"Pact to the devil"
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| Wed, 01-13-2010 - 4:05pm |
To be clear, I'm sharing this *not to bash or poke fun at any particular religion, but to shine light on an *individual, Pat Robertson, whose broadcasting network is carried in hundreds of countries and whose political influence has been considerable (incl. re: laws effecting families like mine):
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Pat Robertson: Haiti 'Cursed' By 'Pact To The Devil'
Televangelist Pat Robertson said Wednesday that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has been "cursed" by a "pact to the devil."
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said on Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club." "They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or 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. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal."
Robertson said that "ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other" and he contrasted Haiti with its neighbor, the Dominican Republic.
"That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle; on the one side is Haiti on the other is the Dominican Republic," he said. "Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to god and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable."
(this, and video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html )

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Thank you Satan for clearing-up Robertson's misconception.
"In 1982 God did not, as it turned out, end the world."
Are you sure?
"There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already
happened."---Douglass Adams
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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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Excellent posts...and I love the quote by Douglass Adams!
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I'm generally of the opinion that men like Robertson just like to scare up bucks, and most of the time, they're projecting.
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