Evangelist Nutjob Pat Robertson Claims Haitians Made Pact With Devil; Says Earthquake May Be Blessing in Disguise
Pat Robertson sure knows how to kick people when they're down. The latest stream of crap to spew from the televangelist's mouth is a suggestion on Wednesday that the Haiti earthquake may have been a direct consequence of a "Satanic pact." He went even further, questioning whether Tuesday's quake may have been a "blessing in disguise."
Officials fear that up to half a million people may have died in the powerful 7.0 earthquake which struck the island nation on Tuesday.
During a broadcast of the 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Robertson said:
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. 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."
Earlier in the day during a segment with a reporter for Robertson's CBN News, he questioned whether the earthquake was a "blessing in disguise":
"They need to have ... a great turning to God," he concluded, adding that the earthquake may have been a direct consequence of their "Satanic pact".
Haiti, for those like Pat Robertson that are very misinformed or ignorant, is a god-fearing nation with Catholicism as it's official religion. Between 80 to 85 percent of the country's population identifies themselves as Roman Catholic, and 95% of the total population claims Christian beliefs. How much more can they "turn to God"? Compared to the US, where just 76% of Americans are Christian, they're doing a better job in terms of recruitment.
That aside, what I and many others find sickening about Paterson's diatribe today is its horribly disgusting timing. If one believes that Haitians are being smited by God for past evil doings, fine. But to tell a country this when they are in the midst of a natural disaster unlike the US has ever seen, with so much human suffering, loss, and destruction of life, is utterly appalling.
If you missed the live airing of Robertson's comments on TV today, check out the video below:
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I was a little shocked by Pat Robertson's remarks recently about the 200 year old pact that Haiti made with the devil, so I did some research and was even more shocked when I read this article.
Government Of The Devil, By The Devil, And For The Devil
By Tom Barrett (03/11/04)
"Haiti is the only country in the entire world that has dedicated its government to Satan. Demonic spirits have been consulted for political decisions, and have shaped the country's history." Thus speaks Reverend Doug Anderson, who grew up in Haiti with missionary parents, and served there along with his wife Dawn as a missionary until 1990. The leaders of Haiti make no attempt to hide their allegiance to Satan. Haiti's government is a government of the devil, by the devil, and for the devil.
It is a matter of well-documented historical fact that the nation of Haiti was dedicated to Satan 200 years ago. On August 14, 1791, a group of houngans (voodoo priests), led by a former slave houngan named Boukman, made a pact with the Devil at a place called Bois-Caiman. All present vowed to exterminate all of the white Frenchmen on the island. They sacrificed a black pig in a voodoo ritual at which hundreds of slaves drank the pig’s blood. In this ritual, Boukman asked Satan for his help in liberating Haiti from the French. In exchange, the voodoo priests offered to give the country to Satan for 200 years and swore to serve him. On January 1, 1804, the nation of Haiti was born and thus began a new demonic tyranny.
At the time of the pact Haiti was France's richest colony, and was known as the Pearl of the Antilles for its singular beauty. But it soon became one of the world's poorest and most benighted nations. Scoffers may say that there is no connection between the fact that Haiti was the richest nation in the hemisphere, and then became the poorest after selling its national soul to Satan. But the scoffers can't come up with a better explanation.
Voodoo is a practice based on a mixture of African spiritism and witchcraft. Depending on the source of ones research, between 75 and 90 percent of Haitians practice voodoo. This seems to fly in the face of the fact that the country is predominantly Catholic. But, like their African ancestors, voodoo practitioners have no problem embracing multiple religions. In fact, most who practice voodoo believe they must be Catholic first.
Until recently, voodoo was practiced in secret. Practitioners would go to the Catholic Church on Sunday, and attend voodoo ceremonies deep in the woods at other times. Voodoo was forbidden during the colonial times, and the 32 Haitian governments that followed independence also suppressed the practice because of world condemnation. But on April 8, 2003, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide approved Voodoo as an officially recognized religion in Haiti (see links below). Voodoo priests can now perform marriages and other ceremonies previously reserved for Christian religions. "An ancestral religion, Voodoo is an essential part of national identity," Aristide said in the decree recognizing Voodoo.
Aristide has been a controversial figure since he became the first freely elected president in Haiti's history in 1991, 200 years after the nation was dedicated to Satan. A defrocked Catholic priest, Aristide was expelled in 1988 from his order, the Salesians. He was a hero of the resistance to Haitian tyranny, then president, then exiled, then restored to the presidency by his close friend, Bill Clinton. One of his first acts was to express his support for reinstating the Voodoo pact that expired the year he was elected. He claimed that Voodoo was the national religion of Haiti, and a source of national pride.
Even before Aristide came to power, a U.S. embassy official in Port-au-Prince described Aristide as "a Marxist maniac." Newsweek Magazine called him "the flaky Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide." And none other than Henry Kissinger declared that he was psychotic. While it is true that Aristide used Communism to gain power, I don't believe he is psychotic. What many see as madness is simply the pure evil that emanates from the man.
The Media Research Center (see link below), which describes Aristide as a charismatic Marxist priest had this to say about the man: Aristide wasn't much of a Democrat, paying people to beat up his opponents, and becoming wealthy from drug trafficking into the U.S. For a good, brief primer on Aristide, see Aristide Must Go, the editorial in the March 8 Weekly Standard. It explains how it is not the democratic authorities that are being overthrown in Haiti, but Aristide's retinue of gunmen. (There is a link to this article below, as well.)
Aristide was only in office eight months before he was ousted and fled to the United States. There he effectively lobbied Bill Clinton and other government officials, convincing them that he was not the tyrant that Haitians said he was. After Clinton sent 20,000 American troops to install Aristide in power in 1994, the president-turned-dictator disbanded the army. But the civilian police force he replaced it with has also brutalized the Haitian people, engaging in summary executions as well as the drug-running that has made Aristide the richest man in Haiti. This drug money allows Aristide to live in a lavish mansion in a nation where the average yearly salary is $350.
As the Weekly Standard editorial by Christopher Caldwell says, Aristide, of course, did not create Haiti's problems, but he profits from all of them. His ten years of direct and indirect rule have been a disaster. His regime has been democratic only in the Haitian sense of one man, one vote, one time. The last free and fair election in Haiti was in 1990, the closely monitored contest that brought Aristide to power. Even then, Aristide was making use of street violence orchestrated by his ˜vigilance committees" Four years ago, Aristide received over 90 percent of the vote in a presidential election so transparently corrupt that several American and European agencies reluctantly froze hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money.
With a mystifying regularity reminiscent of Saddam Hussein, Aristide has refused the simplest procedural inducements to unlock millions that could have been used to feed and treat his poorer compatriots. From humble beginnings as a Salesian slum priest, Aristide has become the richest man in Haiti. How? Last Wednesday in Miami, the Haitian mafioso Beaudoin Ketant, go-between for three Colombian cartels, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for transporting 30 tons of cocaine between Haiti and Florida. At his sentencing, Ketant said that Aristide "is a drug lord. He controlled the drug trade in Haiti. It's a one-man show, your honor. You either pay him or you die."
Caldwell goes on to relate how Aristide created a series of banks that paid absurd rates of interest, which enticed Haiti's tiny middle class to deposit their hard-earned dollars. He then stole $90 million from the banks, effectively demolishing the middle class and creating a classic poor-against-rich uprising that resulted in his ouster.
Democrat almost-nominee John Kerry spoke out in support of Aristide prior to his resignation, saying "This democracy is going to be sustained by Democrat Charlie Rangel and the Congressional Black Caucus, along with such upstanding citizens as Reverend Jesses Jackson and Alcee Hastings (the former federal judge convicted of bribery), have been calling for the US to once again install Aristide in power following his recent resignation. They have been irresponsibly trumpeting his ridiculous lies about being kidnapped by the US and forced into exile.The obvious facts are that Aristide begged for US help and we protected him. When it became clear that the only way his safety could be assured was to leave the country, we provided transportation for him.
Had we not intervened, Aristide would have been dead in a matter of days, so furious were the people he had abused for years. He gladly boarded the plane, grateful for our protection. Now that he is safe, he is laying the groundwork for a possible comeback with his preposterous lies. Rangel, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee and the rest of the Black Caucus should be ashamed of siding with a vicious dictator against their own country. I don’t have a bone of prejudice in my body against blacks. But I am greatly prejudiced against the members of this Caucus because of their constant use of the race card, whether or not race is an issue. It is clearly not the issue here. The fact that Aristide is black is not why his countrymen want him gone. It is because he is an evil man.
My biggest problem with this man is the fact that, not only did he make Voodoo an official religion, he used every device available to him to promote it. On the day that his government officially recognized Voodoo, he paid all the radio stations to play nothing but Voodoo music all day. He flew in 400 Voodoo priests from West Africa, the birthplace of the evil religion, to promote it.
A missionary couple who run an orphanage and a school for 400 children in Haiti sent a report to their supporters last summer (see the link to Religious Persecution Intensifies in Haiti below). It reads, in part, "Last week a baby was stolen from the hospital in St. Marc. The reason, the child is to be sacrificed to appease the Voodoo gods for the so-called special day of celebration. Can there be any question of the horribly evil nature of this religion that former priest Aristide promotes?"
And now for the good news. Even with Aristide's support and promotion, Voodoo in Haiti is doomed. God's people have gone on the offensive, and the blood pact that has kept Haiti in darkness for 200 years has been broken.
I first heard this account from Bishop Joel Jeune at a meeting of the Gospel Crusade Ministerial Fellowship (www.GCMF.org). Jeune is the Coordinator of Haiti for the GCMF and oversees 64 churches there.
The link, "US Department of State Report of Religious Freedom" below contains this report: In early August 1997, three evangelical pastors were arrested near Cap Haitien after they had proceeded with plans to hold a religious revival at Bois Caiman. Bois Caiman has a strong patriotic significance for Haitians, since it is the site of a legendary 1791 voodoo ceremony at which slaves swore to rise up against their masters and risk death rather than continue to live in bondage. The resulting slave rebellion was a precursor to the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804).
The pastors, who had been prohibited by the authorities from holding the revival on the actual anniversary of the ceremony, proceeded instead with plans to hold the event several days before the anniversary, hoping to rid the area of malevolent influences. This offended much of the local populace and local authorities, who arrested pastors Joel Jeune, Jean Berthony Paul, and Gregor Joseph on August 4. They were released on the orders of a judge on August 6.
The government account tells only part of the story. In the link "Haiti - God's country after a 'holy invasion" you will see the following and much more (very exciting reading):
"On 14 August 1997, God's people in Haiti experienced a historic victory over Satan, a milestone in winning our country back for God. The reason lies in history. The slaves brought here from Africa have suffered incredibly for many years. On 14 August 1791, a slave leader by the name of Boukman called a secret meeting in a wood called Bois-Caiman near Cap Haitien, which was attended by a large number of slaves. They celebrated a satanic ceremony, sacrificing a pig and drinking its blood, swore to serve the Devil and dedicated Haiti to him. For 206 years, Bois-Caiman was a very holy place, a high place which could only be entered by witch doctors during Voodoo ceremonies. For 206 years, they have been meeting there every August 14 to sacrifice to Satan.
A number of Christian leaders, including Paul and Gerald Clerie of 'Vision: Haiti' and Christian leaders among the large numbers of Haitians in the USA, Canada, France and other countries, called Christians to unite on 14 August 1997 to pray and fast that Haiti would return to God. In Haiti's towns, villages and mountains, Christians came together to fast and pray, held victory marches in the streets and a large event in the capital from 6am to 10pm during the holy invasion.
Our church members started their march in front of the President's palace and marched for 6 hours to the place where the satanic ceremony took place 206 years ago. We had informed the government and media of our intentions weeks before the event, and were told that the witch doctors would be there, as they were every year. When we arrived, they had hidden themselves, unable to directly confront the Christians. It was a significant spiritual battle to reach the tree under which the pig was sacrificed in the original ceremony. We formed a Jericho march, circling the magic tree seven times. On the seventh time around, God gave many people a vision of the Devil fleeing from the area. The Christians were overjoyed. We canceled the satanic contract and broke the curse, before celebrating communion and dedicating the area as a place of prayer. We also declared 14 August to be a national prayer day, on which people should pray that Haiti will return to God.
On the same day, several witch doctors were saved during the events in the capital. Three days after our holy invasion, the witch doctors returned to Bois-Caiman to bring their sacrifices and call on the spirits. After days of effort, nothing happened, because we had commanded the spirits never to return and dedicated the area to Christ.
The witch doctors complained to the government and media. At first, the government also protested, speaking in a press release of 'terrible damage to a Voodoo holy place in which no Christian had set foot for 206 years.' By the grace of God, the government relented and respected our legal right as Haitians to gather at any place on Haiti, including Bois-Caiman, where they now allow all Christian groups to meet. The place is now very popular, and local Christians gather there daily for prayer and fasting. All Haitians now know that the country no longer has a pact with the Devil; the contract has been cancelled, the curse broken.
In 1991, 200 years after his predecessors had dedicated Haiti to Satan, Jean-Bertrand Aristide became president of Haiti and attempted to renew the contract. In 1997, the contract was broken forever. In 2003, in a last desperate attempt to retain power, Aristide made Voodoo an official religion. And now he is gone. Let us pray that Haiti, with its newfound freedom, will turn to the one true God.
US Department of State Report of Religious Freedom
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/irf/irf_haiti99.html
Haiti - God's country after a 'holy invasion'
http://www.jesus.org.uk/dawn/1998/dawn9802.html
Victory Over Voodoo in Haiti
http://www.christian-connection.org/print.php?sid=299
Religious Persecution Intensifies In Haiti
http://www.andyfigueroa.net/haiti.htm
Haiti; Satan's Stronghold
http://www.raptureme.com/rap16.html
Breaking the Blood Pact
http://www.newdirections.org/index.php/pressroom
Aristide Approves Voodoo as an Official Religion
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/archives/00002966.html
Voodoo – It’s Official in Haiti
http://www.ccgm.org.au/articles/ARTICLE-0070.htm
Aristide Defends Record
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/5060184.htm
ARISTIDE MANSION
http://www.salon.com/news/1999/03/12news.html
Media Research Center http://www.mediaresearch.org/printer/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040302pf.asp
“Pearl of the Antillesâ€
http://www.rminet.org/retreat_center.htm
“Aristide Must Go†– The Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/795ywram.asp
Aristide Claims He Was Kidnapped from Haiti
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040306/wl_nm/haiti_aristide_dc_1
Islamic Influences on Haitian Voodoo
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/voodoo/islam.htm
The Challenges Facing Haiti
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/arisfarmplum.htm
I believe that the island wasn't totally erased from the map because of the fact that Dominican Republic is attached to Haiti. I totally agreed with Pat Robertson, and even before his comments, I was thinking that was just God's Justice what they got. I feel deeply sorry for them, but it is true that we have to pay for our acts and it was the time for them to pay the price of what they did.
You should stop preaching. You are a false prophet and ignorant and evil man. How can you rejoice on the misery of others. You and all the other people who agree with what you have said about the Haitians should go back and look at what happened to all these people and those beautiful little children and think again to see if a merciful God could do such a thing to his people. You are evil and heartless. You need to repent and ask God for forgiveness.
You are a moron.
It is worldwide the extent of individuals using satan pacts/contracts to get what they want. Husbands and wives have been gotten through these methods: want a white husband or wife to give your children lighter skin and straighter hair. Some rituals are used to gain citizenship in the Unites States of America/temporary visas.
Carribean isllanders love tthese methods,. so do Africans. Businesses and taking over certain communities included are Asians and Middle Easterners. Mexicans are among these dealing with the dead spirits to gain control to get what they want or need. This is very broad.
HAS AMERICA OPEN THE DOOR TO SATAN???? It is love to include others, but we were build on the ALMIGHTY GOD......... GOD said there shall be no other before me. PLEASE LET US PRAY AND CHANGE BEFORE GOD'S WRATH.
What are you saying? Are you kidding me, you're that insecure, what the hell are you saying? I think you need to look deeply at yourself, you don't make any sense. Do you really think hair texture describes a person? I know you probably could not begin to comprehend what I am saying because you're filled with hatred and prejudices. Here's a wake up call, no one wants your hair. The majority of the world population are really happy with the nationality, culture, language, complexion and hair they were born to have. You need to get out of that itty, bitty, community you live in and go and experience the beautiful diversity within this country and within other countries because you have become another mindless insecure being who wants to hate everyone because you hate yourself. You are Satan, everything you wrote speaks of darkness. You could continue to live in darkness or you could accept the light and love your fellow human being the way God wants you to. Chances are you will probably continue to speak of darkness because you're so filled with hatred. May God Bless Your Heart and Mind you racist person..
I'm not uneducated or anything but all
I have to say about that is:
Fuck HIM
And to the ass hole above me-
"I believe that the Island"
Fuck you too-
You're a dumb ass with no mind of
your own... Don't even do any research on Haiti,
because your brain is too small to contain
ANYTHING OF VALUE...
Your just a Dumb Fuck who doesn't deserve
an opinion... When you die, say hi to Hitler
in Hell for me... You fucking Dick Head!!!
I totally agree. Haiti is the porest country maybe through out the entire world. That Paterson needs to stop disrespecting others, who would care if he committed suicide? not me. Maybe it'll help the Haitian community not feel bad because your trash talking ass cant say anything positive. Good coment Oliver. I AGREE 100 % He is an ass hole !!!
GOD IS NOT AFRAID OF Satan. The word promises one will reap whatever they have sown. Sow good......reap good. I wasn't there when Haiti supposed to have made a pact with satan. If true or not it is still banned by the Alnughty God to practice any worship and thanks to another false god or items.
It is an abomination to drink blood no matter what creatures. Did you ever know satan to offer blood? He can't give what he never had. The demons satan send to a person in contract with him. Satan has no control over anything he never had nor can't create.
I am not asking you to believe me, because ALMIGHTY GOD do not need my help. He can do more in five seconds than anyone can do in five trillions years. Love to you eternally.
TIME TAKES CARE OF ALL THINGS. ONE CAN'T HOLD TIME. IT IS FOREVER
RUNNING.
Actually, I agree with him. I was in Haiti 20 years ago. It was the most god-forsaken place. And they all went to the voodoo man.
They did worship the devil.
I saw this myself.
I am in disbelief to read what you people are saying about Voodoo and the suffering of Haitians. This is for all of you ignorant people who believe the so-call scholarly predictions of Pat Robertson. The Christian God is not an evil God. What Pat Robertson described to be the wrath of God is the actions of an evil God. Is that the God you worship? If so, he sounds like Satan. The Christ described in the bible would have never ever made a wicked heartless statement because he is compassion and love.
For the person who foolishly claims he had gone to Haiti and witness the evil of voodoo, I say you’re a liar. Haitians are beautiful people who have been victimized by their government. Those of you who think evil and speak evil are evil. Haiti is experiencing crippling effects of an earth quake period. You self righteous assholes wake up. Tomorrow you could easily become a victim of a ghastly natural disaster and lose everything, your family, home, friends and the list goes on. What you should be doing is thanking God for the moment of bliss that you’re experiencing. The fact that you can feed yourself and your families. The fact you have a home and your health is good. If you believe in God then help your fellow citizen, stop being such a wicked ass. Learn from your bible.
Pat Robertson is a fking idiot who should be ashamed to call himself a Christian.
This man, who defended that notorious war criminal Charles Taylor in Liberia (google it) is not a Christian. He is one of those false prophets that Jesus warns about in the Bible.
What an ass to open his loathsome mouth when people are suffering!
really... that's fucking stupid, in terms of depravity there are three places that top the list, Mexico, black Africa, and AMERICA. I don't know much about Black Africa, but i know Mexico is so corrupt it might as well be hell, some of the stuff they do over there is f'd up. America is proof that too much freedom is a bad thing, we have more so many pedophiles, rapists, and murderers it's ridiculous and our justice system babies them. Haiti isn't nearly as bad as these top three. Honestly christians like pat robinson are going to hell for being so stupid and for insulting god like that. Anyone who believes his shit is a dumbass
Has anyone ever seen Satan? Has anyone ever seen Pat Robertson? Have you ever seen them at the same time? Then how do you know that Pat Robertson is not Satan? Huh? Tell me? Just like Clark Kent & Superman.
Robertson is Satan. By The way his name isn't even Pat... it's Marion just like Marion Satan - aka The Great Deceiver, Beelzebub, Evil One, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, etc. etc.
He is of no relation to Miroslav Satan.
Is Tom Barrett the Mayor of Milwaukee?
Voodoo and satanism are the same only in the minds of ignorant outsiders. From what I could find on the subject, a voodoo ceremony is said to have taken place at the beginning of the Haitian fight for freedom, but only to an intolerant religious zealot like Pat Robertson could that be construed as a "pact with the devil," and only to an inhuman monster could this be considered just cause for what Haiti is suffering now.
Furthermore, as an agnostic I would add that all forms of religious ignorance and zealotry are essentially the same. People like Robertson will never realize how ridiculous they sound when heard from a truly objective point of view.
Unless you are very poor, everyone should be a human being and donate to the Red Cross.
While Pat Robertson's comments are insensitive to hurting and innocent people; his basic premise and facts are correct.
Can you say Nineveh, Sodom, Gomorah, Canaan or Ephesus?
Have heart....GOoD will prevail!
Question is.....when the pictures finally get out....(I say that because the liberal news media will never report it) will they still say the bloggers are sleazy or will they admit that a rat bastard that cheats on his wife that has cancer may be the sleazy one, not those that talk about it.
Great effort