Over 100,000 people are feared dead in Haiti, and aid cannot come fast enough.
Tele-evangelist Pat Robertson claims that Haiti had it coming because they made a "pact with the devil."
I'd like to think of myself as an intelligent person. I usually can grasp the most complex of theories and what not, but I have gone through this "Robertson" logic and can still make no sense of it, perhaps you can help:
"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 ... 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 the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,'..ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
???
Robertson isn't the first to throw the 'they had it coming' line. When a devastating earthquake hit China in 2008, Sharon Stone piped up to say that it was all just a case of 'bad karma.' At a red carpet event, Sharon took time out of her self- indulgent day to grace us all with her words of wisdom:
"The Chinese have not been very nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a very good friend of mine... Then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened and I thought is that karma? When you're not nice, that the bad things happen to you?"
50 years old, and she sounds like she's still in kindergarten. Incidentally, I have also come across 5 year olds who have a more heightened sense of moral consciousness than Mr. Robertson.
However, I don't know what is more troubling: the fact that these people have a voice, or that there are hoards of people who agree with them.
But hey, apparently its all going to be OK, because Danni Minogue is pregnant and Kylie is just overjoyed.
*slaps forehead*
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