Pat Robertson has, in the past, alleged that other natural disasters and afflictions were based on other sins. For example, he had, in the past, linked Hurricane Katrina to legalized abortion.
Ahmadiyya Times | News Desk | January 13, 2010
Sources: The Daily Telegraph, AU | Huliq News
Edited by Ahmadiyya Times
AS the world mourns for Haiti and the 100,000 people believed to be dead, Pat Robertson, a US televangelist said it was 'a blessing in disguise' and a direct consequence of a "Satanic pact".
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson has made some inflammatory statements about disasters or other "plagues upon mankind" in the past. This morning, Pat Robertson did the same with the Haiti Earthquake.
Pat Robertson questioned whether Tuesday's quake - which is thought to have killed up to 100,000 people - may have been a "blessing in disguise", MyFox National reported.
Pat Robertson alleged that besides the Haiti earthquake, Haiti had been afflicted with other disasters, all because of this pact with the devil. Examples, although not specifically highlighted by Robertson, would be the 2008 hurricane season, in which Haiti suffered through four of those storms.
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," Robertson said during a broadcast of The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
"They (Haitians) were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
"They said 'We will serve you' ... and so, the devil said 'Okay, it's a deal' and kicked the French out."
During an earlier segment with a reporter for Robertson's CBN News, the televangelist had questioned whether the earthquake in Haiti was a "blessing in disguise."
"They need to have ... a great turning to God," he concluded about Haiti which is 80 percent Roman Catholic, adding that the earthquake may have been a direct consequence of their "Satanic pact".
News of Robertson's commentary spread through social networking websites Twitter and Facebook.com, where outraged users expressed disgust by the statement.
Hours after his comments ignited a firestorm in the news media and online, Robertson's ``700 Club'' TV show issued a statement to explain remarks.
"Dr. Robertson never stated that the earthquake was God's wrath,'' the statement read.
It added that "Dr. Robertson's compassion for the people of Haiti is clear. He called for prayer for them."
Pat Robertson has, in the past, alleged that other natural disasters and afflictions were based on other sins. For example, he had, in the past, linked Hurricane Katrina to legalized abortion. Pat Robertson's statements on the Haiti Earthquake are just the latest in a long line of controversial remarks.
More than 100,000 people were feared dead after a cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti, filling the streets with corpses and burying thousands under razed schools, hotels and hospitals.
Desperate victims pleaded for help from beneath mountains of concrete and the capital Port-au-Prince was "mostly destroyed'' an AFP correspondent said, as a humanitarian disaster loomed for survivors facing a second night outdoors.
In horrific scenes, some injured lay in the back of a pick-up truck, a dead victim was seen pinned between the fallen roof of her home and her bed, and rescuers tore at the wreckage of a children's hospital with their bare hands.
The Daily Telegraph - Read here: US televangelist claims Haiti earthquake 'a blessing in disguise'
Huliq News - Read here: Pat Robertson On Haiti Earthquake: Caused By Pact With The Devil
- By Ahmadiyya Times staff.
Ahmadiyya Times | News Desk | January 13, 2010
Sources: The Daily Telegraph, AU | Huliq News
Edited by Ahmadiyya Times
AS the world mourns for Haiti and the 100,000 people believed to be dead, Pat Robertson, a US televangelist said it was 'a blessing in disguise' and a direct consequence of a "Satanic pact".
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson has made some inflammatory statements about disasters or other "plagues upon mankind" in the past. This morning, Pat Robertson did the same with the Haiti Earthquake.
Pat Robertson questioned whether Tuesday's quake - which is thought to have killed up to 100,000 people - may have been a "blessing in disguise", MyFox National reported.
Pat Robertson alleged that besides the Haiti earthquake, Haiti had been afflicted with other disasters, all because of this pact with the devil. Examples, although not specifically highlighted by Robertson, would be the 2008 hurricane season, in which Haiti suffered through four of those storms.
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," Robertson said during a broadcast of The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
"They (Haitians) were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
"They said 'We will serve you' ... and so, the devil said 'Okay, it's a deal' and kicked the French out."
During an earlier segment with a reporter for Robertson's CBN News, the televangelist had questioned whether the earthquake in Haiti was a "blessing in disguise."
"They need to have ... a great turning to God," he concluded about Haiti which is 80 percent Roman Catholic, adding that the earthquake may have been a direct consequence of their "Satanic pact".
News of Robertson's commentary spread through social networking websites Twitter and Facebook.com, where outraged users expressed disgust by the statement.
Hours after his comments ignited a firestorm in the news media and online, Robertson's ``700 Club'' TV show issued a statement to explain remarks.
"Dr. Robertson never stated that the earthquake was God's wrath,'' the statement read.
It added that "Dr. Robertson's compassion for the people of Haiti is clear. He called for prayer for them."
Pat Robertson has, in the past, alleged that other natural disasters and afflictions were based on other sins. For example, he had, in the past, linked Hurricane Katrina to legalized abortion. Pat Robertson's statements on the Haiti Earthquake are just the latest in a long line of controversial remarks.
More than 100,000 people were feared dead after a cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti, filling the streets with corpses and burying thousands under razed schools, hotels and hospitals.
Desperate victims pleaded for help from beneath mountains of concrete and the capital Port-au-Prince was "mostly destroyed'' an AFP correspondent said, as a humanitarian disaster loomed for survivors facing a second night outdoors.
In horrific scenes, some injured lay in the back of a pick-up truck, a dead victim was seen pinned between the fallen roof of her home and her bed, and rescuers tore at the wreckage of a children's hospital with their bare hands.
The Daily Telegraph - Read here: US televangelist claims Haiti earthquake 'a blessing in disguise'
Huliq News - Read here: Pat Robertson On Haiti Earthquake: Caused By Pact With The Devil
- By Ahmadiyya Times staff.
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