So the Reverend Pat Robertson, in case you've not heard, has decided that Haiti is cursed because the Haitian people made a 'pact with the devil' in return for their freedom from French rule. True, those pacts with the Devil can be tricky things to get out of. US foreign policy, for example, is still trying to find a way to buy its soul back after it was offered up to Lucifer in return for the horned one's assistance in various coups and the installing and/or support of/or turning a blind eye to such luminaries as Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, Pinochet, Noriega, the Contras, Marcos, the Shah of Iran (okay that was with the help of the British government which has also misplaced its soul somewhere), Saddam, Israel's occupation of Palestine and it goes on. It's a long list that continues but then loss of soul possibly became irretrievable anyway after supporting the Pol Pot regime rather than the communist Hun Sen in Cambodia in the 1970s. I'm not quite sure how much you have to sell to Satan to get away with that one. While you're working that out, Mr Robertson, I suggest removing the forest from your eye.
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