I have learned some stuff about pacts with the devil. Number one, if you make a pact with the devil, any conditions you put on it are null and void. Such as if you say "Canada will be yours for 200 years if you give us our freedom", the devil will removed the time limit from the pact, but the pact is still good. As a matter of fact, the devil can decide he doesn't even have to make you free, and the pact is still good. Pacts with the devil are not like normal pacts.
Secondly, any pact with the devil, although it may or may not bring what you ask for, it will bring much more bad stuff eventually. Or not, depending on what the devil feels like.
The actual wording of Haiti's "Pact with the Devil" that Pat Robertson referred to, goes like this:
"The god who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The god who holds up the ocean; who makes the thunder roar. Our god who has ears to hear. You who are hidden in the clouds; who watch us from where you are. You see all that the white has made us suffer. The white man's god asks him to commit crimes. But the god within us wants to do good. Our god, who is so good, so just, he orders us to revenge our wrongs. It's he who will direct our arms and bring us the victory. It's he who will assist us. We all should throw away the image of the white men's god, who is so pitiless. Listen to the voice for liberty that speaks in all our
hearts."
From the Associated Baptist Press
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4733/9/
Nobody knows for sure that this was the actual historical pact with the devil, The Voodoo priest might have said something else, as there were no eyewitness. And many other words were probably said during the pact making ceremony, for example about the 200 year limit. But this wording is the best we have to go on about the pact. An unspecified God was named in the pact, but not the White man's God. At that time was known that to be God, you had to be White, so the "god" referred to in the pact must have been the devil. That's how Pat knows it was a "Pact with the Devil".
We have no real proof of course, that they said these words. But we have the following circumstantial evidence to back it up.1) Many Haitians themselves believe there was a pact with the devil. This is like if I believed that Canada made a pact with the devil in 1867, then it may be true because I am a Canadian, and I should know.
2) Haiti is a poor miserable country (say compared to the USA) That kind of indicates the Pact with the devil thing may be true, because we are told that the USA had no pact with the devil, and they are better off. It's not really solid, hard proof, but it does kind of point to Haiti being in league with the devil, and the USA being not in league with the devil.
I wonder if anyone can see in this, the heritage of Puritan thinking that led to the witch burnings in Salem Massachusetts. Rumors and hearsay, backed up by the circumstantial evidence (poverty).
Picture: Limbaugh and Robertson together at last
I do not believe the Haitians formed a pact with the devil. Simply because there's no 'devil' in the form that lunatics like Robertson contend the pact was made with.
ReplyDeleteBut I find this an extreme case of the pot calling the kettle black. One does not require a Ph.D. in History to bring to mind the number of times the Americans have made pacts with real devils ... the House of Saud is a leading current example.
And how soon we forget the diabolical pact the Americans made with Saddam Hussein (a pact which would no doubt still be in effect had that devil not neglected to keep up his end of the bargain ;-)
Not to mention Papa Doc Duvalier, the US puppet dictator in Haiti itself. And the one that tops them all, Pat Robertson's own deal with that devil Charles Taylor, currently on trial for war crimes against Sierra Leone. No Earthquake in Sierra Leone, just murderers finacially backed by Pat Robertson hacking of childrens limbs, and steal diamonds to make Pat even richer.
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