Funny, no one has applied the same scrutiny to what Danny Glover has said about Haiti.
Pat has a tendency to talk first and think about it later. His manner of presentation can sometimes leave a bit to be desired. But there’s no denying that the Bible relates a number of examples of how God allows punishments and catastrophes in response to people’s disobedience. Beyond Haiti, it’s also something for Americans to ponder.
This author thinks he has the unique ability (usually reserved for only God) to discern that homosexuality and abortion are not near as bad as homelessness, poverty, etc.
"And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." John 9:1-3
Sometimes God punishes people for their sin, sometimes He spares people, but all He is for His own glory. So how do we glorify God? By loving Him and doing what He commands. For Haiti, it is not kicking them while down, it is helping them in their time of need and spreading the Gospel.
Blah Blah Blah thank god for “respectable conservatives” to spout the obvious and acceptable. How about our immigration policies which take every Haitian with any ability whatsoever and lets him/her leave the island in the hands of the Big Compassion and Big Welfare rackets.
Unfortunate as it was what happened in Haiti, I recall that the God of the Bible is not always about blessings.
If only good things happen then there would be no need for God to have said (and I am paraphrasing)
Choose this and receive blessings.
Choose this and receive cursing.
Anything a Christians says that the media jumps on (attacks) most likely has a lot of true in it.
Oh crimeny! I cannot abide such ‘proclamations’. You’re telling me those Haitians are praying to the devil to fix this present situation?
I can’t buy any of this and it is simple minded to blame this earthquake on a pact with the devil!
It appeared to me that there were plenty of churches and missionaries prior to the quake. Their social and economic problems is a result of years of corruption in government.
What a stupid remark! What a jackass!
Jesus came that we would have life and that life more abundantly.
Spoke with our Haitian co-workers (from when we lived and worked there) and they confirmed that the 1791 Bois Caiman ceremony is well know in Haitian history to Haitians.
Think about this for a minute...up until sometine after 5PM last Tuesday, January 12, the Leftist elites, intelligensia and artist communities of the Western World were full supporters and promoters of Haitian VooDoo (substitute any spelling you want to use here) celebrating the "wonderful" ways that a people group could throw-off the "shackles of the white man's religion" and develop a "beautiful folk religion of their own".
Flash Forward to minutes after Robertson's comments and suddenly this same group of Leftists who virilently despise anything Biblical and the very mention of The Name of Jesus in public discourse become the defenders of Christianity!?
Really...?!
Stewart is either patronizing or ignorant. At the risk of stating the obvious, I suspect a little of both.
God's presence is often accompanied by an earthquake. There was one on the mountain when He gave the 10 commandments to Moses. Isaiah says His judgment will be accompanied by an earthquake. The Hallel Psalms sing about the earth jumping around like rams and lambs. There was an earthquake when Jesus died on the Cross and when the angel showed up to roll back the tomb. There was one when Paul and Silas were singing God's praises in the prison in Phillipi. There will be earthquakes in the end times as predicted by Jesus and by the Revelation to John.
The earthquake at the Crucifixion liberated dead saints from their tombs and convinced the Roman centurion that He was the Christ.
The earthquake at Jesus' tomb liberated His physical body and convinced the doubting disciples (all but one) that He was the Christ.
The earthquake in Phillipi liberated those captives and convinced the Roman jailer that Jesus was the Christ.
Anyone who does not believe that the same God who sent ten plagues to liberate the Israelites from Egypt would use an earthquake to liberate Haitians held captive by a curse invoked by their fathers simply does not read or does not believe their Bible.
I think Voodoo is bad for any culture and it is endemic in Haiti...extremely.
I don’t think any of us can say if God was bringing it on Haiti himself
But Haiti’s culture has been well....cultivated by Haitians now for 200 years plus....and that burden of responsibility including primitive beliefs on withcraft lies on their own shoulders...earthquakes or not.
Folks love to beat up Robertson but he is not 100% incorrect here ..just presumptive.
Secular Jewish? Does that mean the same thing as "secular Catholic?"
Personally, as a Jew, I cannot recognize anything Jewish in Jon Stewart. Every turn of his thought, every word shows him to be a banal, run-of-the-mill, and not-too-bright leftist.