Has the "Christian Right" Made a Pact With the Devil?

Alan Grayson points out the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. Not that I think anything good about Grayson (he is typical liberal, the only thing good about him is that he supports more transparency in government), but he has a point. The GOP did nothing for the unborn or stop incentives, benefits, and privileges in the law to commit the abominable act of homosexuality.

Whether or not the earthquake had anything to do with some sin that Haitians committed, I don't know, but Robertson is really good at telling when a disaster is the result of sin (NOT!!!). Robertson is the charlatan and he is one of the causes of lack of action on moral issues, since he endorsed Rudi Giuliani.

Considering Haiti – another perspective

Sam wrote an article, "Considering Haiti," yesterday, where he commented on the outcry against Pat Robertson’s assessment of the possible causes surrounding the devastating Haiti earthquake last week.

Surely the pact that Haiti made with Satan had a role to play in her current impoverishment and decadence. The Satanic influence in the Voodoo ‘religion’ continues to deeply influence that troubled land. Her primary problem is a spiritual one and not a physical or social one.

Connie Schultz, writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper typifies the sentiment of the radical left, which she and her husband, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) never to be confused with the somewhat conservative and Massachusetts’s next U.S. Senator, Scott Brown. She wrote an article on Sunday, “Drowning out Pat Robertson’s message of hate on Haiti with the voices of faith in our common humanity.” Yes, that is what the secularist put their hope and trust in –“our common humanity.” Therein lies the rub, man is fallen. He is desperately wicked apart from salvation, redemption through a personal relationship with God the Son, Jesus Christ.

The peoples of Haiti, individually and collectively, have rejected Jesus Christ, God’s sole provision for restoration of the depraved human condition, is the major cause for that land’s impoverishment. It is the lack of faith and trust in God that is the root cause of Haiti’s problems. It is not that America has not provided enough money from its seemingly unending desire to give away money that it does not have.

The radical leftist media, as epitomized by pundits like Schultz, shoot the messenger (Robertson) and miss completely the message. Schultz distorts the truth. She claims that Robertson “heartlessly claimed the earthquake was God’s revenge.” Robertson never said that. That message is the truth. See and read Robertson’s comments for yourself in the video and the transcript below.



Here is a partial transcript of the video above:

PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and 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, "OK, it's a deal."And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It's cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now, we're helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.

KRISTI WATTS (co-host): Absolutely, Pat.

Schultz viciously attacks Robertson, writing, “What a foolish, hurtful man,” for referring to Haiti’s past pact with Satan. It is Schultz and her ilk that are foolish and hurtful people. “Our common humanity” is not the source of hope; it is the source of rebellion against God. The people building the Tower of Babel (Scriptural account) were united in their desire to reach heaven by their own power, but God intervened and confused their language causing them to be scattered across the earth. God refuses to share His power and glory with mere mortals.

Like Sam said yesterday, rejecting God is dangerous. It was dangerous for Haiti and it is dangerous for any nation to reject God. The current leaders in power here in American continue to reject God and are leading this nation on the same path of destruction as Haiti . . . unless we repent individually and collective of our sins.

Considering Haiti

Pat Robertson was criticized by the Reverend Al Sharpton and a talk show host for saying Haiti was a Voodoo country that had made a pact with the devil. As I recall the people of Haiti reconfirmed this pact a few years ago. Sharpton and others did not like the implication that the people of Haiti are the cause of their problems. Sharpton blamed the United States for Haiti’s problems because we had not given them enough money to help them.

Such speaking tells me that Sharpton and this talk show host, who I think was Rusty Humphries, do not know the Holy Bible or God as well as Pat Robertson does.

In God’s word, the Holy Bible, He clearly states, (Proverbs 14:34) “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Voodoo is certainly sin as is making a pact with the devil. Renewing that pact is also sin.

A nation’s lifestyle does affect how God deals with a nation and a people. (Psalms 107:33, 34) “He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.” (Ps 9:17)”The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Has Haiti been turned into hell?

U.S.A. Today had as one of its headlines, “Help and Pray.” They got it wrong. The people of Haiti need to repent of their sin and invite Jesus into their hearts and live in obedience to Jesus.

America needs to take note because we are going the way of Haiti. There are those who are turning the United States into a secular nation. That is a nation without God; a godless nation. We are not simply forgetting God but turning from God. President Obama says that the United States is 5% of the world’s population yet we consume 25% of the world’s resources. He wants to correct this disparity which would require shrinking the economy by 80% and taking America’s wealth and giving it to others. Rush Limbaugh said he wanted the President to fail and was criticized for it. Evidently the President’s supporters want the American economy to shrink by 80% also. I would say he is being successful at destroying the nation and its people. He did promise change and this is change.

Can you see America turning into hell?
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P.S. Pat Robertson is lamblasted by the opposition media for what he said about the possible cause of the devastation in Haiti. The same media says nothing about the outrageous claims made by actor Danny Glover, who claimed that the cause of the earthquake was the failure of the Coppenhagen Climate Summit! gj

Using Common Sense to Debunk Evolution

I don't agree with the 700 Club or Pat Robertson on many issues, but Ray Comfort is awesome. I hope the people who regularly watch this show see what real Christianity and real witnessing is all about. And what a great title for the book (You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think). No matter how brilliant you are at giving sophisticated scientific proofs of creationism, the sinner is rarely converted by these types of arguments. Pride has hold on sinner's hearts and to admit that they're wrong about something like that is humiliating. The pride factor needs to be torn down first. You need to appeal to the conscience. You need to use the Ten Commandments! You only need to use a little common sense along with it like the watchmaker argument or the other simple ones that you can find on Ray's website.

Steven Keillor's God's Judgments

I have read several books from intervarsity press and found most of them to be rather disappointing. They all seem to criticize popular “worldviews” or “ideologies” in favor of some wishy-washy moderate position with little or no Bible-based arguments. Dr. Richard Mouw’s Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World makes some good points about how to deal with unbelievers, but the compromising position on abortion undercuts the credibility of it. He seems to fail to see that we are in a war with Satan. The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar engages in the discussion of how to get Christian values back into “the academy”. The book has a few helpful hints to help professors in their efforts to witness to their students, but most of it is not very instructive and it totally ignores the root of the problem which is that we have allowed government to control our educational institutions in the first place.

But then I read God’s Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith by Steven J. Keillor. This book is AWESOME!!! I couldn’t put it down! Keillor says in no uncertain terms that God still judges nations (with war, famines, disasters, and such) today. He totally shreds to pieces arguments to the contrary.

I don’t want to give away the whole book, but here some of the main points.

Keillor points out that the Hebrew word for judgment, misphat, has a connotation that goes beyond just punishing evildoers. It implies a “sifting out” or separating of the good from out of the evil. (Remember the refiner’s fire and the separating of the wheat from the chaff.) It is like a light which not only exposes the hypocrites of our day, but also reveals the imperfections in our political systems and ideologies.

Don’t be turned off by his criticism of Pat Robertson’s and Jerry Falwell’s anti-abortion rhetoric at the beginning of the book. He exposes their hypocrisy (a very small portion of it, in my opinion) and harshly criticizes the our current policies on abortion, cloning, human embryonic stem cell research and genetic engineering later on in the book.

He talks about the various viewpoints that were being bandied about in the wake of September 11th, criticizing liberals, conservatives, and moderates alike. Then he goes through the Bible (both OT and NT) and focuses on passages which give the reasons for why God judged the nations the way he did. Then he examines the burning of the White House in 1814 and the Civil War and builds the case that these were examples of God acting in history to punish our nation.

He criticizes the notion that everything we do as a nation is OK with God as long as we do it in a Democratic fashion with free market economics. He criticizes the idea that candidates for offices should use only “worldview” arguments that are based on avoidance of natural consequences of poor policies while remaining silent about the role of God’s judgment. (In his own home state of Minnesota, there is even a law against making “spiritual” threats in a political campaign!) He exposes SOME of the hypocrisies of both the liberals, conservatives, Republicans, and Democrats and shows that they are both to blame for the September 11th attacks. He criticizes their “support ALL of our policies (regardless of whether you agree or disagree)” rhetoric which has caused some many people on both sides to compromise their values.

This book definitely does not say all that needs to be said on the issues he touched on, and I don’t agree with everything he says, but this is a must read for any Christian statesman. This book is AWESOME!!!

http://www.stevekeillor.com/

Pat Robertson Endorses Wrong Candidate

If I was to write to Pat Robertson in regard to his ill timed and ill conceived endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for President I would write something like the following:

As a brother in Christ and fellow conservative I am shocked, hurt and terribly disappointed by your endorsement of pro-death, pro-homosexual, pro-illegal alien Rudy Giuliani. How could any Christian support such an individual at any time, especially this early in the campaign?

This endorsement is a major mishap. I think we believers need to stand behind a principled candidate such as Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo or possibly even Mike Huckabee. I will not vote for any of the “top tier” candidates, especially the former mayor of New York City!

We need to demand that the GOP select a candidate that will lead this country out of its moral mess. We need revival, not the reproach of God. Giuliani is part of the problem, not a part of the solution. Just as Judah was punished by Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament for shedding innocent blood, could it be that the USA is being punished for the 50 million aborted babies with the Iraqi War?

Pat Robertson, please reconsider your foolish endorsement of the ungodly.