If you know me personally, then you most likely know how I feel about certain political issues. If you know me casually or professionally, then you most likely have no idea about my political leanings.
Let me state this as clearly as I know how...Fox News, owned and operated in America by an Australian, scares me. I love my country. I always have. As a teacher, I have started each day in my classroom with a prayer followed by The Pledge of Allegiance. Many people in today's society think that teachers are godless, a myth perpetuated by "religious leaders" and talk show hosts in "The Main Stream Media." I assure you that's not true.
I've included a collection of videos that highlight exactly how Americans are being manipulated. Glen Beck, especially, scares me. With his "emotional, God-fearing, love-my-country act," he has taken a wedge and polarized our country like never before.
This first video is Beck orchestrating the Tea Party movement. Watch him in his full glory.
This second video is a spoof on Beck's stick. Jon Stewart captured the essence of Beck, strangely, by talking about Beck. It's like Beck on Beck, and it's brilliant.
For good measure, I've tossed in the latest from everyone's favorite Club-mate, Pat Robertson. You remember Pat. He ran for President once and ,inexplicably, lost. A few years later, he proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina was God's vengeance on that den of sin and iniquity. Now Pat claims that the Haiti earthquake was God's vengeance on the people of Haiti for signing a deal with the devil to gain their freedom from France 200 years ago. I'd like to hear Pat tell that to the surviving orphans at The Foyer Des Filles De Dieu (Home of the Daughters of God). A friend of mine was due to land in Port Au Prince today on a mission trip to work with and teach the orphaned girls. The earthquake postponed that trip. Today she learned that five of the girls died along with the cook and his family.
Let me state this as clearly as I know how...Fox News, owned and operated in America by an Australian, scares me. I love my country. I always have. As a teacher, I have started each day in my classroom with a prayer followed by The Pledge of Allegiance. Many people in today's society think that teachers are godless, a myth perpetuated by "religious leaders" and talk show hosts in "The Main Stream Media." I assure you that's not true.
I've included a collection of videos that highlight exactly how Americans are being manipulated. Glen Beck, especially, scares me. With his "emotional, God-fearing, love-my-country act," he has taken a wedge and polarized our country like never before.
This first video is Beck orchestrating the Tea Party movement. Watch him in his full glory.
This second video is a spoof on Beck's stick. Jon Stewart captured the essence of Beck, strangely, by talking about Beck. It's like Beck on Beck, and it's brilliant.
For good measure, I've tossed in the latest from everyone's favorite Club-mate, Pat Robertson. You remember Pat. He ran for President once and ,inexplicably, lost. A few years later, he proclaimed that Hurricane Katrina was God's vengeance on that den of sin and iniquity. Now Pat claims that the Haiti earthquake was God's vengeance on the people of Haiti for signing a deal with the devil to gain their freedom from France 200 years ago. I'd like to hear Pat tell that to the surviving orphans at The Foyer Des Filles De Dieu (Home of the Daughters of God). A friend of mine was due to land in Port Au Prince today on a mission trip to work with and teach the orphaned girls. The earthquake postponed that trip. Today she learned that five of the girls died along with the cook and his family.
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I agree. Too often, parents abdicate their responsibility to rear their young properly.
The truth is that they did make a pact with the devil.
Now the significance you put on that pact I guess has to do with whether you believe the devil is real or not.
But it is one of Haiti's founding myths.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/small_axe/v009/9.2laroche.html
According to Haitian national history, the revolutionary war was launched on the eve of a religious ceremony at a place in the north called Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman, in French). At that ceremony on August 14, 1791, an African slave named Boukman sacrificed a pig, and both Kongo and Creole spirits descended to possess the bodies of the participants, encouraging them and fortifying them for the upcoming revolutionary war. Despite deep ambivalence on the part of intellectuals, Catholics, and the moneyed classes, Vodou has always been linked with militarism and the war of independence and, through it, the pride of national sovereignty.
So, yeah if there is a devil, Haiti made a pact with it. Might explain why even though Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the Dominican Republic has been far more successful.
Dear Mr./Ms. Anonymous,
I personally believe that Rev. Robertson's comments are indefensible, especially from a compassionate religious perspective.
The truth is that they did make a pact with the devil.
That's simply NOT the truth. These people made no such pact.
Now the significance you put on that pact I guess has to do with whether you believe the devil is real or not.
I think your last statement is a bit askew. My God is a loving and compassionate God who does not hold grudges. My God is a powerful God who makes the devil cower in the corner.
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