Interesting that you chose Haiti as a rebuttal example, but now that you did; all I care to say on it is that if they forsook VOODOO, and trusted The Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior....and then began to tithe WHATEVER THEY HAVE, be it gold bars or seashells, God would be as good as His Word, and would bless them. And if, as the blessings increased, their tithes increased, there would be NO LIMIT to what could come their way. God has given His Word and He will NOT go back on it! Lest you think there may be a small chance that God might not honor His Word......
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Psalms 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
In closing May I stress the fact that The United States of America is the richest place on Earth, to paraphrase what you said, BECAUSE it was FOUNDED upon the principles of The Word of God, and has been especially blessed BECAUSE of that fact.
And lest you may have bought into the lie that The Founders intended there to be “separation of church and state” I can knock THAT idea into a cocked hat with one fact. In the early days of Washington, DC there were regular WORSHIP SERVICES held in the Capitol Building for many years.
When Thomas Jefferson was POTUS, he attended services there faithfully! If you would make the effort to do a little digging, you would discover that for the first 100+ years of this Nation our government, our founding documents, our Presidential declarations....EVERYTHING in Washington, DC was SATURATED with refernces and reverance toward God. All the great early monuments in DC contain multiple Scripture references, and appeals to God for His blessings upon our Nation; including the likeness of Moses, and the Ten Commandments prominently displayed in the SCOTUS building.
The recent slide of our Nation and people into financial ruin and moral rot, can be DIRECTLY traced to our willful rejection of our former reverence toward God, and our rush headlong into a cult religion of DEATH, with the most “holy” sacrament being the slaughter of innocent babies upon the altar of ABORTION!
God will once more bless America when America once more blesses God.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.