Haiti Collapses. Robertson Speaks. Really?

on Jan 13 in Third World

I’m watching CNN.¬† They’re broadcasting live in the heart of downtown Port-au-Prince.

The city has fallen.

North American reporters are crying on-air.

Bodies everywhere.  No age is excluded.

The camera pans past an elderly Haitian woman, waiting in line at the medical clinic with a broken leg.  No pain medication.  No help.  Yet.

Next to the elderly woman, there is an infant with a blanket drapped over her lifeless body.

The President of the country is homeless.  Now.

Women walk past the ruins, shielding the eyes of their children from the wreckage.

And into this tragedy – into this absolute mess¬† – Christian leader Pat Robertson speaks…

Honestly, I don’t even know how to respond to him.

May the loving and compassionate actions of thousands of Christ-lovers working in the stench of Haiti’s ground zero, drown out the voice of one man in a three-piece suit on television.

“The truth of faith is not articulated in offering reasons for suffering, but rather in drawing alongside those who suffer.”

Peter Rollins (The Orthodox Heretic)

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