Pat Robertson: Haiti cursed by pact with devil

[buttmunch]

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 heal of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. 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, 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 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 meed 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."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html

Video of the crazy at the link. I can't believe anyone would listen to this schmuck but sadly, they do.

[witchcurlgirl]

Dude is nuts, but he is (albeit, incorrectly) referring to a well known part of Haitian history. Dutty Boukman....but it was animal sacrifice, not satanism. I guess to him voodoo= satanism.

[buttmunch]

Next thing you know Robertson will be asking for a cool million from his base because God said to send it or he'd dddddiiiiieeeee.

Here's a more interesting take on his particular brand of crazy:

Galactically vile Christian cleric Pat Robertson told his CBN viewers today that Haitians are "cursed" because their ancestors "swore a pact with the devil" to liberate themselves from the French in 1804. "True story."

What else would he say? Robertson can't let human suffering pass without finding a way to insinuate that God did it deliberately because he hates gay people, black people, Catholics, or whatever other poor dying sap he can find to cruelly mock and use to his own political and fundraising advantage.

In the wake of 9/11, he hosted Jerry Falwell on his show, The 700 Club, to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ by saying "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way" bore responsibility for the attacks and resulting deaths. Robertson nodded in agreement at his guest, adding that "we have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we've stuck our finger in your eye.... The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America."

After Katrina, Robertson consulted his soothsaying cross and determined that God killed 1,000 or so poor black people because they got too many abortions: "Have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?" He went on to hope that the confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice to the Supreme Court could forestall further carnage.

Pat Robertson is as hateful and seized by superstition as any Taliban mullah with a knot in his forehead from obsessively banging it into a prayer mat. The motivation for this latest proclamation is no doubt the fact that about half the people in Haiti practice voodoo, an amalgam of Catholicism and African animism that dates to the importation of West African slaves there in the 16th century, and that was common to the slaves who whose uprising against their French owners eventually became the Haitian Revolution. For a more nuanced explication Haiti's Satanic provenance—"Government Of The Devil, By The Devil, And For The Devil"—go here.

So because the people of Haiti practice a different religion from Robertson—about which everything he knows he learned from watching The Serpent and the Rainbow—it follows that their historic liberation in a bloody war must have been the result of a negotiation with a malevolent supernatural being who intervenes in worldly affairs. And every tragedy that has befallen their ancestors since has been deliberately directed at them by an all-powerful and loving god who wants to kill them, repeatedly, because they gained freedom by striking a deal with his enemy.

Who's the fucking witch doctor?Pat Robertson: Thousands Died Because Haitian Slaves 'Swore a Pact with the Devil' for Their Freedom - Pat Robertson - Gawker

[twitchy2.0]

Pat Robertson for Death Pool 2010.

[witchcurlgirl]

I thought he was dead till I saw this.

[buttmunch]

You might be thinking of Oral Roberts...remember the 'Lining up for Oral' headline? Still makes me laugh.

[witchcurlgirl]

No, I'm just thinking these old bastards have been around for so long, they all should be dead by now.

[MohandasKGanja]

Robertson—about which everything he knows he learned from watching The Serpent and the Rainbow

Or "Live and Let Die".....

[witchcurlgirl]

[nana55]

I believe most of Haiti (80%) is catholic

[witchcurlgirl]

The Haitians obviously need Daniel Webster to plead for rescission of the pact with the devil. I believe Robertson was probably a classmate of Webster’s.