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All two of this blog’s regular readers know: I never endorse anything here unless I can sincerely trust a person or organization to the utmost. Well, in light of what’s going on down in Haiti right now in the aftermath of this week’s earthquake, many folks are wondering what they can do to help out the people of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area.

So if your heart is leading you to make a contribution toward the relief efforts there but you may not have known where exactly to lend your resources to, I would like to recommend that you consider giving to New Directions International.

Based in Graham, North Carolina, New Directions is a Christian outreach ministry that, among many other things, sends food and supplies to South America, Africa and plenty of other regions around the world. They are also quite active in helping to construct buildings for ...

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This is an even dumber thing to say than Pat Robertson’s sick statement two days ago.

Here’s what Danny Glover has declared about the earthquake in Haiti…

“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”

So Haiti got hit because the “climate change” conference in Copenhagen last month didn’t go like Glover wanted it to?

Either Glover is horribly ignorant/uneducated about the subjects of climate and plate tectonics, or he’s ascribing god-like sentience and powers to the Earth itself.

Once upon a time, actors were held in such ill repute that they weren’t allowed burial in a town’s cemetery: they were interred without Christian rite at a more remote site from civilization. Today, merely being a celebrity is grounds to celebrate one’s grasp of science and philosophy, however misguided....

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Haiti is still reeling from a 7.3 earthquake two days ago that destroyed Port-au-Prince. A half-million people there or more might be dead in the rubble. The tiny island nation was already one of the world’s poorest economies and even that has been shattered beyond belief.

This is very much one of the worst natural disasters of modern memory. Some are saying that the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami pales in comparison.

As I wrote here yesterday, our thoughts and prayers should be with the people of Haiti. I have certainly held them up in my own time with God.

Just wanted to make it clear that I do have sympathy for what the Haitian people are going through. I can’t say that I have understanding though, ‘cuz honestly I’ve never been through something on this vast a scale. But does my heart break for the people there? Absolutely.

And I ...

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Oh crap. That demented fool is again engaging his mouth before using his mind (or what little is left of it anyway). This time Pat Robertson of The 700 Club is blaming Haiti’s earthquake on how that country’s citizens “swore a pact with the devil” to get free from the French.

I’ve said this from darn nearly the very beginning of this blog, and I’ll say it again: Pat Robertson is, according to the strictest biblical definition, a false prophet. And if Pat Robertson seriously wants America and any other country to “turn to God” in the way that he espouses, then Robertson must be stoned to death. Literally.

That said, I am once again aghast at how a fellow “Christian” will use the name of God to exploit – in however minor a fashion – such a horrific tragedy....

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Yesterday’s 7.3 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is fast shaping up to be one of the worst natural disasters of recent memory. I’m hearing that this is the biggest tremblor in two centuries to hit the area.

Here’s asking this blog’s readers to please hold the Haitian people up in your thoughts and prayers in the days and weeks to come. Lord knows, they’re gonna need it....

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