http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Robertson+blames+Haitian+earthquake+pact+with+devil+asks+donations/2438448/story.html
U.S. television evangelist Pat Robertson has, perhaps predictably, run to the TV cameras once more, hot on the heels of a global tragedy, and blamed that tragedy on the godlessness of the nation it has struck.
Not content with having once called Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Methodists the "spirit of the antichrist," referring to China's policy of compulsory abortions as "doing what they have to do," and calling Scotland a "dark land" teeming with homosexuals - and fresh off having called for the assassination of Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez - Robertson simply couldn't help but aim his billy club at Haiti, even as rescue workers attempted to dig bodies out of the rubble.
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it ... They were under the heel of the French, you know, Napoleon III and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story,” the aging preacher said on his weekly TV show on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
As his sidekick Christy looked on and nodded, Robertson continued, "And so the devil said, ‘Okay, it’s a deal ... But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
Apparently the entire population of the island nation got together, had a meeting with the devil, signed a really big contract and the horned one said, "Sure, I'm hiring. Can you start Monday?"
True story.
The history lesson continued, "And they kicked the French out, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free, and ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other, desperately poor."
He soon switched to geography and economics; "The Island of Hispaniola is one island cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti, on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty, same Islands. They need to have, and we need to pray for them, a great turning to God."
Robertson has been previously pilloried for defending the brutal Liberian government administration of Charles Taylor, who was subsequently indicted for war crimes by the UN and has been accused of harbouring al Queda terrorists.
Robertson was investigated by the Commonwealth of Virginia's Office of Consumer Affairs, which determined that he had "willfully induced contributions from the public through the use of misleading statements and other implications" when he asked for support for Rwandan refugees, but used the money to airlift mining equipment from the diamond mines he had started with Zaire dictator Mobuto Sese Seko.
The OCA called for him to be criminally prosecuted, but Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley declined that request. Earley's biggest single contributor in his run for office was Robertson.
Robertson ended his Christian Broadcasting Network broadcast on the topic of the Haitian earthquake by asking viewers to send donations for his Haitian relief effort.
True story.
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Another church leader not being "Christ-like" at all. Very sad. I don't get how they feel they have authority to judge others and can justify being hypocrites?? I stopped going to church for this very reason. Whatever happened to just loving people?? Not only loving them if they go to your church or are doing something to benefit YOU?!?
I will pray for Pat Robertson.. The man surely needs it....
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