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Robertson, You Are a Disgrace to Patricks Everywhere

If you have a pulse, you know that an estimated fifty- to one hundred- thousand people died in Haiti this week.

What deaths have already occurred were caused by the combination of a massive earthquake and dilapidated infrastructure, and what deaths have yet to occur will be attributable in part to lack of medical infrastructure in the impoverished country.

At least that's what people subject to the virulent message of mainstream media think. Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson is not one of those people. His liberation from the chains of reality allows him to see the quake as a "blessing in disguise," because it is punishment for Haiti's "pact with the devil" and an opportunity for them to come to God:

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, 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.

Link here.

Pat Robertson is right about one thing. He is right that I don't want to talk about "Napoleon III, or whatever." I want to talking about helping those people, about international aid, and about saving what lives we can.

In the meantime, three words for Mr. Robertson: go to hell.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).