It doesn't make sense. Avoid them; give them no support. Don't let them do to Christianity what contemporary Republicans have done to America: discredited it.
David Waters, who writes about religion for the Washington Post, now advises ignoring fundamentalists. His reversal comes after the latest diabolical comments made by Pat Robertson about Haiti's earthquake result from the Haitian people's "pact with the devil."
Years ago I wrote a column saying that we should pay attention to the crazy things Robertson says because his thinking reflects the thinking of millions of fundamentalist Christians, many of whom support his multi-million-dollar "Christian" media empire and the political views he espouses. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe the time has come to stop paying attention to Pat Robertson. Surely the time has come for Robertson to stop making such shameful comments. Considering the massive death, destruction and misery in Haiti, it is shameful for anyone -- but especially a so-called minister of the gospel -- to suggest that God or the poor people of Haiti had anything to do with it.
