Pat Robertson: The Devil Made Me Do It

Pat Robertson. Remember him? He's the guy who spent years begging for donations to help the poor in Africa, and then used the cargo planes hired for the effort to ship military supplies to the violent rebels in several countries, in return for blood diamonds, on which he made a huge personal profit. Yet still he continues to be a major figure in the Christian right.









Pat in person. Makes Hannah Arendt look pretty perceptive, huh?


Now, from the lofty moral eminence which he has earned through such behavior, he has given us his wisdom on the recent earthquake in Haiti. From the New York Daily News:

"The Rev. Pat Robertson is offering his own absurd explanation for why a quake hit Haiti: Many years ago, the island's people "swore a pact to the devil."

"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," the controversial televangelist said during an interview Wednesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

"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.'"

Robertson continued: "True story. And so the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' They kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got themselves free. Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other."

Well, there it is. From one of the most respected names in the whole world of the Christian right, something which combines idiocy and viciousness in an almost unbelievable fashion.

How can anyone take these people seriously? How can anyone see them as real representatives of the Son of God, for whom they claim to speak? These are evil people, and if there really is a God, and a Satan, I know which side they are really on.