The "Reverend" Pat Robertson, business-tycoon, erstwhile
faith-healer and U.S. presidential candidate, tells us that God has
abandoned the Haitian people, who have only themselves to blame
for the earthquake because their ancestors made a "pact with the Devil."
This is the same Robertson who said the New Yorkers deserved the 9/11
attack for their sinful ways; that Hinduism and Islam are Satanic; that some Protestant denominations harbor the Antichrist; that Scotland is "a
Dark-land, overrun with homosexuals. "His "Reverence" also has called for
the murder of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and had given his personal
guarantee that the world would end in 1982.
I don't know about God, but I do know that common sense, compassion,
and decency abandoned Robertson a long time ago.
CFP “Poet in Residence” William Bedford was born in Dublin, Ireland, but has lived in Toronto for most of his life. His poems and articles have been published in many Canadian journals and in some American publications.
