Comments on: Reflections Upon Haiti http://www.ontheborderline.net/reflections-haiti/ Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito. Defending the constitution from government intrusion where ever it may be lurking. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flashy http://www.ontheborderline.net/reflections-haiti/comment-page-1/#comment-13321 Flashy Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:43:03 +0000 http://www.ontheborderline.net/?p=6640#comment-13321 Moreover, you are dead wrong the U.S. has managed to avoid religion induced idocy and waste - just take a good hard look at the record and legacy of the Bush Administration (43). Nuff said. Moreover, you are dead wrong the U.S. has managed to avoid religion induced idocy and waste – just take a good hard look at the record and legacy of the Bush Administration (43).

Nuff said.

]]> By: Flashy http://www.ontheborderline.net/reflections-haiti/comment-page-1/#comment-13320 Flashy Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:07:20 +0000 http://www.ontheborderline.net/?p=6640#comment-13320 Once again Roadkill, you fail to make a valid point about anything. What, exactly, are you trying to say? That religion is the cause of the wealth created here in America? That any and all great human achievements are due not to the work of men's minds, but rather divine inspiration and miracles? Once again Roadkill, you fail to make a valid point about anything. What, exactly, are you trying to say? That religion is the cause of the wealth created here in America? That any and all great human achievements are due not to the work of men’s minds, but rather divine inspiration and miracles?

]]> By: Roadkill http://www.ontheborderline.net/reflections-haiti/comment-page-1/#comment-13319 Roadkill Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:07:44 +0000 http://www.ontheborderline.net/?p=6640#comment-13319 Here’s a news flash, Flashy: The United States too is chock full of Roman Catholics and Protestants. Not to mention those secretive super-mystics, the freemasons, who have beliefs and rituals rivaling those of Voodoo. Yet somehow the US has managed to avoid the “utter idiocy and waste” that you believe religion produced in Haiti. Could it be that your myopic Randian analysis totally misconceives and therefore completely misconstrues the actual reasons for Haiti’s impoverishment? Or is this just blind and irrational Randian hatred of religion leading to confusion of causation, correlation, and effect? Because you know, that same mysticism and irrationalism that you believe is at the root of Haiti’s problems is present in the US in spades, and it has not prevented the United States from becoming the world’s wealthiest and most advanced country. Why is that? Why didn't “irrational and illogical belief systems” prevent America from becoming great? Or, perhaps, could there be other reasons for Haiti’s deplorable condition besides religion? For instance, what about the fact that Haiti has been ruled by brutal and oppressive kleptocrats for most of its history? That whenever it was not so ruled, it suffered from foreign occupation and/or extreme political instability? That due to the lack of political stability there has been precious little investment or industrial development over the past 150 years? Or that radical land redistribution schemes have precluded the establishment of a productive agricultural sector? Could any of these conditions have contributed more to Haiti’s intractable despondency than the factor that you cite – again, the same factor that has had, if anything, the opposite affect on the United States? Better be careful, Flashy, or some Shriner is going to put a Masonic Hex on you. Here’s a news flash, Flashy: The United States too is chock full of Roman Catholics and Protestants. Not to mention those secretive super-mystics, the freemasons, who have beliefs and rituals rivaling those of Voodoo. Yet somehow the US has managed to avoid the “utter idiocy and waste” that you believe religion produced in Haiti. Could it be that your myopic Randian analysis totally misconceives and therefore completely misconstrues the actual reasons for Haiti’s impoverishment? Or is this just blind and irrational Randian hatred of religion leading to confusion of causation, correlation, and effect?

Because you know, that same mysticism and irrationalism that you believe is at the root of Haiti’s problems is present in the US in spades, and it has not prevented the United States from becoming the world’s wealthiest and most advanced country. Why is that? Why didn’t “irrational and illogical belief systems” prevent America from becoming great? Or, perhaps, could there be other reasons for Haiti’s deplorable condition besides religion?

For instance, what about the fact that Haiti has been ruled by brutal and oppressive kleptocrats for most of its history? That whenever it was not so ruled, it suffered from foreign occupation and/or extreme political instability? That due to the lack of political stability there has been precious little investment or industrial development over the past 150 years? Or that radical land redistribution schemes have precluded the establishment of a productive agricultural sector? Could any of these conditions have contributed more to Haiti’s intractable despondency than the factor that you cite – again, the same factor that has had, if anything, the opposite affect on the United States?

Better be careful, Flashy, or some Shriner is going to put a Masonic Hex on you.

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