UPDATED & BUMPED: The Ottawa Citizen's Andrew Potter has an interesting take on this controversy - he poses this provocative question, which can certainly generate some more conversation:
So here is the challenge, for all those Christians who were offended by Robertson's remarks: If God isn't punishing Haitians for their pact with the devil, what is He up to? What's your explanation?
ORIGINAL POST (01/14/10):
With the death toll mounting amid the widespread devastation in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, what better time to scold them for their lack of Christianity:
Haiti's ambassador to the US responds here.
Doesn't it seem strange that Pat Robertson is so convinced that a god exists who would willingly cause this earthquake, killing tens or even hundreds of thousands of people? And that this is a god he and his followers worship and ask the rest of us to worship? They consider this a god of love?
I would also point out to Pat Robertson and those that think like him that Peru is an overwhelmingly Christian country, yet that didn't prevent a devastating earthquake in 1970 which claimed 100,000 lives. Although, perhaps Pat would say they're the wrong kind of Christian or they weren't acting Christian enough.
Sadly, this is really nothing new from Pat Robertson - he made similar comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the September 11th attacks.
What's really disturbing is that this man still commands a significant folllowing.
UPDATE: Rex Murphy argues that Pat Roberston has no business speaking for Christianity, and it is only anti-Christian bigots who would like to think that he does. However, this response to Murphy's column argues that perhaps Roberston is a true Christian in that he's following the logic of much of the Old Testament.
Further thoughts on this controversy from Lorne Gunter and Curtis Stock.
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