The nutcase theist Pat Robertson blamed his particular god for the earthquake in Haiti; apparently his flavour of god was angry with the Haitians for rejecting Jesus. Obvious bollocks, of course. If he really wanted to be taken seriously he should have gone with the currently fashionable idea that we get punished with natural disasters because we are evil, consumerist, free-market swine who fail to treat the world with the delicate touch it needs. This is also manifest bollocks. Whenever there is a natural disaster, or even something as minor as the recent cold weather in the UK, the environmentalist nutcases all get terribly worked up about how they are warnings from nature that our shameful ways will lead to the end of civilisation at best and the total annihilation of the world at worst. They get a cheap thrill lecturing us that they know best whilst the rest of us cannot be trusted to live on the planet like responsible people (ie. living in yurts made from cow dung and only eating grass clippings. Sorry, organic grass clippings).

Some appalling examples of this hat-stand thinking* can be found in this excellent article on Spiked.

*A good example that is shows how misanthropic the environmental extremists can be are the Australian bush fires of 2009, which killed 173 people and destroyed 2,000 homes; they were started by arsonists and so are not really linked to any bogus environmental problems. However, these fires  were characterised by Jonathon Porritt, a green who has advised both the UK government and the royal family, as being linked to Australia’s pursuit of ‘unbridled affluence, California-style’. So Australians burned for their sins; how dare they to try to generate wealth! He went on to say that the problem with the Australian bushfires is that they clearly weren’t ‘bad enough’, because Aussies straight away went back to pursuing their ‘dreams of unbridled affluence’. Too many people spout petty, vindictive, sanctimonious drivel like this.