Again I have to go back to the fact that Haiti has a LARGER percentage of people who say they are Christians (83%)than most countries in the World including the United States. The “prosperity doctrine” does not hold up to facts.
I’m not a big fan of the prosperity doctrine anyway, but I didn’t mean to imply that PR’s argument had MERIT in this case, just that a lot of the objection to it has been not about the lack of specific merit, but a rejection of the belief there could be such a thing as Satan.
My opinion? Haiti was going to get hit by an earthquake. Their failure was in not having a society that functioned well enough to rebuild into a modern-day architecture that would largely withstand an earthquake, and not having the infrastructure to handle the aftermath.
If the quake had been next door, no doubt there would be lots of trouble, but I doubt it would look as bad as it does here.