the nation with no choice but to rebuild.
He also claims the earthquake is God's curse on the Haitian people, for making a pact with the Devil in the 19th century to drive the French out.
Some of what he said, together with a video of his comments, can be found here.
Robertson was in trouble a couple of years ago for his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It seems he just doesn't learn.
What an awful man. He is 2010's first Imperator Fish Hall of Shame inductee.
Friday, January 15, 2010
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On the premiss that every devil deserves an advocate;
ReplyDeleteBrother Pat is speaking from what he knows.
The heathen scholar Professor Dawkins, (who I used to quite like, but since he's become trendy. meh. I don't actually like his stuff so much. Could just be I'm a snob though), makes a pretty big error in one argument that he makes.
Dawkins claims that monotheists are just atheists about one less god than him. It's a nice argument, especially rhetorically, but it's wrong for the likes of Brother Pat, who are the very ones Dawkins has the most dislike for.
Pat believes in lots of gods. They are the ones that he has not before his God. They may not be 'true gods', being just 'the devil playing tricks', but that's just propaganda on his God's part; and his heart, Pat knows this.
So when a group of slaves have a ceremony out in a jungle, praying for their god to save them and destroy their enemy, naming their enemy's god (Pat's god), as pitiless and an evil tempter, that's some bad stuff. Especially when they go on to eventually beat said enemy, and by extension Pat's God. That must be the devil, and by definition it can only be a phyrric victory; Pat's God must have really won.
It's a war out there, and wars need their propagandists. He's no different from Baghdad Bob really.
Here's that prayer the slaves prayed to their god:
The god who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The god who holds up the ocean; who makes the thunder roar. Our God who has ears to hear. You who are hidden in the clouds; who watch us from where you are. You see all that the white has made us suffer. The white man’s god asks him to commit crimes. But the god within us wants to do good. Our god, who is so good, so just, He orders us to revenge our wrongs. It’s He who will direct our arms and bring us the victory. It’s He who will assist us. We all should throw away the image of the white men’s god who is so pitiless. Listen to the voice for liberty that speaks in all our hearts.
Robertson is not just a hateful man. He is a man which every American political hopeful of most factions sucks up to, and who has had a major influence on American domestic and foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteAnother good reason not to go there, literally or figuratively!