Solar-powered Bibles sent to Haiti
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As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a United States group is sending Bibles.
But these aren’t just any Bibles; they’re solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time.
The Faith Comes By Hearing organisation says its Bible, called the Proclaimer, delivers “digital quality” and is designed for “poor and illiterate people”.
It says 600 of the devices are already on their way to Haiti.
The Albuquerque-based organisation says it is responding to the Haitian crisis by “providing faith, hope and love through God’s word in audio”.
The audio Bible can bring the “hope and comfort that comes from knowing God has not forgotten them through this tragedy,” a statement on its website says.
“The Proclaimer is self-powered and can play the Bible in the jungle, desert or … even on the moon!”
Tens of thousands of Port-au-Prince residents are living outdoors because their homes have collapsed or they fear aftershocks following Wednesday’s quake.
– Reuters
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
What do you give a country that has had two hundred years of post colonial turmoil culminating in two of the most evil leaders the world has ever seen, the malevolent Papa Doc and the corrupt spawn of his untethered disease, Baby Doc; and then a succession of American stooges, gangsters and the simply corrupt?
Why an capital city shattering earthquake, of course.
Anybody feeling like re-reading Candide, just for the laughs?
As for the talking bibles; I’m sure in certain circles they will be viewed as the cruel and absurd joke they are. One wonders about these evangelists’ motivation. Why did they have so many units ready to deploy in the particular Haitian creole patois? Where they hoping for just such a devastating event so they could truck in their speaking bibles while the people were shattered and looking for salvation. “Here ya go. Ya homes been destroyed, your family are dead, injured or missing, your country, to all intents and purposes, no longer exists in any meaningful sense and the difficulty delivering aid to so many over such a wide area means even you might die of dehydration or preventable disease; but hey, have one of our speaking bibles. It can drone on about god’s love while you slip into unconsciousness, ignored in the enormity of the quake aftermath; and because it’s solar powered it will continue droning on as your body becomes an unrecognisable bloated stinking disease factory rotting in the sun.
Fuck them, and the god they rode in on!!!
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Just wondering how many of them wired together might make something more useful – commonly used in mining for shifting large amounts of overburden (like Albuquerque) and sometimes sinful heathens.
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But one of their moronic evangelists said that the earthquake and all this suffering was God’s will; punishment because their ancestors were sinful. So how are these poor sods going to change God’s will?
And don’t give me the old line, “God is forgiving.” If he was, why didn’t he forgive them before the earthquake?
I hope Zeus gets these bastards! Send them his thunderclap -or just the clap will do!
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The only folk their god forgives are their preachers when they transgress with teenagers. Anything else is unforgivable!
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Probably a vestige of a Dutch influenced church.
The Hosannas, I mean.
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Well if they get hungry they can eat their bibles
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