I'm disgusted and appalled by the comments attributed to Pat Robertson and quoted on the BBC News site here, and on other sites.
I hope I am regularly quick to give the benefit of the doubt to those quoted in the press as they are so often misrepresented. However, Pat Robertson has a track record in this area of making obscene and offensive comments like this.
To describe Pat Robertson as an 'evangelist' is surely a massive abuse of the term. What good news is he bringing when he declares a nation and a people who are loved by God, for whom Christ died, as cursed, and describes a horrific earthquake as the judgement of God?
I hope that the people of Haiti experience the love of God in these days, not least through the generosity of God's people from every part of the world giving what they can to help in this time of need. I hope that this generosity is a genuine good news message, a true evangel, that will be heard not only in Haiti but all over God's world.
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Amos 3:6-7 specifically says God doesn't do that type of stuff without announcing it. A natural disaster without prophetic announcement that it is punishment for sin IS NOT punishment for sin: its a natural disaster. Unless Pat Robertson is taken for a prophet (which is laughable) then we know FOR SURE that this was purely a natural occurrence, based on what Amos 3:6-7 tells us.
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