Just when you thought Brit Hume was bad with his "my religion is better than Tiger's religion" pronouncement, along comes Pat Robertson of 'The 700 Club' to declare that Haiti pretty much got what they deserved because they won their freedom from the French by making a deal with the Devil and are now reaping the consequenses. It wasn't clear from his remarks whether he thought that God sent the earthquake in response to this satanic pact, or the Devil was causing it (which would mean that he was reneging on his side of the pact). This is the same guy who thought that Hurricane Katrina caused the destruction in New Orleans due to legalized abortion and gays. The fact that there are gays in all fifty states and abortion is legal in the whole country didn't seem to faze him. (maybe God should have smitten Iowa, since they legalized gay marriage last year).
Now if your theology is such that your god kills people en masse for some categories of transgressions, where do you draw the line? It seems to me that there are a lot of things that would fall within the biblical parameters of sin and therefore worthy of earthquakes and hurricanes. How do you keep track?
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