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Why God Hates Haiti - The frustrating theology of suffering.
Newsweek ^ | Jan 15, 2010 | Lisa Miller

Posted on 01/17/2010 5:21:04 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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The 200 plus years of abject misery, poverty and brutalization have made me wonder if nations like Haiti are indeed "cursed."

The "curse" of Haiti seems to stem more from the consequences of free will.

Rather than follow the American Revolutionaries' example of reason and enlightenment, Haiti seems to have perpetuated 220 years of "The Reign of Terror" in the same fashion as The French Revolution...

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein.

1 posted on 01/17/2010 5:21:06 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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2 posted on 01/17/2010 5:26:25 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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France is blaming the U.S. for delayed medical help, Chavez says we are ‘occupiers under the name of aid’.

Hillary Clinton had a damage control PR stunt on Obama’s behalf, but who was she talking to? Hatians have no t.v or radio and are starving and dying of dehydration in the streets, because the U.N. won’t let the U.S. come in and do what we do so well!! But she did bring the diplomats mustard, soap and cigarettes (who knows what else)!

Haitians say ‘it’s the white outsider’s to blame.’

I lost my sympathy for them. Not another penny.


3 posted on 01/17/2010 5:28:43 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Haiti is an experiment that proves that Africa was helped by colonial rule.


4 posted on 01/17/2010 5:31:33 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: DogByte6RER

After the slave revolt the new leaders hunted down and exterminated all the whites. Even the ones the new leaders had invited to settle there.


5 posted on 01/17/2010 5:36:44 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: DogByte6RER
Lisa Miller, Newsweak's butt-hole who pretends to write about religion, at it again.
6 posted on 01/17/2010 5:40:24 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: DogByte6RER

Haiti suffers from being an “accidental country.” It was somewhat inadvertently established by the French, after a colony of French Protestant pirates took up residence on what is now the Haitian end of the island of Hispaniola. The Spanish tried to get them out but didn’t have the forces to spare and eventually, as the result of the settlement of a different war, ceded that end of the island to the French (the nation of France, that is, and not just the pirates).

The Dominican Republic had the oldest university and the oldest cathedral, among other things, in the New World. Haiti had...ta da...nothing.

Its history is complicated and bloody, but I have always felt that one of its big problems was the fact that it really wasn’t, like places such as Mexico or New England, a place that was seen by its colonizers as the future home of a society somewhat similar to the one they had left behind. There never seems to have been a plan for Haiti’s future, and expecting African slaves, swept up by the Muslims from tribes across Africa, to spontaneously generate one is somewhat unrealistic. I think they’re still suffering from this lack of a plan.


7 posted on 01/17/2010 5:45:49 PM PST by livius
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It appears that Obama is annexing Haiti.


8 posted on 01/17/2010 5:46:27 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: DogByte6RER

read this

http://www.amren.com/ar/2001/04/index.html#cover

‘Revolution in Haiti’

They exterminated the whites.


9 posted on 01/17/2010 5:48:40 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Freddd
lost my sympathy for them. Not another penny.

I do feel for the people But I would never give a dime to the evil UN or Whitehouse.gov. Catholic charities is the best bet to get aid to the people and not the corrupt middlemen that will suddenly demand a cut.

The point I started to make was that I get the feeling that this is another crisis that Rham isn't letting go to waste.

10 posted on 01/17/2010 5:49:52 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: DogByte6RER

Job was a righteous man who was being tested by Satan...and God permitted it, for his own glory, which he duly received at the end.

Haiti is not a righteous nation. Frankly, neither are we.


11 posted on 01/17/2010 6:00:39 PM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces Free Men here...not slaves.")
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(Off Thread Topic, but interesting)

ON THE INTERNET:

stepping back in time...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2985627.stm

Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 April, 2003, 14:35 GMT 15:35 UK

“Haiti makes voodoo official”

PHOTO CAPTION: “Over 90% of Haitians are said to practice voodoo”

SNIPPET: “Voodoo has been practised in Haiti since the late 18th Century, but only now has it been recognised as a religion on a par with others worshipped in the country.”


12 posted on 01/17/2010 6:03:02 PM PST by Cindy
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"It appears that Obama is annexing Haiti."

Bingo!

13 posted on 01/17/2010 6:08:30 PM PST by gandalftb (OK State: Go Cowboys)
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To: screaminsunshine
"It appears that Obama is annexing Haiti."

Bingo!

14 posted on 01/17/2010 6:08:41 PM PST by gandalftb (OK State: Go Cowboys)
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To: gandalftb

Obama and his band of neo-communists have finally found a constituancy that really does need them. Gag! They will never let go.


15 posted on 01/17/2010 6:15:05 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: DogByte6RER

Thanks Dog,
US out of UN!


16 posted on 01/17/2010 6:18:13 PM PST by bravotu (Have a Nice Day !)
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To: DogByte6RER

Thanks Dog,
US out of UN!


17 posted on 01/17/2010 6:18:31 PM PST by bravotu (Have a Nice Day !)
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To: DogByte6RER

200 years of corruption, cruelty, and greed have everything to do with the hell of Haiti.


18 posted on 01/17/2010 6:23:26 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: screaminsunshine

“It appears that Obama is annexing Haiti.”

Obama feeds them and ACORN signs them up to vote: sounds very ‘Chicago’ to me!


19 posted on 01/17/2010 6:55:14 PM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: DogByte6RER

Astounding graphic.


20 posted on 01/17/2010 8:20:30 PM PST by daniel1212 (Pro 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger [frozen chosen])
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