Haiti made a pact with the devil? Probably not.
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Apparently, Pat Robertson couldn’t find anything particularly damning to point to as a scapegoat for the Haiti earthquake, because instead of pointing to homosexuals, feminists, abortions, etc., he chose to blame an alleged pact with the devil that took place 200 years ago during the Haiti revolution. The proof, believers claim, is that Haiti has always been a poor nation ever since the revolution.
This is rather sad in light of the fact that it takes a great deal of ignorance to suppose that Haiti’s troubles could only be supernatural. Haiti is on a fault line – on the “ring of fire,” no less. Scientists have known that it was only a matter of time before a major earthquake would strike.
The Haitian Revolution occurred from 1791–1803. Although they succeeded in driving out their oppressors, they were continually beleaguered by the French for years, who continued to extort them. It also didn’t help that the Haitians were uneducated and unskilled ex-slaves. Under these conditions like these, how could you expect a country to take off smoothly?
So what about this pact with Satan? It takes a great deal of imagination to suppose that the prayer believed to be the one Haitians offered to the creator of the universe had anything to do with Satan.
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