Posted on 01/14/2010 1:17:00 PM PST by ZGuy
And wouldn’t you think that there are other parts of the world that would be more deserving of God’s wrath, like, say the Muslim countries? I mean if you are a true-believing Christian, isn’t Islam the complete antithesis?
They may be Catholic, but they also practice voodoo, an anti-Christian faith.
If it wasn't Robertson it would be someone else on the right they would be targeting. Attention is now off of Harry Reid.
Too bad most of the posters on this thread can't recognize how it works.
Pat Robertson “wears $1000 suits and Rolex watches and guilt-trips his mostly poor audience into sending him more money”?
No. That is a lie. Sadly, a lot of FReepers believe that lie to be true, simply because they enjoy hating on high-profile Christians.
Let me say this about that, I don't control God and I don't control earthquakes. On the other hand I live on a planet with a silicon crust that rides on top of a vast hunk of molten iron interladen with millions of small natural nuclear reactors.
STUFF HAPPENS!
During the colonial era the French side was the better-off and much more populated side of the island. It was France's richest colony while the Spanish-speaking side had less than a fifth of the island's population.
During this century Haiti has had enough “progressive” and socialist policies to keep economic development strangled.
Pat Robertson and other "televangelists" charlatans give Christianity a bad name, thereby defaming it. IMHO
This is a fair and balanced piece.
I’m surprised that FReepers sound so much like DU when it comes to hating on high-profile Christians. I guess we really are more “conservative” than “Christian” around here ...
Just another way to allow the Christophobes ammo, and believe me, they are waiting in the wings with enough venom and hatred to execute any Christian has doesn’t toe the line of tyranny. Pat is still a good man.
The conservative movement owes him nothing. As far as I can tell he hasn't helped the movement in any way.
Remember, the Haitians made a deal with the French to pay them an indemnity for their slaves ~ and it took them 100 years to pay off the indemnity.
That's not Socialism, but it had pretty much the same effect, so when the Socialists came around to "improve Haiti" they'd already been ground down so thoroughly it couldn't get better ~ ever ~ and it hasn't.
The French should repay them the $22 billion indemnity.
>> Robertson suffers from the same problems Obama has.
When you surround yourself with people who believe just like you, you tend to think your life is reality for everyone.
I hadn’t considered that. Maybe Robertson has a “yes man” problem ... surrounded by a bunch of sycophants, with no one honest enough with him to take him aside with a copy of his speech, and say “Hey, slick — this particular statement is a freaking lousy idea.”
SnakeDoc
Of all the countries in the world I could live the Islamic ones have to be the last I would choose. Even if I were muslim. They kill each other for fun.
Maybe watch what Pat Robertson actually said before jumping on the hate-Pat bandwagon:
The Duvaliers killed off Haiti’s middle class via the Tonton Macoutes, because they tended to be lighter-skinned Creoles.
<Here’s a little tip. When trying to make a case using “You know” and “and whatever”, it kind of gives the impression that you don’t know what the Hell you’re talking about.
No kidding. I almost turned my attention elsewhere when I heard that (I”m a college prof. My students don’t get away with saying “and whatever”) but for some reason I listened to the rest of his garbage with my mouth open.
I’m going to say something that might tick some people off. I’ve been thinking about Robertson today and wondering if that statement isn’t a bit racist. Should the blacks remain under the heel of the French? Did they not have a right to their own liberty? Why should they have remained under French domination?
I don’t know. I’m just so floored that someone in 2010 would talk about a 200 year old ‘pact with the devil.’ People, please. If you believe in God, I assume you also believe he gave you a brain and that you should use it.
Why are we discussing Robertson? Could it be because Obama and liberals need someone to attack to divert criticism from themselves?
>> I’m surprised that FReepers sound so much like DU when it comes to hating on high-profile Christians. I guess we really are more “conservative” than “Christian” around here ...
I am, and always will be, a Christian first. And, this board is not known for “hating on high profile Christians”. So, when even the vast majority of conservative God-fearing Christians have come to the conclusion that Robertson was being an obnoxious jackass ... maybe its time to re-think before drinking the Robertson kool-aid.
Even Christian leaders are capable of incredible lapses in judgment — and most Christians seem to recognize this as one of those circumstances.
SnakeDoc
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