So, we all know full well because of media saturation what has happened in Haiti and out of the woodwork comes those with metaphysical explanations of what has happened.
Notably a televangelist in the United States declaring that the Haitians sold there souls to the devil many moons ago and the disastrous earthquake that struck Haiti is punishment for their sins.
Aside from the obvious geological reasons as to why the earthquake occurred, to many people who are not so wound up in finding divine reasons for disasters, such testimonials about why natural disasters happen sound, at least to me, uneducated, ignorant, and down right absurd.
That televangelist has a lot in common with individuals or groups of individuals who would use interpretations of religious texts to condone acts of violence against others who don't think or believe as they do; a blindness to obvious facts and a narrow point of view on the world.
The world is small. So small in the grand scheme of things. Still, it seems we have the desire to weather divine meaning out of events like natural disasters and even to use such divine meanings for our own purposes and propaganda.
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