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Recently, a tragedy occurred in Haiti killing anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 thousand people – and counting. The devastating 7.0 earthquake nearly leveled the capital, leaving the impoverished country, and its shaky government, in shambles.
As we watch the reports of the frantic survivors clawing and digging at the rubble in a desperate search for their loved ones, some of us stop and ask “why?”
Though, there are those few fine patriotic Christians who stop to ask, “why not?”
Enter Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh to give us some much-needed insight into this matter.
You may know Robertson as the mouthpiece for The 700 Club, a religious program involved in sex scandals, financial fraud and hate speech.
Robertson himself is involved in several shady business deals, believes that Christians should rule the world by divine right and has prayed to God for the death of Supreme Court justices on national television.
So, right away, you know we’re dealing with a real straight shooter.
Deciding to further embarrass Christians with asinine ramblings, Robertson went on his program Jan. 13 and said that the natural disaster was the result of a Haitian pact with the devil.
“And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” said Robertson, who was apparently present at the time to hear the prince of darkness casually seal the business deal.
Robertson’s summation of the Haitian people seems odd, however.
From this account, one would gather that the island is full of animal sacrificing, devil worshiping heathens.
Actually, according to countrystudies.us, the national religion for Haiti is Catholicism, and more than 80 percent of Haitians consider themselves practicing Catholics.
So, if Haiti is mostly Catholic, and Haiti is full of people serving Satan, then Catholics must, if not worship, at least “serve” Satan. That would mean that Pat Robertson is also in league with Lucifer because he signed the “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” document in 1994, which is a bureaucratic effort to bind the two religions together.
Thank you, Pat, for trying to warn us about yourself. I think I’ll take a page from your own political strategy guide and pray to God for your death.
Then there’s Rush - the racist, misogynistic drug addict who, for some sadistic reason, still has a talk show.
Limbaugh somehow found time between Klan meetings and devouring his safari-sized meals to weigh in on this terrible tragedy, telling his listeners not to donate to the Haiti relief fund and trying to turn this catastrophe into racist political ploy.
“This will play right into Obama’s hands,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “He’s humanitarian, compassionate. They’ll use this to burnish their, shall we say, “credibility” with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It’s made-to-order for them. That’s why he couldn’t wait to get out there, could not wait to get out there.”
He added later, when a caller asked him about donating, “We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
Thanks again to Rush and Pat for showing us that no matter how large the scale of human suffering and death, there’s always room to push your own self-serving agenda and to generally be an ass.
You’ve set the bar pretty high, gentlemen. I just hope you get everything you deserve for accomplishing such a feat.
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