The Haiti disaster is unimaginably horrible, but, believe it or not, it’s a nation that has fared even worse in the past.
Like this:
The butchery began with (Christopher) Columbus. He slaughtered the native people of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) by unimaginably brutal means. His soldiers tore babies from their mothers and dashed their heads against rocks. They fed their dogs on living children. On one occasion they hung 13 Indians in honour of Christ and the 12 disciples, on a gibbet just low enough for their toes to touch the ground, then disembowelled them and burnt them alive. Columbus ordered all the native people to deliver a certain amount of gold every three months; anyone who failed had his hands cut off. By 1535 the native population of Hispaniola had fallen from 8m to zero: partly as a result of disease, partly as a result of murder, overwork and starvation.
The above extract is from George Monbiot’s critique of the blockbuster film, Avatar. See: HERE
Gosh: Well now, that was back then. This is 2010, I hear your cry. Well, okay, if we sit back and think: “What do the Haitian people most need right now?”
Hmmm. How about solar powered Bibles, to show that God has not forsaken them! See: HERE
