http://abcnews. On the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" today, after a lengthy interview with a missionary who talked about helping the victims earthquake in Haiti, Rev. Pat Robertson had some interesting thoughts as to why the earthquake struck the impoverished nation: "And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. "They were under the heel of the French, uh, you know Napoleon the 3rd and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the Devil. "They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.' "True story. "And so the Devil said, 'Okay, it's a deal.' "And, uh, they kicked the French out, you know, with Haitians revolted and got themselves free. "But ever since they have been cursed by, by one thing after another, desperately poor. "That island of Hispaniola is one island. It's cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti on the other side is the Dominican Republican. "Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera. "Haiti is in desperate poverty. "Same island. "They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we're helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable." Robertson's tale stems from a legend that Jean Jacques Dessalines, who led the Haitian revolution against the French Army, entered into a pact with Satan disguised as a voodoo deity in exchange for a military victory, which finally happened in 1803. One minister of a Haitian-American church -- who does not believe this legend -- recently wrote about the frequent references in Haiti "to a spiritual pact that the fathers of the nation supposedly made with the devil to help them win their freedom from France. As a result of that satanic alliance, as they put it, God has placed a curse on the country sometime around its birth, and that divine burden has made it virtually impossible for the vast majority of Haitians to live in peace and prosperity in their land…The satanic pact allegedly took place at Bois-Caïman near Cap-Haïtien on August 14, 1791 during a meeting organized by several slave leaders, under [Dutty] Boukman's leadership, before launching what would become Haiti's Independence War." -jpt
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