Pat Robertson: Haiti "Cursed" After "Pact to the Devil"
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NEW YORK (CBS) Pat Robertson, the American Christian televangelist and host of "The 700 Club," said that Haitians need to have a "great turning to god" while he was reporting on the devastating 7.0 earthquake that shook the island nation — the most powerful to hit the country in a century. Video: Pat Robertson's controversial quote is 6 minutes in on this video.
As Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said "well over" 100,000 people may have died in the national disaster, Robertson took to the airwaves Wednesday on his showand said that the country has been "cursed by one thing after another" since they "swore a pact to the devil." "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about," Robertson said Tuesday. Photo: Pat Robertson. "They were under the heel of the French, you know Napoleon the third 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 prince.' True story. And so the devil said, 'Ok it’s a deal.' And they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and got something themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after another," Robertson said. Photo: Injured person in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after 7.0 earthquake, Jan. 12, 2010. This is not the first time the former Republican presidential candidate has made controversial comments in the wake of national disasters. He has linked Hurricane Katrina and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion. "I was reading, yesterday, a book that was very interesting about what God has to say in the Old Testament about those who shed innocent blood…But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster? Could they be connected in some way?" Robertson said in a September 12, 2005 broadcast of "The 700 Club."
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