Televangelist Pat Robertson basically claimed the horrible 7.0 earthquake, which hit Haiti on Tuesday (January 12), killing thousands of people and creating absolute chaos and terror in the country, was God’s punishment for the Haitians slaves’ “pact with the devil” to conquer freedom from France more than 200 years ago (watch video below).

“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said on Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club.” “They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it’s a deal.”

Robertson said that “ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other” and he contrasted Haiti with its neighbor, the Dominican Republic.

“That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle; on the one side is Haiti on the other is the Dominican Republic,” he said. “Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. 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 are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable.”

I have never heard anything more absurd in my life! Pat is the exact type of people that give religion a bad name. Nonsense! He doesn’t even really know his history “Napoleon, or whatever”… Irresponsible heartless lunatic! Visit UNICEF and Red Cross to HELP HAITI!

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