I’m sure you’ve heard about it:  Pat Robertson said that Haiti’s founders made a pact with Satan in 1791 and the nation’s ongoing woes are a direct result of that diabolical beginning.  Whoops! Um, what’s the Aramaic word for “retraction”?

Predictably, the condemnations have been thundering.  But let’s be honest.  It’s incredibly tempting to look for immediate answers to tragedies.   Why them and not me?  Did someone cause it?

Of course there is never a simple answer.  If God were in the business of punishing sin in obvious ways, NBC President Jeff Zucker would have been struck by lightning weeks ago — perhaps more than once.  But it rarely works out like that.   Bad people seem to thrive.  In the Psalms, King David even asks:  “Why do the wicked prosper?”  And King David didn’t even know about Jeff Zucker.   [To continue, click here.]