The twitter hashtag is #patrobertsondoesntspeakforme.

There are two things that need to be addressed.

1. Those outside of Christianity who want to dismiss us all because of Pat Robertson are a close second to him in terms of ignorance.  If you ignore the work being done in Haiti, primarily by Christian organizations*, in favor of blasting us because Pat Robertson is an idiot (yes, I went there) you are as ignorant of Christianity as Pat Robertson is of Haiti.

Just because not all Christian organizations sink their money into PR, television broadcasting, etc. does not mean you get to choose the ones who are easy to find as representatives for us.  Thanks to free speech, we don’t get to stop him, and I can honestly say that outspending him on PR and TV time would make me worse of a Christian.  So dig a little deeper, learn a little more, don’t choose to be ignorant. The best place to start would be the New Testament, I recommend the book of Mark, or maybe one of Paul’s letters, heck there is even James. Those are representatives of Christianity.

2. Stop giving Pat Robertson money.  I don’t care what your leanings are in terms of politics, he gets to do what he does because of the donations he gets from Christians, so please, stop giving him your money. Here is the tool on TV.

After my colonial Latin America class I really wouldn’t blame the Haitians for making a deal with the devil**, because he would have been better than the French.

*Ed Stetzer has linked to the Baptish Global Response, World Vision informed me earlier today, when I called, that their disaster team is already on the ground.

** I’m not saying they did, I’m just saying I would not have blamed them if they did.