Anyone who has not heard the Pat Robertson Haiti quotes yet is lucky to have protected themselves from such remarks. Human beings really should have evolved beyond making such devastating statements so hurtful to fellow humans.
The quake news from Haiti continues to roll in, but sporadically and uncertainly and without verification. The Haiti death tolls that are being guesstimated are all over the map, ranging from the very broad hundreds of thousands, to one hundred thousand and now down to fifty thousand. The only good news in all of this is that the statistics are trending lower. Do lower death tolls signify a weakening correlation with the influence of the devil? Pat Robertson would have to be consulted about that. Even Rush Limbaugh might have some insight.
It is interesting that the more that is reported from Haiti and the more that is uncovered regarding the historic aspects of Robertson's remarks, the more solid the evidence that his statements were not only hurtful and demeaning, but they were simply wrong and not founded on truth. One would think that an individual who holds himself to be a leader of the Christian religion would be much more careful about checking his facts in order to make untruthful statements.
Voodoo, with all of its notoriety and apparently false reputation for being an evil religion does not have the power to be so hurtful as a few statements from a self appointed leader of the “good” Christian faith. Let’s all endeavor to change the channels and quickly flip the pages whenever we hear Pat Robertson’s name mentioned.
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