Lots of folk googling around the internet bumped into last week’s post that considered responses to Pat Robertson’s comments about Haiti.
My problem with Robertson’s comments was that they can be understood as little more than Christianised animism. It also seems to suggest that those who are God’s people should be immune from such tragedies. I think that point would be lost on the Christians of Haiti.
The links in my post spell out a reasoned biblical interaction with Robertson’s points.
Anyway, Robertson’s starting point is that Haiti’s independence can be marked down to a deal with the devil.
Jean R. Gelin, a Haitan Christian pastor who has studied to Ph.D. level asserts that “although the satanic pact idea is by far the most popular explanation for Haiti’s birth as a free nation, especially among Christian missionaries and some Haitian Church leaders, it is nothing more than a fantasist opinion that ultimately dissipates upon close examination.”
Read Gelin’s post on the subject here.
HT: Tall, Skinny Kiwi. (Whose post on the subject is far wittier and more amusing than mine).
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