Conservative Televangelist Pat Robertson Blames Chilean Earthquake on “Pact to the Chupacabra”
by Nick Salyers on Mar.01, 2010, under Ranting
Yes, you read that right. The Atlantian host of the 700 Club, who recently came under fire for blaming the Haitian earthquake on a “pact with the Devil” in order to free Haitians from French slaveowners, has now decided to out-crazy himself, this time stating that the Chilean earthquake was a result of the Chilean people’s pact with the legendary bloodsucking Latin American crytptid.
“Something happened a long ago in Chile, and people might not want to talk about it,” Robertson said. “They were under the heel of the democratically elected SOCIALIST regime of Salvador Allende …and they got together and swore a pact to the chupacabra. They said, ’We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the the man we elected president, and install a military dictatorship that will make thousands of ‘troublemakers disappear.’ True story. And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”
Robertson calls the massive tsunami “devil waves” and states that they caused no deaths in the Pacific because “God spared all of the Christian people.”
Robertson even went so far as to imply that the location of the quake, near the city of Concepción was not a coincidence, saying:
“[The Chilean Earthquake was] obviously a part of god’s plan to eradicate the right of women worldwide to have access to reproductive facilities and medical procedures.”
Now, I post this not to try and point a finger to Christianity for hostility. Even some of the most conservative of the conservatives has come out in denouncement of Robertson. But that fact that someone of this level of batshit-insanity exists at all, and is paid to spout this rubbish in the name of a supposedly loving and passionate god exemplifies the inherent and most blatant issue in most of the major religions; a lack of acceptance of other religions. What Robertson is saying here basically is that the people of Chile disagree with him, which not only makes them wrong and bad people, but also in a pact with the “devil.” It’s, truly, an insane thought to have.


