Pat Robertson cites deal with the devil
as reason for Haiti quake
By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 14, 2010
Former United States Presidential candidate and Conservative right wing televangelist Pat Robertson is clearly going further off his religious rocker. It could possibly be that neuron-devouring plaque is now invading the far-right side of his brain. Whatever it is, it is more than disturbing.
Wednesday on his cable TV Christian Broadcasting Network, the loopy Robertson, chatting with his co-sidekick told viewers,
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, uh, you know, Napoleon the third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil, they said, we will serve you, if you get us free from the Prince, true story.
True story folks! More outrageous details on the pact with the devil bedtime story in the incredible video above. What is even more frightening than Rev. Robertson is that a substantial national audience never misses his story time, and seems to love his deluded, outrageous claims.
He has also been reverently supported by the hard-core remnants of the Republican Party leadership who seemingly have no problem with his twisted delusional language.
Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands are reported to have been killed in the violent, damaging quake. Untold thousands with untreated broken limbs and other grave injuries are without help with existing emergency resources depleted. Reports from those there say the disaster is indescribable. The dead, just 24 hours after the quake, are stacked in the streets.
Robertson’s devoted, responsive audience could have been immediately urged to invoke their Christianity and donate generously, not to the 700 Club, but directly to international aid agencies to speed direct help to the devastated Haitians. Instead he told his viewers that the 7.0 magnitude earthquake was a Faustian payoff for the poor souls in Haiti whom, he clearly suggests, had it coming for Haiti’s “deal with the devil.”
Sweet Jesus . . . .
[Retired journalist Larry Ray is a Texas native and former Austin television news anchor. He also posts at The iHandbill.]
Sometimes I wish there really was a pitchfork-toting Devil and a red hot Hell so that Pat and his ilk could go there when they die.
I think Pat is in for a very, very bad surprise!
Pretty sickening stuff from a sad, pathetic man.
Yes, Pat is the kook (well one of several kooks) that conservatives hope will soon loose the power of speech 🙂 But as always, stupidity knows no political party boundaries.
In a stroke of brilliance that is sure to enhance her chances in a majority catholic state like MA, Martha Coakley (sounds like Croak ly doesn’t it?) had this to say yesterday [if you object to abortion and are a devout Catholic then], “You probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.” This gal has a bigger tin ear than even Harry “make sure they are light skinned negroes” Reid does.