Focus on the Family won't be Topped by any old Robertson--

Oooh.

Yeah.

Just supposing that the problem with Haiti didn't have anything to do with colonialism, slavery, racism, corporate opportunism, IMF loans, deforestation, political upheaval, and a series of hurricanes followed by a big, freaking earthquake, well yeah--um, Satan....that's a plausible reason for all the ....

Well, no. That's stupid.

It's stupid because if you look at history, you can see how the poverty is a human tragedy. And if some uppity white Christian bigot has an issue with voudon or dark-skinned island people, that is just ignorant. These are resilient people who have had to eat a lot of crap, and right now they are going through a fuck of a lot. Their country isn't evil. It could have been a lush island paradise, but the users and the people abusers and the takers and the money-makers got in.

Oh, Focus on the Family, if you're feeling the evil--well, maybe predator-Christians would know. So sorry the Haitians don't have much to give right now in exchange for the FOTF interest but their desperation and their souls--but if you kick them while they are down....maybe you can feel better about your smug, comfortable form of Christianity. The kind where kicking people where they are down, or weaker or smaller, is just SOP. They deserve their problems through some hang-up you never knew about. You are just better folks than them.

You have things. They need things. And your God probably ordained it.

Feel good about it? Hopeful that they will find your version of God after some care-package? Will stop being all needy and foreign?

I still entirely approve of FOTF giving anything they can. Tents, food, money, wet-wipes--since clean water is scarce. Just not their sense of superiority and better-people pity. The Haitians have God--the island is very Catholic, for instance. They need material things to live. And what they have is being materially-disadvantaged--it's not evil. But it is evil to think your brother should live that way.