Earthquake emergency and christian fundamentalists

With the searing images of death and destruction pouring out of Haiti, Pat Robertson, America’s great symbol of christian fundamentalists, has offered up his own form of emergency assistance during this horrific disaster.

It is not enough that he refers to the earthquake as “a blessing in disguise,” but that he disguises his racist and bigoted beliefs in the name of some pathetic god who will no doubt lead he and his followers into the glorious cathedral of salvation.

Let’s be clear here. Due to the current natural disaster on this Caribbean island, one might think racial discrimination is his forte. The reality is that minorities of any form (in his mind, anyway) are his target. For added entertainment, he targets sexual orientation, women, political belief, and political heads of state, to name but a few. However, do not take my word for it. The record speaks for itself.

Ten great quotes on absurdity by Pat Robertson

1 - “They were under the heel of the French, uh, you know, Napoleon the third, or whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘We will serve you‘ if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said ‘Okay, it’s a deal’ and, uh, they kicked the French out.” - on the reason for Haiti earthquake.

2 - "You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." - on assassinating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

3 - “"Wait a minute, I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out,' and 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping." - on being a christian hypocrite.

4 - “There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore.” - on the fallacy of church-state separation.

5 - “You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.” - on being a christian.

6 - “I know it sounds somewhat Machiavellian and evil, to think that you could send a squad in to take out somebody like Osama bin Laden, or to take out the head of North Korea, but isn't it better to do something like that, to take out Milosevic, to take out Saddam Hussein, rather than to spend billions of dollars on a war that harms innocent civilians and destroys the infrastructure of a country?” - on love of fellow man.

7 -  “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.” - on equal rights, baby killers, and lesbian witches.

8 - “I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period.” - on women with two heads. 

9 - “Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together.” - on walking hand in hand.

10 - “To see Americans become followers of Islam is nothing short of insanity.... The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.” - on his failed education.