Indeed I think many are losing the capacity to do so.
Especially if you're a Christian.
Putting Pat’s words into context make them even worse. The context is that he made the statements while many thousands of people were buried under rubble dying — women and children included. How many 700 Club viewers refrained from donating to Haiti disaster relief because they thought they would be donating to Satan himself ... because of what Pat says.
And by the way, speaking of nuance and context, maybe Pat needs to focus on that a little more when he reads scripture.
“We live in a soundbite age. Nuanced, in-depth analysis, open mindedness and fair assessments are no longer tolerated.”
I agree with what you said but I would call it a politically correct age. Anything the left and use to send off the reaction of “ten minutes of hate” against the politically incorrect target will be used.
We had a good show of the “ten minutes” here on Free Republic when Robertson’s comment was first exposed. But what Rotertson said is true about Haiti’s majority religion and National or societial deals made with dark power.
The problem I have with Robertson is his insistence of claiming natural disasters are God’s punishment against a people in the location because of this sin or that sin.
Sin is everywhere...so all natural disasters and problems can be attributed to the wrath of God. It is not right that he does this because he really does not know the mind of God. It would be better to use this opportunity of suffering to turn the Hatian people’s eyes towards the healing power and love of Jesus rather than focus on the deals that have been made up to this point with voodoo’s dark powers.