Recently, in the wake of the tragedy in Haiti, Pat Robinson, the tele-evangelist, opined that Haiti have had all these woes because of a literal pact its leaders--L’ouverture, Faustin, and Christophe--during their revolution signed with the devil. This member of Verily Prime is not privy to the verity of the supposed Faustian pact..but I can say that if this is so, then Pat Robinson, from his traditional Christian beliefs, is right! Political correctness has no place among those of us who call ourselves traditional Christians-it’s akin to us like compromising the Word of God as we interpret it. I know from the get go, this will not be a popular blog and that the atheists and others who read it will be rolling their eyes. We may even be looked upon a loons, but we believe, like Pat Robinson, everything he said concerning our faith on this particular issue. It is no coincidence to us that the very First Commandment says that, thou should have no other Gods, but Me...Many Haitians practice voodoo, or as it is called in the Bible, Necromancy. Now, Mr Robinson who have read the Word and the members of Verily Prime who knew this before we were twelve years old--the consequences of those who practice voodoo--etc; were surprised, even more so, by Christians who berated Reverend Robinson-he was not making up what he said from whole cloth. Where was the political correctness in the brutal punishment God doled out on the Jews for worshiping a false gods and engaging in what He deemed wickedness? When Moses came back from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments and the Jews were worshiping a false god-were they not punished by death-many ironically were swallowed up by the earth; In the Book of Genesis, when God came down and had dinner with Abraham and as He was leaving with his two angels, didn't He asked the two angels if He should tell Abraham what He was about to do with Sodom & Gomorrah, because Abraham’s nephew, Lot, lived in Sodom-where was the political correctness then? When God told the prophet Ezekiel "To warn them for me" because of the Israelis serving of false gods and their pending destruction-where was the political correctness then? Didn’t God tell Saul, Israel’s first king, to wipe out all the necromancers-and when Saul refused, didn't the prophet Samuel carried out God’s order. All of these accounts you could readily read in the Bible, and for us traditionalists, no stretch of interpretation can chalk it up to analogy or symbolism. Again, you may say we and other traditional Christians are loons or worse, but it is what we believe and even upon the pain of death, the members of Verily Prime always ask Jesus, the Christ, for the courage of our convictions in such matters of eschatology. To Reverend. Robinson’s critics, focus upon all he has done for Haiti by the way of aid long before the current tragedy...focus upon all the homes he has build down in Louisiana from his own coffers (you may research this). I conclude by positing this rhetorical question-what is the singular similarity that is common among the dire straits suffered by certain parts of Africa, Louisiana, and Haiti....
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I guess I should start by saying the person who you are attempting to congratulate for his assessment of God's outrage on Haiti is Pat Robertson (as you say, you may research this). I am not of the beliefe that Christians are loons. So I will not entertain any such theory. I also do not subscribe to the belief that God did this to Haiti because they practice voodoo. His admirable work in Haiti does not mean he's correct in his assertion either. My mother would travel to Switzerland to help with avalanches that devastated small towns (no voodoo there). She would travel to Costa Rica to assist with earthquakes and mudslides there (very much christian as well). There are no shortage of "natural" disasters globally. If I go by Pat Robertson's theory, all over the world God is punishing poor (usually brown skinned) communities and children to prove a point to the rest of us? And what of his faithful followers. At the time the earthquake hit in Haiti, I had a very close friend, her husband and their group of Christian missionaries working at a Christian school and orphanage there. Over several years they built that church and it grew to overwhelming capacity. So much so they would have services overflowing into the courtyard. Well the church is gone, many of the members - believing Christians faithful Christians are still missing. I am not wondering why. Ours is now to respond to the need. Physical, spritual, mental, financial. There is a plan larger than any of us, but Pat Robertson pretends to have an inside track that is based on a common interpretation of the Bible. If Pat Robertson's theory postulates that the guily will pay. I know wicked people that have lived very long happy lives and folks like my mom who have died horribly painful deaths at the age of 45. Pat Robertson is a historian as well as a Christian and a philanthropist but it does not mean that he's right. My God is a loving God. This I know for sure.
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