And Haiti needs this, because--WHARGRBL!

So, a lot of people are donating to great organizations like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, which are both providing useful medical and rescue help with the crisis in Haiti from the tragic earthquake. Other people are also finding ways to help, like Faith Comes By Hearing.

Let's see what they are going to do:

Leave it to Christians to take advantage of those in need. While people from all over the world are sending money and aid to the people of Haiti to help them recover from the earthquake, one Christian group seeks to take advantage of Haitian situation to teach them about Jesus.

A group called “Faith Comes From Hearing” is sending 600 solar-powered audio Bibles to be distributed to the Haitian people. Each one of the devices can play the Bible in 414 different languages to insure that no matter what poor country you live in you too will have a chance to be converted. The device is called “The Proclaim” and it is “just a taste of the technology that God is using to spread His Word throughout the world,” according to the website.

The website also states that, “This could be the generation to bow before our Lord and offer Him the inheritance of the nations.” That seems to be exactly what the people of Haiti are in need of as their lives and homes have been shattered and friends and family members are dying. Food and medical supplies might be important, but that crap is useless in the afterlife apparently.

This could be the generation that decides that people who want to take advantage of a tragedy to pimp their particular god need a swift kick in the hind-quarters. I'm not really sure that while someone is kind of homeless and hungry and recovering from probably some kind of trauma, they really need to sit and hear the Gospel in a bunch of different languages quite as much as they need to hear where their next meal is coming from, and whether they'll get enough antibiotics to make sure they totally kill the bugs their open wound might get, and maybe get communications to whatever far-flung family they might have to see if they're still alive. And if they need company. And stuff like that.

Room on whatever plane takes those digibibles is totally room not spent on antibiotics, water or food. Also filed under: Things that aren't helping.