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I'd say it's pretty obvious to know what God's thinking on this topic from His Word, the Bible - unless you're suggesting of course that He doesn't reveal His thinking via that medium. I wouldn't presume to speak for Tim, but I would hazard more than an educated guess that he was telling it how...

Where did I say it was the US' fault? I just said there is a history of intervention (most notably 1915-1934) to try to stabilise the country, so it's not unprecedented.

I really don't think most Haitians want to live under dictatorship. Washington played at least a shadowy role in the ousting of Aristide in 2004 and has intervened many times before in Haitian affairs, so it's not as if it is without precedent. I would also hazard that, altruism aside, it is in...

Haiti is a failed state. That much is a given. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't aid the victims of the earthquake. What is does mean is that the US, possibly under UN auspices but principally under its own steam, will probably have to de facto occupy the country for a few years. It's...

Yes, but a more humble soul might have (with his 'theology') seen Isabel as a bit of a warning shot from the Almighty to shut the heck up already.

I'm not sure he turned it away but it was Isabel: it was initially headed for Orlando and Pat started crowing that it was judgement on Disney for supporting gays etc etc; then it promptly changed course and headed for Virginia Beach!

Pat also got his Napoleon's wrong - Haiti gained independence in 1804 during the reign of Napoleon I and four years before the birth of Napoleon III - but heaven forfend that Pat be distracted by facts!

I agree. It* was initially a Christological rather than Mariological statement which came to the fore in the Nestorian controversy. *By 'it', I mean the term theotokos, which does not mean 'Mother of God' but rather 'Bearer of God'; the latter term is theologically quite correct as Mary did...

I don't see how he was being deceptive - he regards himself as a Christian and is entitled to register as such.

Agreed 100%; part of me thinks that Robertson should be airlifted in to Port-au-Prince and made to dig victims out with his bare hands - but another part of me realises that that would probably be more of a penance for the Haitians than for him and they're suffering enough already. There is...

Thanks, Tim. Let's pray as well. Hat's off to the US and millions of Americans who have responded so quickly to the Haitians plight.

Prayers ascending!

Is it just me or does anyone else find the Ood a bit irritating now?

Benny Hill's definitely brown bread. Benny Hinn should be. Sadly, he isn't yet; as usual, Wikipedia is your (not always accurate) friend.

Spoilers alert! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thoughts on David Tennant's swansong last Friday: bit too lachrymose for my liking, but then he's always been slightly prone to the sniffles. And RTD shows that he's a fan of the Star Wars genre, (Wilf being Han Solo in the dog fight, Jack in...

Shame on that State.

On the whole "does it damn Catholics to not receive communion" issue, there are plenty of practising Catholics who don't and can't receive. Who are they? Those who are divorced and remarried. At no stage have I ever heard the Catholic Church call their salvation into question because of that.

It was also I think to do with a conscious rejection of the 'Constantinian Settlement' (a feature common to many streams of the Radical Reformation); in this view of church history, Constantine 'tainted' and corrupted the Church and thus everything since his edict of toleration must be rejected...

If you change 'slaughtering' to 'regularly beating, starving to death and stealing the land of', then you have it about right.