This one was too good to pass up.  I promise this is the last one relating to Pat Robertson for the foreseeable future (roughly the next ten minutes… just kidding).

NPR posted this letter from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.  It is awesome.

Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action.

But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I’m no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.

Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth — glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven’t you seen “Crossroads”? Or “Damn Yankees”?

If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox — that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it — I’m just saying: Not how I roll.
You’re doing great work, Pat, and I don’t want to clip your wings — just, come on, you’re making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That’s working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best, Satan

LILY COYLE, MINNEAPOLIS

I think that about sums up everything I wish I’d come up with on the matter.

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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.

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