Posted on 01/14/2010 1:17:00 PM PST by ZGuy
Robertson is another Cato, warning the rest of the Romans...futile, after so many of them have moved in from Europe over the past 150 years.
Thanks, Theo, for posting this link.
Most of the broadcast is about the help that is rolling into Haiti, about the help that was already there before the quake, and the people organizing to get more help on the ground and now.
The remark about Haiti’s founding fathers was one line of a long report on disaster relief. If you know Haiti’s history you’ll know that their history is horrifying. Its easy to imagine what happens to a country when the ruling class is addicted to a murderous form of Marxism; imagine a country in which until recent years the ruling class was addicted to a murderous religion. Read the history. Read about Duvalier Senior, and his predecessors. It is no surprise that Haiti is a non-stop horrorshow.
Obviously the press is going to focus on Robertson’s remark about Haiti’s founding, but they aren’t going to repeat anything he said about the aid that is on the way. And they aren’t going to talk about how Haiti came to be the way it is. Not just its founding, but two hundred years of a circular nightmare.
If you understand the relationship between prosperity and rule of law, none of this should be surprising. And the way out for Haiti should be clear.
As I’ve said on other threads...people seem not to change...in the days of old Israelites stoned the prophets ‘cuz they didn’t like what they heard or agreed with...this is no different...so let’s stone him...
Pat’s an idiot and the person that wrote this is coming off as the Christian version of CAIR.
We have enough crap flying from leftists toward Christians, we don’t need either of these people shoveling more crap to be thrown back.
If you had read my previous posts, you'd know I wasn't defending Robertson's comments, neither was I condemning them. Youre asking me to explain the unexplainable - I don't know and neither do you - and I won't even try.
I was saying that by allowing the other side to shame & embarrass you with the words of another you are playing into their hands.
Why allow them that power? Robertson didn't bind your hands, you did.
Not only was the “historical” information WRONG but what Robertson missed was an opportunity to compare a free nation ( relatively speaking anyway) to one run by dictators ( Dominican Republic vs the Duvalier ridden Haiti)
> Why allow them that power? Robertson didn’t bind your
> hands, you did.
The only defense I had was to un-bind myself from Robertson.
I reminded them that the Mennonites and the Roman Catholics were the FIRST rescue efforts on the ground, before even the Haitian National Guard, and that they never seek publicity and NEVER buy air time on TV or radio to ask for money.
These organizations are almost always the first on the ground anywhere in the world with medicine, food, temporary shelter and sanitation, and clothing.
I am NOT a Mennonite, neither am I a Roman Catholic, by the way.
I'm tired of being on the defensive.
It’s more like they brought things on themselves as opposed to God’s Wrath. With their voo-doo they have and were actively calling in evil. You reap what you sow - more than you sow, later than you sow.
You mean he is like the Pope and the Catholic church?
Right on!
However, he does deliver millions and millions of dollars raised to poverty stricken people and has for years. Yes, people donate to these causes? So what? Good for them. Operation Blessing does tremendous good.
The Catholic Church sucks up way more money than Pat Robinson.
There are many, including a lot of freepers, who would bash Pat Robertson no matter what he says.
Hmmmm.
A couple of questions.
1) What was it about the faith of the centurion that OLJC found so amazing?
2) If being a believer in Jesus makes you Satan-proof, what happened to Judas?
3) Same premise as #2, why did Jesus pray for Peter when He handed him over?
I guess you would say that Judas and Peter weren’t born again. Same for Annanias and Saphirra. Same for Stephen. Same for the Galileans crushed in that earthquake.
My take - sucks to be Job. Or Pharoah. Or anyone since Eve. Man is to trouble born as the sparks fly upward, and the mountains fall on the just and the unjust alike.
Praise be to God in the hope we have in Jesus, and in His kingdom at hand. Praise for all those broken people, including Robertson, who are helping Haitians (and other thirsty people) in His name.
And praise to the One who is good, and whose love endures forever.
Good for you, Gary. You said what needed to be said. Too many Christians just haven’t been taught about the goodness AND the severity of God.
Yes, because Pat has his OWN missionaries down there. Obviously, he wasn't condemning them. He was condemning the beliefs of the large numbers of the people practicing voodoo and accepting socialist Gov't which have kept them in poverty as well as in the dark on religious matters.
Could other words have been used? Yes, but what other TV persona DOESN'T make mistakes. Obermann makes them unfailingly 24/7. Did you ever see vitriol directed at him like is directed at Robertson. Of course not. EXTREME prejudice.
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