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Advice to young pastors: When someone with a major media platform like Pat Roberston asserts that Haiti’s founders made a pact with the devil, we’re not supposed to just swallow the assertion whole.  It’s an extraordinary assertion, composed of four extraordinary necessities:  1.) that such a pact was actually made;  2.)  that those who made it were authorized to act on behalf of the entire nation;  3.) that it’s being made by those authorized to enter into such a pact actually bound Haiti spiritually for the next 200 years (at least); 4.) that it had anything whatsoever to do with the recent earthquake.   So far as I know, there’s no historical evidence that such a pact was made in the first place.  A Haitian pastor with the Church of God, Jean R. Gelin, Ph.D, did his homework and could  not come up with any credible historical source for the claim.  And that’s just the first first of the four necessities.   Why do we fall for these things?  
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