Focus on the Family: "Haiti... you can literally feel the evil in it."

[The Night Owl]

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Following in the footsteps of Pat Robertson, a guest on the
Focus on the Family program claimed that Satan has had
absolutely free reign in Haiti and that the evil there can be
literally felt. He went on to say that the healing and change
that he expects the church to bring to Haiti could only have
come about as a result of the earthquake. 

Full interview: Focus on the Family Daily (01/18/10):
http://listen.family.org/daily/A000002441.cfm

[BrklynLiberal]

1. So when are they going to bring out the stakes and start burning people in public squares???

They are so f**ked up it is not humorous...it is scary!!

[DesertFlower]

2. hubby and i went to haiti in 1971. we did

not feel any "evil" around us. we saw poverty and people living in shacks. despite the poverty and horrible government (papa doc had just died) and his son had taken over the people were all polite and friendly.

[Meldread]

12. Heh, that's because you're a liberal.

To Focus on the Family that makes you even more evil than a bunch of black people living in poverty.

Focus on the Family is easy to understand:

Lesbians = Evil
Gays = Evil
Bisexuals = Evil
Transgendered = Evil
Non-Christians = Evil
Liberals = Evil
Moderates = Evil
Black People = Evil
Jewish People = Evil*
Christians who don't agree with them = Evil*


* Such individuals who can be converted to their brand of Christianity can be taken off the list.

[tblue37]

29. Don't forget: Poor People = Evil, and completely to blame for their

own suffering.

[The Night Owl]

30. ...and don't forget the corollary...

...which is that wealthy people are virtuous and favored by God.

[Tabasco_Dave]

3. I can literally feel the evil in this country

when i'm around fundamentalist christians. I am not joking.

[tango-tee]

11. My first response was similar to yours.

When I listened to this person, my first thought was "I hear a lot more evil coming from you, buddy!" Why is it that so many of these folks, self-professed Christians with knowledge of the Bible and its teachings, are so often cruel and venomous? Not to mention ignorant. The Haitian people, digging through the rubble hoping to rescue yet another person, the foreign helpers who treat the wounded and try to bring relief - they are doing more of God's work than this blithering idiot could ever hope to bring.

[SkyDaddy7]

21. They are very evil and...

They are about to sweep back into power come November...I honestly think people are going to do the worst possible thing during these economic downturn & that is turn to a mythical god via the ballot box. If so, who knows where we go from there...

[peacetalksforall]

4. At times like this - listening to this speech - a person has to 'know' that there are

good Christians, generous Christians, tolerant Christians, loving Christians, saintly Christians.

This man is a hopeless Satan spreading cheerleader. He's contagious.

[Hekate]

5. Yes

:thumbsup:

[AlbertCat]

13. good Christians, generous Christians, tolerant Christians, loving Christians, saintly Christians.

What does being Christians have to do with it? There are good, generous, tolerant, loving and saintly people out there. There are also shallow, ignorant, superstitious, selfish and violent people too. One's religion is beside the point.

Still, it's nice for Robertson and Focus on the Family and Rush to let us know where they're coming from. We've taken note.

[RZM]

6. Again with the devil . . .

Sheesh. It's so damn narcissistic to filter every single event in the world through one's own personalized view. Sometimes shit just happens. If religion gets people to actually contribute to the relief effort, I'm all for it, but I wish they'd set the preaching aside for a second. I'm sure if an earthquake hit this guy's community, it wouldn't be because of the devil but part of 'God's plan.'

[thereismore]

7. Yeah, too many black people walking around. That's what evil looks like!

:sarcasm:

[PDJane]

9. That's sarcasm,

But closer to the truth than I wish to think about. There's more than a little racism there.

I despise these people and all that they stand for. Like the company printing bilbical verses in code on rifle sights...the business of religion slopping over into the governing sphere is outrageous.

[thereismore]

24. Looking at black people definitely puts them out of their holy comfort zone. For whites only.

I hate these people.

[Divine Discontent]

10. LOL... so effing true. you know that's what they "FELT". They were really DARK skinned, so they

were of the devil, see how that works, it's dark, and mysterious! SHEESH!!!


Focus on the Family???

Focus on the racism is more like it!

[thereismore]

23. These people make me sick. I want to scream. nt

[Mosaic]

8. The evil is in those apathetic,

and demonizing people in evangelical churches such as Robertson's and Focus on the Family. These fake christians don't even know they are selling the souls to the devil they fear by hating on the black folk of Haiti.

[winyanstaz]

14. someone slap some duct tape on that man's mouth...quick!!

He could hurt someone with those lies.
Call the men with the white coats to take him away..please!....sheesh.
I think we have an insanity virus and it's mutating into a hate festering boil in the "pay for God's love and send me all your money" crowd.

[rasputin1952]

15. I have a P/T job and work for a fundementalist...

She has a religious answer for everything. Yesterday, it was, "I guess we can thank the Lord that He gave us warm weather after that terrible snowstorm". I stepped back, wondering why God would get involved with sending a storm that created accidents and enough work that some people had heart attacks trying to dig out to get to the store. Whenever something "uncomfortable" comes up, like a decision to help someone, it's a "test from God". One day, there was a situation where a resident was hy $5 on their rent, (I work at the local Housing Development), and she went into a short tirade about "responsibility". I figured, I'd just give the guy $5 on the sly and that was the end of it, (I did after he left the office, and he was off the hook). About the incident though, she said it was a "test from God", to which I answered..."well, you failed the test." She sat down, looked at me, and started to go into the "personal responsibility" spiel...but cut herself short, realizing that indeed, if this was a "test from God", she certainly did fail.

I think some of the people who spout off crap like this don't think...they simply just don't think. And that is the true disaster in situations like this.

[zeemike]

18. Thanks for sharing that.

And it makes an important point.
First that people tend to go along with the flow and never think for themselves.
And second that yes, it might just be a test for Christians....do they, or do they not, follow the teachings of Jesus?

And this all started with Pat Robertson's comments and his reason for doing that is financial, in that he needs always to justify HIS teachings that God pours out his wealth to those good people and punishes those evil ones with poverty.

Pat is the harlot riding on the back of the beast.

[rasputin1952]

22. To Robertson and his ilk, cash is their god...

people like that have taken a religion that posited forgiveness, empathy, love and compassion and replaced it with something that is fueled by ahte, paranoia and destruction for all those who don't think like they do.

Unfortunately, their "thinking" is taken as fact by some.

No mainstream religion advocates violence in it's tenets. It is people who have interpreted those works into something vile, (regardless of the religion), that are to be held to account in any way we can. I wish no ill will on anyone, that is a baseline for any religion, (or lack thereof), that people should look at before spouting off.

Robertson is not only an embarrassment for Christians, he's an embarrassment to humanity as a whole.

[Jamastiene]

16. Paranoia.

There are medicines that alleviate that affliction.

If they'd just take their damn meds, they wouldn't be imagining evil everywhere except where it really is...their mirrors and their twisted minds.

[j.charles]

17. rush

is a tool

[olegramps]

19. It is a continual struggle against ignorance and superstition.

Our Forefathers were men and women of the Enlightenment and made a dramatic break with the status quo of the domination of mankind by the Church and Crown. When I look at the history of our nation I see it as constant struggle to imbue the concepts held by the founders into the citizens many of who remain hopeless locked in the grip of ignorance.

Unfortunately, millions of our fellow citizens are willing pawns of politicians and fanatical preachers that prey on their ignorance and prejudices in their quest for power. The struggle will go on without cessation or until we surrender to the tyranny that conquered other nations during similar times. During times of discontent and frustration, such as we are experiencing now, is the time in which the least informed of our citizens are most vulnerable to fascistic propaganda whether spewed from the pulpit or by political charlatans. The Tea Baggers have much in common with the Nazi Brown Shirt thugs who were noted for their extreme right wing philosophy, racism and violence. This new breed of fascists are not interested in civil discourse of the issues. They are little more than ignoramus hooligans and thugs who idolize brainless twits like Sara Palin. God help us.

[proReality]

20. People who believe this way are very unhappy in their own lives...

and have an overwhelming desire to make everyone else unhappy and miserable---why else would they all be looking forward to the end of the world!

They are filled with hate, and hate eats the soul from the inside out. I'd feel sorry for them if I didn't feel such revulsion.

[The Night Owl]

25. Isn't it interesting that the speaker prefaces his comments...

...on Haiti with the phrase "between you and me" even though he's giving an interview which he knows will be broadcast over Christian radio stations across the US? It's almost as though he acknowledges that he shouldn't say what he's thinking but then says it anyway.

[Kazak]

26. What does evil literally feel like?

Serious question.

[PA Democrat]

27. If he could truly "see evil" it would have greeted him when he looked in the mirror.

[hmorehead]

28. What do you say to this kind of thing? Did he really think he was making a "positive" statement

by praying that this was some sort of atonement to be saved by? Were all those people were killed mearely lifted up??????

[notadmblnd]

31. well they'd be the experts on evil now, wouldn't they?

my mother had a few sayings..... "it takes one to know one" and "every skunk smells his own hole first"

[StreetKnowledge]

32. Focus on the Family are the ones who are evil.

To sorta quote Hugo Chavez, you can smell the sulfur when you are in a place they just were or are around them.