pat robertson, you infuriate me.

i am angry. and i know i posted a little something on my facebook, but i wasn't going into detail.

pat robertson-you are a JERK. if this wasn't on the internet, i'd post more.

if you don't know what happened, he said that haiti had made a 'pact with the devil'.

you are the reason so many people only see the 'religious right' and want nothing to do with christianity. there are people who think otherwise. smarter people who actually believe that god is loving (WOW WHAT AN IDEA). our god is not a wrathful, hateful god who puts people through situations like this to "teach them a lesson". no, not my god. god loves those who are suffering and suffers with them. he didn't just send jesus to be 'wrathful'. sorry, no way. saying that haiti deserved this is WRONG. it's like the same people who said hurricane katrina was because new orleans is a city of homosexuals. NO. WRONG AGAIN.

that is not my gospel. my gospel is about god helping those on the margins of society. what happened to "loving our neighbor"? the people in haiti are our neighbors. this is NOT justice. justice is helping these people out after this disaster. our god is a god of grace, mercy, love, and forgiveness. not of wrath and judgment.

ok. that's the end of my rant, i think. thanks for listening.

take this and apply it to the current situation:

Some tell us that following Jesus is a simple matter of inviting him into our hearts. But when we do that, Jesus always asks, "May I bring my friends?" And when we look at them, we see that they are not the kind of company we like to keep. The friends of Jesus are the outcasts, the marginalized, the poor, the homeless, the rejected - the lepers of life.

We hesitate and ask, "Jesus, must we really have them too?"

Jesus replies, "Love me, love my friends!"

From Listening at Golgotha: Jesus' Words from the Cross, by Peter Storey, Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.