I have been re-reading "The Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, and came across a quote: "Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion."
This somehow made me think of pastor Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh - very pious people (never mind the drugs) - who recently made widely known their appalling views about Haiti. Pat Robertson asserted that Haitians deserved this latest devastation by an earthquake for their old pact with the Devil to rid them of the French dominance. I am wondering if R. Robertson was the Devil's secretary since he is privy to all the details of the pact. And our conservative chief Rush Limbaugh discouraged people from sending money for relief in Haiti by saying, "We've already donated to Haiti,'' Limbaugh told the caller on his radio show. "It's called the U.S. income tax." You can read the transcript of his whole broadcast about this here. Make no mistake, Rush Limbaugh is as much a pastor of his religion, as Pat Robertson is, only Rush's religion is called the worship of the dollar. And whoever wants to take that dollar away from him is declared the Devil.
Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh - the Dickens's Mrs. Joes.
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