I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THE UBER-RELIGIOUS RIGHT NOW

[filkertom]

Don't tell me how wonderful and virtuous God is. Not today. Not when, once again, God makes Pat Robertson open his big fat yap:

And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle on the one side is Haiti the other is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we meed to pray for them a great turning to god and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable.

This greedy, squinty fucktard has, does, and will continue to blame anything on various and sundry people turning away from what he tells them is the True Faith. Notice that I didn't say "what he believes", 'cause I don't even think he believes it himself.

You want evil? Saying that an entire nation's troubles are based on a two-hundred-year-old fairy story, and further saying that they'd better come to your way of thinking before even worse happens... using a goddamn 7.0 earthquake as a warning poster to boost your church's recruitment... that is fuckin' evil.

ETA: Even Fox News is offended. Well, at least Shepard Smith, who is way, way better than a lot of people there.

Comments

[alverant.livejournal.com]

When Port Royal in Jamaica was destroyed in an earthquake, everyone said it was divine punishment for piracy. Even though piracy was pretty much gone from Royal for decades and at the time the sugar plantations were served with slave labor. Brutal slave labor where anyone who tried to escape was tied down to the ground and set on fire from the feet.

I bring this up because preachers all over christendom celebrated the destruction of Royal as god's punishment. Today only only a fraction of that number has. This is progress.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Well, "acts of God" are quite capricious don't you know? When we had storms come through Nashville recently that destroyed the gigantic Christmas tree in front of the capitol building but left the giant menorah untouched I didn't hear anyone calling it an act of God.

Except me, just to see the looks on Certain People's faces. :)

[ladysoapmaker.livejournal.com]

Reminds me when a local megachurch in the area was posting on their sign (think megatron tvs from sports arenas) for the '08 primary "Vote the bible". the next day we had really bad rains & flooding. It took out their sign for about 2 months. I always stated it was an act of god.

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get them started. Someone's just waiting to tell us all how Christmas trees are a pagan custom anyway, and the menorah's survival is a sign that we should help the Jews back to Israel to hasten the Day of Judgment...