Pat Robertson says Haiti under a Curse

[Archer]

You know the region I live in has one of the highest AIDS rates in the state: • Nash and Edgecombe counties experience high rates of HIV/AIDS in African American communities: In
Nash, 78% of people living with HIV/AIDS as of 2002 were African American, although only 34% of
the county’s population was African American; in Edgecombe County, 89% of HIV/AIDS cases were
African American, where African Americans represent 58% of the county population.

Drugs as well as prostitution are a big cause.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Well, the hemlines of the 1920's dropped drastically in the 1930's --- not to rise to such extreems until the mid-1960's... Clearly Americans once knew what the cause of the Great Depression was. Hint: It was not Christian virtue.

I love it when RF has sane comments

:sarcastic Yes the great depression was caused by naked skin...

 

[Mr Cheese]

You know the region I live in has one of the highest AIDS rates in the state: • Nash and Edgecombe counties experience high rates of HIV/AIDS in African American communities: In
Nash, 78% of people living with HIV/AIDS as of 2002 were African American, although only 34% of
the county’s population was African American; in Edgecombe County, 89% of HIV/AIDS cases were
African American, where African Americans represent 58% of the county population.

Drugs as well as prostitution are a big cause.

not high hem lines or satan worship?

 

[Archer]

ah I see its God's wrath....
despicable...

Not necessarily! God protects those who protect and honor him.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Please note red.

as has been noted vodou is a form of christianity

It actually involves Angels in its purer forms... but thats for another thread

 

[Mr Cheese]

Not necessarily! God protects those who protect and honor him.

So haiti as an evil nation we and are just damned for this and more tragedy...?

:sarcastic
Who'd have thought poppets could cause so much damage...

 

[LittleNipper]

I love it when RF has sane comments

:sarcastic Yes the great depression was caused by naked skin...

No, the Great Depression was the direct cause of GREED, LYING, CHEETING, STEALING, COVETING, REBELLION, ETC... The symptoms were a major shift moral behavior very quickly.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Not necessarily! God protects those who protect and honor him.

How does one protect God?

 

[JMorris]

No, the Great Depression was the direct cause of GREED, LYING, CHEETING, STEALING, COVETING, REBELLION, ETC... The symptoms were a major shift moral behavior very quickly.

what was the Dust Bowl caused by? other than bad farming habits? god hates people who live in creaky sod roofed shacks?

 

[Archer]

So haiti as an evil nation we and are just damned for this and more tragedy...?

:sarcastic
Who'd have thought poppets could cause so much damage...

Perhaps, or perhaps this is a test to see if the rest of the Christian world will reach out as taught in the Bible, the secular world is helping.

As to the Voodoo, the Bible is complete, they need not add to it or take away.

Voodoo is like Halloween, some of the fertility (pagan) practices of Easter, and the secular modern Christmas. These are all wrong.

 

[Archer]

How does one protect God?

In your heart. God is in each of us, if we defend what is taught us in the Bible and spread the Gospel we are in essence protecting his work. Protect was bad word choice but nothing else came to mind.

 

[Archer]

what was the Dust Bowl caused by? other than bad farming habits? god hates people who live in creaky sod roofed shacks?

"You must keep my decrees and my laws.... And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you." (Leviticus 18:26, 28)

Bad land management.

 

[fantome profane]

Has it occurred to anyone else that the “God” that Pat Robertson worships is no different than a terrorist?

S: (n) terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

(p.s. to anyone that is offended by this comparison remember that I am referring to the “God” that Pat Roberson worships, not necessarily the “God” that you worship. If you are still offended, then you probably should be.)

 

[Guitar's Cry]

So haiti as an evil nation we and are just damned for this and more tragedy...?

:sarcastic
Who'd have thought poppets could cause so much damage...

Unfortunately, the misleading stereotype of the "voodoo" poppet has done more damage than anything.

As to the Voodoo, the Bible is complete, they need not add to it or take away.

Voodoo is like Halloween, some of the fertility (pagan) practices of Easter, and the secular modern Christmas. These are all wrong.

If the symbolism is the same, just culturally assimilated, what makes it wrong?

 

[tumbleweed41]

I guess I really should not be surprised that there are those on here who actually think that natural disasters, economic down-turns, and terrorist attacks are the direct result of either Gods wraith, or God withdrawing his protection.
The feeble attempt at causation is ignorance at best, and a deep-down desire for the so called "sinner" to perish by Gods hands at worst.

 

[sojourner]

Not necessarily! God protects those who protect and honor him.

Not necessarily. I know of lots of good Christian souls who have died in natural disasters. My great grandmother was one of them.

 

[JMorris]

"You must keep my decrees and my laws.... And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you." (Leviticus 18:26, 28)

Bad land management.

oh i see

 

[sojourner]

"You must keep my decrees and my laws.... And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you." (Leviticus 18:26, 28)

Bad land management.

Except that "defiling the land" does not = "bad land management." But your equation of the two does = "bad scriptural management."

 

[Archer]

If the symbolism is the same, just culturally assimilated, what makes it wrong?

Nothing wrong with a black Jesus (closer to true than what white folk perceive).

It depends on the level you take it to.

 

[Archer]

Except that "defiling the land" does not = "bad land management." But your equation of the two does = "bad scriptural management."

"The land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and garner their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the Lord.... The land is to have a year of rest." (Leviticus 25:2-5; cf. Exodus 23:10-11)

Next verse.