The Idiots Exercise Their Veto

The rank and file of the Idiot Alert Files have drawn together in righteous indignation to refuse membership to Pat Robertson, citing their standards and the fear that he would foul the organization with his vile presence. The televangelist added to his growing list of idiotic utterances this week by saying the devastating quake that hit Haiti was the result of a pact legend says Jean Jacques Dessalines, who led the Haitian revolution against the French Army, entered into with Satan. "You know ... something happened a long time ago in Haiti. … They got together and swore a pact to the Devil," Robertson told his "700 Club" audience on Wednesday. "They said, 'We will serve you if you get us free from the French.' True story (emphasis my own)." The holier=than=thou mental midget then went on to say that ever since, Haiti has been cursed.
This is a point at which the urge to burst into giggles at his unbelievable idiocy is only supplanted by the need to gnash one's teeth in the best biblical manner; a need brought on by the fact that this pious poop actually thinks he has the right to spout such vitriol.
He's had some pretty incredible statements to make before, for instance, declaring 9/11 to be God's punishment for loose morals in the States, and Hurricane Katrina to be God's anger over abortions performed in the States.
As mentioned, earlier, even those of the Idiot Alert Files have standards and Robertson falls so far below them as to be laughable, if it weren't for those who actually give credence to his mentally deficient wanderings. His declarations of a deity obsessed by vengeance remind one of Mark Twain's statement in "Reflections on Religion". Twain declared that the god of the bible "makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast." This is the god that Robertson seems to believe in; the god he seems somehow to feel so sure of that he can actually interpret the almighty's actions as those of revenge. Says Dr. Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, "It is absolute arrogance to try to interpret any of God's actions as a judgment against this person or that person..."
In a statement on its Web site, the Christian Broadcasting Network said Robertson's compassion for the people of Haiti was obvious, but it was not. His statements only encourage the gullible to feel superior to the Haitians while they pray for god to ease up on the supposedly much-deserved smiting. Such an attitude is indeed arrogance. It is vile and evil.
I firmly believe Robertson has a mission yet to be fulfilled here on earth, but it is not to be performed by his opening his mouth to spew hatred disguised as religious compassion. Neither is it to be performed by his drawing even one more breath. It is, rather, only possible for him to fulfill this mission by having the decency to die, after having left instructions to use his corpse as fertilizer. At least if his rotting remains help to grow some flowers, his existence will not have been a total waste.