Pat Robertson claims Haiti is cursed; earthquake caused by Haiti's pact with the devil.

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I came here specifically to post the rebuttal from the Maligned One, but I see Heart beat me to it, lol!

Originally Posted by Heart

The Devil writes Pat Robertson a letter:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...ml?sc=fb&cc=fp

Y'all have GOT to read that; it's wonderful, and oh, so logical!

Originally Posted by Words

I'm not a Christian, let alone Catholic, and really don't care for the current pope myself. Evil fucker though? C'mmon.

Maybe "fucker" is the wrong word.... but "evil"? Please stop and think a minute, and define evil...

To me, "evil" is the smiling face that promotes hate, in a twisted enough way to convince people the person is actually promoting love; in a twisted enough way to convince people they actually deserve the hate "because it is love."

What could be more evil than that? When a person who is NOT the Pope does it, when say, a woman's husband twists his words to make her believe that his brand of hate is actually love and that she deserves every nasty thing he says or does "because he loves her," we flat-out call him an abuser.

I suppose, having grown up Catholic, I have higher standards for Popes than Ratzinger can meet: "Love your neighbor as yourself." It seems pretty elementary to me.

Originally Posted by WILDCAT

Plus, I wanted to ask - is there REALLY a reference to the actual word "WITCH" in the bible? I didn't know that sentiment went back that far in time - that specific, actual word!? (Or, is this from one of the modernized easy for the comtempory folk adapted [very specially interpreted] new word reading bibles, where they can INFER ANY DAMN THING?

Modern times are not the first time the Bible was edited. The actual specific word "witch" is an English word and would have first showed up in the King James Bible, so it's been in there for several hundred years... BUT the whole quote? That "shall not suffer a witch to live" nonsense?

It's not in the original Greek or Aramaic versions. It was edited into the Latin Bible to justify the Spanish Inquisition.