Last week, I was driving home from my Monday night class and sometimes I like to listen to public radio. It's a good way to hear more information on news stories, gain some new insights and hear other people's take on it. That night, they were discussing the earthquake in Haiti and the comment that Pat Robert's, TV Evangelist, made regarding how all the trouble in Haiti was a result of their pact with the Devil. The radio program focused on Haitian Voodoo and the origins of Pat Robert's story.
Apparently, there really was a Voodoo ceremony to aid them in their fight for Independence. Voodoo is certainly not devil worship, but it makes sense that it would be portrayed this way. Think about it, a bunch of white Christian slave owners get beaten back in a bloody battle by a bunch of heathen slaves praying to someone that is not their God. Furthermore, this was about 50-60 years before America's Civil War and demonizing the Haitians was the best way to make their victory seem less attractive to slaves in the South.
It also mentioned how Pat received his highest ratings from that show. A TV Preacher used the media to spread his story and now Haitians and others sympathizers need to use the media to rebuff him and tell their own story.
Check out the link to the story on 1/25/10
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There's no way the earthquake had anything to do with the vodoo things they were doing. It just happened to be on a fault line or something. It is interesting on how people connect events together that probably have nothing to do with each other.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a load of nonsense. In my opinion Pat Robertson is a lunatic.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how fast things spread through the use of media these days. I heard about this for the first time through a friend's facebook status update. A few of my friends even wrote about it on Twitter before I saw it on the news. It's interesting that even "live news" isn't the fastest media anymore.
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