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6 comments:
he DOES realize where he's heading when his 'earthly shell' gives out...correct?
The history's not quite right either (not that it would make this kind of bullshit any more acceptable if it were), but the Haitians rebelling against Napoleon III? Haiti won its independence from revolutionary France before the ascension even of Napoleon I.
Not to mention that most Haitians were then, and remain now, christians. Even those who follow the practices of Vodun (many of whom are also christian, and don't see any contradiction in that) never made a pact with "the Devil". The Devil is a feature of your religion, Pat, not theirs.
All these people who still can't believe that a rebellion of African-descended slaves could fight free from the colonial yoke and set up a legitimate republic without supernatural assistance. How supremacist is that?
Third commenter makes a good point.(sarcasm) Why not focus more on the fact that Pat is also taking money on behalf of the cursedriven tragedy...
@Thanh Lu
Why, is it your reading of this speech that he is applauding the Haitian people's "pact to the Devil" because it won them their freedom? I guess I hadn't seen it that way...
Why yes, Pat, of course Haiti is cursed. That's the only explanation of bad things happening to them. His evidence, that DR is doing well and it's the "same island" is absolute proof. Of course, by that same token, I guess that Mexico is cursed because, hey, the US is doing well and it's the same continent. Leave it to Robertson to find an angle on yet another tragedy to promote his corrupt ministry. Makes me wonder how he explains it when bad things happen to "good people." (which does not, for the record, include New Orleans or New York).
It's amazing how good Robertson is at predicting God's wrath after it happens, and at explaining exactly why God is angry when there's no definitive way of proving how obviously wrong he is.
I can't help but notice that the weather in Virginia Beach, home of Robertson's CBN, looks pretty awful today. God must be mad at Robertson for shooting his mouth off. That's how it works, right?
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