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God Dislikes Slavery Unless Its Black People
I could not believe my ears when I heard Pat Robinson say on his 700 Club television program that Hatti made a pact with the Devil and that is why Haiti is suffering now , so in other words any one who assists Haiti is going against God's will.
"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."
Being a person of faith and a believer in God's Love and Grace I find it abhorrent that a well paid conservative so called Christian is using a terrible tragedy like yesterday's earth quake to some how blame the victim , and use his warped opinion of God's judgment, thus doing more to alienate people from his so called faith.
What.. Not Enough Righteous People ?
Pat Robertson ideology and his perceived Christian belief in God's word which he claims to represent. If one reads the book of Genesis chapter 18 it is a story where the Hebrew patriarch Abraham's is an ombudsman or intercessor on the behalf of the city of Sodom with whom God was displeased and informed Abraham he was going to judge the city for it's wickedness , wanting to save his nephew Lot and his family Abraham and God struck a deal.
Through out the chapter Abraham pleads with God not to destroy Sodom and he bargained with God to not destroy the city if 45 righteous people could be found, Abraham was afraid that he could not find that many, therefore he asked God if he would settle for ten. God agreed and told Abraham he would spare the city of Sodom from his judgment if only 10 righteous people could be found.
Using this scriptural reference to examine Pat Robertson thinking regarding Gods judgment, why would God spare Sodom over one mans intercession and judge America on 9/11 , New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with Hurricane Katrina and now Haiti? when I am sure there are multitudes of Righteous people who prayed and interceded for America or Haiti before any of these catastrophes took place.
Pat Robertson Apocalyptic History
Referring to 9-11
"Don't ask why did it happen. It happened because people are evil. It also happened because God is lifting His protection from this nation and we must pray and ask Him for revival so that once again we will be His people," Pat Robertson response to 9/11
http://www.patrobertson.com/pressreleases/terroristattack.asp
Referring to Katrina
On the September 1 broadcast of The 700 Club, Robertson also claimed that, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Roberts can "be thankful that a tragedy has brought him some good," inasmuch as Democratic senators may be less likely to question him aggressively.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200509130004
Both of these former tragedies were also blamed on Gods angry judgment against those Innocent people who's lives were taken by tragic events and I would venture to say many of those who died in each of these tragedies were believers in the so called same Jesus as Pat claims to serve and worship.
Haiti Struggle for Independence is Evil but America's is God Ordained.
This online article titled God, Satan, and the Birth of Haiti by
Jean R. Gelin, Ph.D taken from the web site Black and Christian .Com
Explaining Haiti
Right or wrong, Haiti is considered the point of entry of Christianity into the New World because it is the place where Christopher Columbus built the first Spanish colony after landing on December 5th, 1492. Roman Catholicism was the official religion of Spain, and thus was imposed on all the original inhabitants of the island. The natives were made Christians by force and the island was called ‘Hispaniola’, meaning ‘little Spain’. Before long the Indian population was enslaved and wiped out, and Africans were imported as replacements. But that’s not all.
Haiti is the only place in the world where revolutionary African slaves successfully ended slavery and colonialism to build a new and independent country. All this happened when Jean-Jacques Dessalines, his Generals, along with the indigenous army, proclaimed Haiti’s independence from France on January 1st, 1804. On that day, they rejected the colonial name ‘Saint-Domingue’ and reclaimed the Indian name Haiti (Ayiti1) for the country.
Seeks to offer some explanation as to the lie that was made up by racist religious leaders or missionaries who sought to bring disdain on the freed people of Haiti because former slaves could not be freed with God's help only the devil would help the black slaves. This co insides with the lie of the curse of Ham and the Mormon belief that God cursed the black race.
The worst part of the whole picture is that the story is believed by many sincere Christians in America and around the world; and not only do they believe it, they also spread it as fact. The tragedy of our age is that repeated lies are often mistaken for the truth, especially when repeated long enough. That’s particularly the case in religious circles where faith on the part of the audience is generally expected, but that should never be so for those who believe in the Bible.
Maybe, believers need to return to biblical texts like 1 Thessalonians 5:21, “Test everything. Hold on to the good”.
It’s hard to know where the idea of a divine curse on Haiti following the purported satanic pact actually originated, whether from foreign missionaries or from local church leaders.http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-10-05.shtml
Bottom Line
Dr.Jean R. Gelin, along with most of the civilized cognitive thinking adults in the year 2010 can see that Pat Robertson is an intellectual dwarf and it should be obvious that the notion that Haiti is a nation that is cursed comes form some antiquated superstitious lie that was birthed during the days of the colonial slave trade and it should remain there for the rest of eternity never to raise it's ugly racist head again .
Kevin Thomas
