{"id":352,"date":"2010-01-18T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T09:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2010-01-18T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T09:51:42","slug":"haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just heard them put an Archbishop in the dock on National Radio, to answer for God letting the earthquake happen in Haiti: \u2018What\u2019s your supposed all-powerful, all-loving God got to say about Haiti?\u2019 \u2018\u2026all that undeserved pain and suffering\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They put the same sort of show on for every major disaster; Oh well.\u00a0But where was it again? D\u2019you mean that island where the people who started out as a spin-off from our slave trade have been held in poverty for decades by corruption and oppression, and we\u2019ve not done much to help till now? That one? D\u2019you mean the place that\u2019s usefully provided us with really interesting television documentaries and news stories, spiced up by how beautiful the women are supposed to be there? That one? Oh yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>And which God was it again? D\u2019you mean that God who they thought was the illegitimate son of a teenage peasant girl; that God who chose to start life in an animal feeding trough and just dodged being murdered as a toddler by the government and had to become a refugee\u2014that one? D\u2019you mean that God who the powers that be kept on trying to kill for being too revolutionary, who specialised in making friends with and helping the scum\u2014that one? D\u2019you mean that God who had no home and hardly any possessions and whose friends betrayed or deserted him; that God who was sentenced to death as an innocent man, ripped to shreds by whips then died by being nailed, nude, in public to a piece of wood? That one who said he had to do it all for our sake? \u00a0That one? \u00a0Oh yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does he have to say about the theological view on the Haiti issue? Well, I don\u2019t know first hand\u2014he never said. He wasn\u2019t much of a one for theoretical debates when he was here. The whole thing beats me, really. And it beats me why he would want to get stuck in up to his eyeballs with our mess, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But I would be willing to guess what he wants his followers to do about the Haitians, now. He wants us to break our hearts and give and pray, and he\u2019d say we should count it a privilege to help, not a duty. And he\u2019ll want some of us to go.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/news\/haiti\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just heard them put an Archbishop in the dock on National Radio, to answer for God letting the earthquake happen in Haiti: \u2018What\u2019s your supposed all-powerful, all-loving God got to say about Haiti?\u2019 \u2018\u2026all that undeserved pain and suffering\u2026\u2019 They put the same sort of show on for every major disaster; Oh well.\u00a0But where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54,60,87,96,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7PoLK-haiti","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3557,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/friends-of-cvm\/code-ode-6-an-always-all-wise-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":0},"title":"Code Ode 6 &#8211; An Always All-Wise God?","date":"9 January 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Read Hebrews ch 2 v 16-18. Recite this out loud: An always all-wise God- who knows? Who knows the stigma of a fool, Who\u2019s called a fool by fools but throws No insult back. A ruler making every rule? Who wants to rule with one; With love, gone on and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Friends of CVM&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/friends-blog-640x360.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/carls-thoughts\/powerless\/","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":1},"title":"Powerless","date":"19 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve found it tough to get my head around Haiti. \u00a0I know all the theology and I can come out with the standard responses but that all feels more than a little lame. \u00a0And listen, I know I can pray as well. \u00a0I know that\u2019s crucial and that believers all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Carl Beech&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5102,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/demolition-squad\/bible-contradictions-part-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":2},"title":"Bible Contradictions: Part II","date":"21 March 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we are then, with another exciting instalment of supposed Bible inaccuracies. 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