Robertson: Haiti Deserved It
We awoke this morning to the stupefying news that as many as a half million people lost their lives in yesterday’s massive 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, according to one Haitian senator.
Whether or not that unimaginable number is accurate remains to be seen, but eyewitness accounts on the scene suggest the number of dead will rise well into six figures.
The AP report pictures a living hell on earth: “Bodies were visible all around the hilly city: under rubble, lying beside roads, being loaded into trucks. Scattered bodies were laid out on sidewalks, wrapped neatly in sheets and blankets. Voices cried out from the rubble.” The Washington Post adds the following description: “Untold numbers of people remained trapped under the rubble of once-grand buildings, makeshift shacks, historic gingerbread homes and cinder-block structures. Caked in the flour-white dust of crushed plaster and cement, Haitians dug out family members by hand and piled bodies on street corners, as clusters of bloodied and dazed survivors pleaded for help.”
Medical treatment is for most people non-existent. There is but one functioning hospital left in Port Au Prince run by the Argentine government. As of this morning, it had treated more than 800 patients — a comparative drop in the bucket considering what is needed.
Democrat Representative John Conyers of Michigan is organizing a Congressional delegation to visit Haiti. But that’s really just a photo-op aimed at helping Democrats in November, particularly Conyers.
Unless he is bringing a shovel to help dig out survivors, Conyers and his entourage will just get in the way. Haiti is already awash in useless government officials, many needing digging out themselves.
As many as 150 officials of the UN mission in Haiti remain missing. The UN headquarters there was totally destroyed. Additionally, it is estimated that between 40,000 and 45,000 Americans live in Haiti. Thousands are still missing and unaccounted for. The presidential palace collapsed. So did a number of churches. The Vatican’s Archbishop of Haiti, Joseph Serge Miot died in the earthquake, along with a number of clergy.
Worse, the Haitian national penitentiary also collapsed, freeing thousands of escaping inmates. President Obama was there with offers of US aid, as were the leaders of almost every major nation in the world.
In the meantime, ordinary people were struggling to come to grips with the spiritual implications of the disaster, seeking guidance from their spiritual leaders. “How could this have happened?” many seekers wailed. “Where was God in all this?” Our own Pat Robertson was ready with just the answer the world was looking for.
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel 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. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.”
Perfect. God did it because Haiti sold its soul to the devil. So I guess there’s no point in turning to Him for help.
Assessment:
According to Scripture the last days will be marked by apostasy — and growing animosity towards the people of God and all things Christian. The persecution of Christians in the last days will be predicated by the same emotions that were behind the persecution of the Christians of the first century. The charges under which Christians of the 1st century were persecuted were hate crimes. The Romans, not understanding what the early Christians were teaching, accused them of hate speech.
The Bible indicates that will be the same charge to be leveled against Christians by the antichrist — that the Christians are teaching hatred. Where would anybody get the idea that Christianity is a hateful religion and that Christian speech is hate speech? From Christians like Pat Robertson. Robertson could well be the poster-boy for the coming persecution. Anytime somebody might start to wonder if rounding up Christians was the right thing to do, all they’d have to do is look at a picture of Pat Robertson.
At various times, Robertson has advocated political assassinations, most recently against Hugo Chavez. Once, while railing against the US State Department, he stunned his audience with this helpful suggestion: “Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up.”
When the city of Dover, Pennsylvania voted to replace the school board because they refused to teach evolution, Robertson offered this ex cathedra pronouncement:
“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don’t wonder why he hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that’s the case, don’t ask for his help because he might not be there.”
And lest Robertson be accused of taking things just a wee bit over the top, we have this:
“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.”
Robertson once even prayed for the liberal members of the Supreme Court to die so that righteous judges could be appointed in their places.
“Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.”
It is probable to the point of certainty that the liberal justices on the Supreme Court whose deaths Robertson was praying for were not Christians. So what Robertson was praying for was the condemnation of both body and soul. As Christians, our obligation is to be Christ-like. I am trying to find an instance where Jesus condemned the innocent or prayed for the guilty to die in their sins.
That isn’t to say that Jesus didn’t speak out against the evils of His era. But Jesus was qualified to render such judgments — He had no sin of his own. The judgments being pronounced by Pat Robertson are not God’s judgments, they are Pat Robertson’s — but they are disguised as God’s.
One might think the Hatian earthquake could be a judgment from God, just as one might think the Christmas tsnumani in Asia was a judgment from God. But only God knows if it was a judgment — and only God knows why such judgment was rendered. Pat Robertson doesn’t know. A non-Christian who hears Robertson blame the earthquake on Haiti selling its national soul to the devil doesn’t necessarily think Robertson is nuts. He assumes that is what most Christians believe.
That we applaud devastating killer earthquakes. That we cheer on tsunamis against Buddhist Asia. That we approve of murder in the name of political expediency. That we’re so frustrated with the political process that the best way to adjust our foreign policy is to nuke the State Department. That Orlando will be struck by hurricanes, terrorist bombs, earthquakes, and possibly even a meteor because of ‘Gay Days’ at Disneyworld.
So tomorrow, or the next day, or next week, you will offer the Gospel to somebody and you will find yourself explaining Pat Robertson, not Jesus Christ. And in defending the Lord, you’ll sound like you’re defending Pat Robertson. And since Pat Robertson is clearly nuts, that’s how you’re going to look by the time you are finished. The day is coming when they will start rounding up Christians — Scripture is clear on that.
And that is when we’re going to wish we’d spoken out a little more forcefully when Pat Robertson claimed to be speaking out on God’s behalf.
- Written by Jack Kinsella, and reposted from www.omegaletter.com
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HE NEED TO GO BACK AND READ HIS BIBLE…… SHAME ON PAT ROBERTSON!!!!
- Jackie Richardson (re-posted from facebook.com/cloudtenpictures)
a true christian stands behind the only truth the word of God and yes we all do deserve the same judgement..we think more highly of ourselves then we should. He has a right to voice his opinion just as we are using our rights to either agree or disagree with him…let’s move on!!!!!!
- Debra Spence (re-posted from Facebook)
He seems to have forgotten that he’s not God!
- Carolyn Abbett (re-posted from Facebook)
Pat robertson is the antichrist he must be over thrown and sent back 2 HELL Human life is precious and should never be destroyed or wasted
- Michael Bane Webb (re-posted from Facebook)
Pat Robertson never said that as you said “Haiti deserved it”. I don’t agree with what Robertson said, but that doesn’t make it right to misquote him either.
- Mark Arthur Douglass (re-posted from Facebook)
I’m not a fan of Robertson, but I am behind him 100% on this issue. YES, Haiti deserved this. Haiti deserved it and the rest of the world deserves it, too. God’s anger burns against those who reject Him. When the Israelites rejected God, he cursed them and allowed all sorts of calamities to happen to His chosen people so that they would turn back to Him. I pray that the Haitians will see their deep and desperate need for God’s forgiveness and salvation, reject their pagan practices, and turn to Jesus Christ. I pray that the rest of the world would do the same before they, too, get what they so richly deserve.
- Jason Hubred (re-posted from Facebook)
Pat Robertson is a believer in Jesus and that makes him a child of God. He has done much good in the name of Christ. However, we must remember that all the good can become lost when our mouths speak outside of God. What he said was foolishness that cannot be substantiated anywhere in God’s Word. God loves Haiti and its people. If this were not true, our nation would have suffered far worse than Haiti. Pat, please think and PRAY before speaking again!
- Jeffrey Shumac (re-posted from Facebook)
People of the world want to believe that God just loves us all and we can do whatever we want ! God gave us “HIS, GOD`S”, not ours, not Moses`, “GOD`s” 10 COMMANDMENTS. Hello, anybody out there ? Who are u to say that this isn`t an act of God ? Remember, He is God. He allowed this to happen. Why ? He hasn`t said …… yet.
- Pamela Currley (re-posted from Facebook)
PAT ROBERTSON SPOKE THE TRUTH-IF A NATION DELIBERATELY TURNS THEIR BACK ON GOD, CALAMITY WILL FOLLOW. That does not mean that God loves them any less. Jesus died for everyone. Many times through tragedy people turn back to God. This may be one of those times and Gods people will always be sent by God into those calamities to extend the loving hand of the living Lord Jesus.
- Charlotte Boyler (re-posted from Facebook)
Why on earth would you ‘stir up strife’, Cloud Ten?
I think people like to grumble, complain and argue for NO reason.
WE ALL deserve nothing but death and destruction! God said so!
If the US were hit with the same catastrophe, we would DESERVE it! Look how many unborn children are murdered in our great country everyday. God is not going to allow that and homosexuality to continue without the consequences.
Get real people……Get off the throwing stones at PR wagon. Jason H. has it right. … See More
- Jennifer Archuleta (re-posted from Facebook)
Yes God loves everyone…even the lost! Even if someone made a pact with the devil, God would never leave them or forsake them!
- Kathleen Williams (re-posted from Facebook)
Aren`t you all doing exactly what you`re accusing Mr.Robertson of ? Don`t you all see,… this is an obvious DISTRACTION, caused by you know who ! Satan. So, having said that, go help the Haitians. Pray for THEM, give money , do something other than taking the time to let Satan stir of anger in you all. Praying for you.You all need to say to Satan, “I`m not impressed !” Now get going on your praying and giving, and, ask God for your forgiveness.
- Pamela Curley (re-posted from Facebook)
Who am I to judge//condem. Judge not lest ye be judged. How can you remove the speck from someone else’s eye when you have a log in your own. That’s all I plan to say.
- Roberta Williams (re-posted from Facebook)
As I recall, God has disciplined the Isralites many times to pull them back to him. We don’t not know God’s thoughts, we do know he is in charge of all creation.
I do know God’s glory can shine from this, maybe instead of focusing on his comments we can pray for the people of Haiti in coming to the Lord.
How do must of come to the Lord, through trial and hardships.
- Kellie Clarke (re-posted from Facebook)
I certainly understand Jack’s frustration…when a prominent believer makes those kinds of statements, it does cause non-believers to lump us all in with that person. And, i don’t see what was written as a judgment of Pat Robertson. No question his ministry has done a lot of good all over the world – including in Haiti – but he does still need to be held accountable when he makes those kinds of statements – just as we all should be.
The statements made by Pat Robertson were certainly contreversial – they may be correct, or they may be incorrect. That really isn’t the issue. I think it’s the timing of the statements that have caused the uproar.
Regardless of where any of stand on the statements Pat made or the response by Jack Kinsella ion his blog – one thing is certain – the country of Haiti is devestated, and in desperate need of help – let’s not get so wrapped up arguing about this and blind ourselves to that fact.
- Jason Pearson (re-posted from Facebook)
I love this article. As for all the animosity here, just remeber that Christians are supposed to follow Christ — not Robertson or any other mortal who says he speaks for God. There’s ONE way to the Lord, and that’s through Jesus. If you still don’t get it — just try and think WWJD (What would Jesus do?). It’s as simple as that.
- Rick Masters (re-posted from Facebook)
I disagree with Jack on this one. It so disappoints me when Christians twist the words of other Christians in this manner.
- Vickie Heffner-Moore (re-posted from Facebook)
1Chron 7:14, “If My people, who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sin and will HEAL THEIR LAND.”
This doesn’t only apply to Haiti.