Pat Robertson blames Haiti earthquake on "devil worship"

[Tzadikim]

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nraknWoes)


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. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. 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 so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

What a douchecock. I mean, I know what he said after 9/11, but this is almost worse. It's almost a verbatim justification of imperialism on the basis of Chrstianization.

[FreeFocus]

Even worse, it's not just imperialism, it was slavery.

He's a piece of shit. I don't know what else to say that's appropriate.

[Revy]

well it's no surprise the fundie Christians hate Haiti. Voodoo (rooted in traditional African religion) is a more popular religion there than Christianity, and it's one of the most tolerant countries of the Caribbean when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.

Natural disasters happen in many places, including the white Christendom Pat Robertson idealizes. If anything, these kind of tragedies should show that the loving, paternal God is nowhere, he cannot be found. Epicurus was right about that.

[Robocommie]

well it's no surprise the fundie Christians hate Haiti. Voodoo (rooted in traditional African religion) is a more popular religion there than Christianity, and it's one of the most tolerant countries of the Caribbean when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.

Natural disasters happen in many places, including the white Christendom Pat Robertson idealizes. If anything, these kind of tragedies should show that the loving, paternal God is nowhere, he cannot be found. Epicurus was right about that.

Technically, Voudoun is a synthesis of Christianity and west African beliefs, but yeah. It's naturally going to irk Christian fundamentalists.

[pastradamus]

Pat Robertson is no douchebag. Pat Robertson is Comedy Gold! Seriously the guy must be joking.

[Guerrilla22]

He's an idiot. Same guy that claimed 9/11 happened because of atheists and homosexuals and that Ariel Sharon had a stroke because he decided to remove Jewish settlements from Gaza.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Actually, I watched a 700 Club episode many years ago in which he said this shit. This is nothing new.

[Lodestar]

Even worse, it's not just imperialism, it was slavery.

He's a piece of shit. I don't know what else to say that's appropriate.


Calling Pat Robertson a "piece of shit" is thoroughly and wholly insulting to hunks of shit everywhere. This self-proclaimed "Christian" called for the murder of President Chavez only a few years ago, has proclaimed virtually everyone who disagrees with him to be an agent of the devil himself...and is still on the air. Welcome to America, where the voices of reason are nowhere to be heard, but the loonies get the loudest voice of all. This rabid, spittle-spewing lunatic has predicted doomsday, terror attacks, worldwide disasters, and other such catastrophes...with ZERO PERCENT ACCURACY.

Let's not forget the fact that Mr. Robertson owned diamond mines in Liberia, which led him to support the tyrannical, brutal rule of the corrupt dictator, Charles Taylor. Everything about Mr. Robertson is thoroughly revolting; his brand of theology is some of the most misanthropic, anti-humanist rubbish you could ever encounter. Then again, what should we expect from a born-again Christian who encourages everyone but himself to practice self-denial, mortification of the flesh, and to glorify and appreciate their own suffering and alienation as a consequence of their own sins and nothing else.

EDIT: I've decided to include sources on these claims just in case any comrades are interested in looking into them further.

Robertson's diamond mines in Liberia

^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-17) Sizemore, Bill. "Robertson, Liberian Leader Hope to Strike Gold in Coastal Africa." The Virginian-Pilot. 2 June 1999. ( Copy found at [2] (http://groups.google.com/group/misc.activism.progressive/browse_thread/thread/dca03c4012450e0c/f230a667e3ff73d5).) Charles Taylor...
^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-nationrobertson_18-0) Blumenthal, Max (2005-09-07). "Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash" (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal). The Nation Online. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal. Retrieved 2008-01-19.

Robertson's depraved "end of the world" hysteria...


^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-53) "God is warning of big storms, Robertson says" (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003004452_pat19.html), May 19, 2006, The Associated Press.
^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-54) "Pat Robertson warns of terrorist attack in 2007" (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16442877/), January 2, 2007, MSNBC.com.
^ a (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-FoxNews-Predicts_55-0) b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-FoxNews-Predicts_55-1) "Pat Robertson Predicts Worldwide Violence, U.S. Recession in 2008" (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319728,00.html). Foxnews.com. 2008-01-02. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319728,00.html. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-An_Urgent_Call_To_Prayer_Regarding_Georgia_56-0) "Robertson predicts Mideast disaster and nuclear strikes on America during or shortly after American Election" (http://www.patrobertson.com/pressreleases/PatRobertsonRegardingGeorgia.asp). Patrobertson.com. http://www.patrobertson.com/pressreleases/PatRobertsonRegardingGeorgia.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-26.

Robertson's insane obsession with far-right "New World Order" conspiracy theories (incorporating some anti-semitic ravings a la Protocols of Zion)



^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-11) Don Wilkey, book review of New World Order (http://www.livingston.net/wilkyjr/link26.htm), "A Christian Looks At the Religious Right". Retrieved December 11, 2006.
^ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#cite_ref-12) Ephraim Radner, New world order, old world anti-Semitism — Pat Robertson of the Christian Coalition (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n26_v112/ai_17497869), Christian Century, September 13, 1995. Retrieved December 11, 2006.

Robertson calls for the murder of President Chavez

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4812655

I must admit, however, the intense amount of pity I have for the intellectually comatose hordes that award any amount of respect to this smug, aging, antediluvian, chauvinist, reactionary quack.

Fuck Pat Robertson.

[Prairie Fire]

They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever.

Nice to know that he has done a lot of research.


And they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

All of the millions living in Haiti, presumably, or just a "shadowy cabal?



They said, we will serve you if you'll get us free from the French. True story.


True story without citation.


And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

:lol:.




Natural disasters happen in many places, including the white Christendom Pat Robertson idealizes.


Yeah, but when natural disasters happen in WASP lands, the evangelicals interpret it as Divine punishment for alleged "opposition" to the State of Israel.

Unfortunately,I'm not making this shit up:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1055/1055_01.asp

I think it would be worthwile to commit people to systematically ripping apart the content of Chick tracts (not literally, but with analysis.).

[The Red Next Door]

Oh he just mad because he haven't gotten over the death of his boyfriend jerry and he miss his big dick being up his Christian ass. poor patty miss big dick jerry.:laugh:

[Prairie Fire]

Social, some one has allready confronted you about your homophobic way of striking at Robertson. Stop it, please.

[Winter]

Ya know, it's statements like this that deserve public execution. How much more backward and reactionary can you possibly be?!

[Axle]

Wait, Pat Robertson said something really fucking stupid?!

The guy is a fuck. Anyone who lacks sympathy for another person or community's plight solely based on religion has a useless charred void where their soul should be.

[Antiks72]

Calling Pat Robertson a "piece of shit" is thoroughly and wholly insulting to hunks of shit everywhere.


Yeah. I had to hear about it for 45 minutes from the bowel movement in my toilet this morning. I finally had to flush it just to get it to shut up.

[Robocommie]

Nice to know that he has done a lot of research.

Yeah... but you know the people who listen to him don't really give a damn about that.

[Invincible Summer]

I hope he has multiple large kidney stones that he must pass through his urethra every morning for the rest of his life

[Woyzeck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0

[Le Libérer]

Oh he just mad because he haven't gotten over the death of his boyfriend jerry and he miss his big dick being up his Christian ass. poor patty miss big dick jerry.:laugh:
Verbal warning for sexist language.

[JacobVardy]

OK, if - in a communist society, Cit. Robertson convinces his fellow commune members to sponsor this video - would it be legitimate to censor these comments?

[NecroCommie]

I blame the existence of evil on religious morons. After all, it is them who invented the entire idea.

[Lodestar]

Pat Robertson is no douchebag. Pat Robertson is Comedy Gold! Seriously the guy must be joking.


Robertson is amusing in the same sense that it would be amusing to watch a drunken rodeo clown on LSD drive a steamroller over a basket of kittens. Morbidly fascinating, but once the reality of what you're witnessing sinks in, you are stricken with profound despair.

[Axle]

OK, if - in a communist society, Cit. Robertson convinces his fellow commune members to sponsor this video - would it be legitimate to censor these comments?

Not really. Under Socialism, probably, depending on what remaining reactionary elements still exist...but under Communism the religious right and all it's ilk will have been long ago rendered irrelevant and disappeared.

[Chambered Word]

I really want to put this scumbag's mouth on the curb and send his teeth into his head.


Natural disasters happen in many places, including the white Christendom Pat Robertson idealizes. If anything, these kind of tragedies should show that the loving, paternal God is nowhere, he cannot be found. Epicurus was right about that.

Anyone but me noticed the number of deadly tornados that have happened on Palm Sunday in the South?

[mlgb]

so...

Satan freed them from slavery and God sent them crushing poverty, starvation, and earthquakes?


alright then.

[LeninistKing]

Don't blame Pat Robertson only. In truth most US evangelical churches are fake-christianity, and totally wrong about who devil is. they are what Revelations call "The synagogue" of Satan. And i read a liberation theology bible scholar which said that most evangelical protestant churches in USA don't study the bible. The New Testament never condemns people like Pat Robertson does. And in fact from a real new testament view, the Devil and the dark forces of this world are represented by the powers that be (The capitalist system).

The real devil and lucifer is capitalism and the representative of the devil is USA. Israel is not even the Israel-state created by capitalists in 1948. The Israel of the bible means the oppressed people.

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Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nraknWoes)



What a douchecock. I mean, I know what he said after 9/11, but this is almost worse. It's almost a verbatim justification of imperialism on the basis of Chrstianization.

[The Red Next Door]

Social, some one has allready confronted you about your homophobic way of striking at Robertson. Stop it, please.
i made the two statements on the same day

[Die Neue Zeit]

well it's no surprise the fundie Christians hate Haiti. Voodoo (rooted in traditional African religion) is a more popular religion there than Christianity, and it's one of the most tolerant countries of the Caribbean when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.

Natural disasters happen in many places, including the white Christendom Pat Robertson idealizes. If anything, these kind of tragedies should show that the loving, paternal God is nowhere, he cannot be found. Epicurus was right about that.

Being an ex- myself, "idol worship" does not equal "making a pact with the Devil" (i.e., Satanic cults and what not). I don't know where Robertson gets this shit, to be honest.

[Guerrilla22]

Rush Limbaugh made a dumb remark about it as well. Sadly I would be surprised if pricks like Robertson and Limbaugh didn't make insensitive remarks about a human tragedy.

[The Red Next Door]

Verbal warning for sexist language.
Can i say that i hope he killed over on tv?

[A.J.]

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nraknWoes)



What a douchecock. I mean, I know what he said after 9/11, but this is almost worse. It's almost a verbatim justification of imperialism on the basis of Chrstianization.

I made pact with the devil to make most American W.A.S.P. women morbidly obese.

Lucifer was like "yeah, okay, it's a deal"

http://cs-willy.com/overlooked/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/TheMainDifferenceBetweenEuropeAndUSA.jpg

True story :laugh:

[h9socialist]

Dear Woyzeck --

If the world misses anybody -- it's Frank Zappa!!!! Thank you for this poignant post!!!
--h9socialist

[Tiktaalik]

Yo Pat Robertson needs a brick through his window, a blade to his tires and a bat to the face! Piece of shit, fuck you ripping off desperate people with your Jesus shit and being a fucking pig diamond miner, solidarity means attacking fuckers like you Pat!

[Sean]

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action.
But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.
Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or "Damn Yankees"?
If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll.
You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.
Best, Satan
LILY COYLE, MINNEAPOLIS
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html?ft=1&f=103943429

[LeninistKing]

My friend, the people of USA are hardworking, noble and humble. We cannot hate the american people, and the country of USA for what the ruling governing classes of USA have done to USA. If it's true that most people in USA are obese, it is not their fault. The real cause of weight-gain in USA is the capitalist propaganda of Mcdonalds, Pizzas, cakes and junk food. Only a socialist system in USA could lower obesity rates. because in socialist government, the media wouldn't bomb americans on a constant basis with Digiorno commercials, Mcdonalds, Burger King, Cakes, burgers, Hershey bars, etc.

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I made pact with the devil to make most American W.A.S.P. women morbidly obese.

Lucifer was like "yeah, okay, it's a deal"

http://cs-willy.com/overlooked/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/TheMainDifferenceBetweenEuropeAndUSA.jpg

True story :laugh: