Following the catastrophic earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12th, public statements were made by some Evangelical preachers who tried to shame and discredit Haiti’s practice of voodoo. Notably, Pat Robertson suggested that the African-born religion was in fact responsible for bringing on the earthquake – calling voodoo “a pact with the devil” that resulted in this punishment against Haiti.

This accusation added an extra layer of pain to an impoverished country that lost more than 300,000 people in those days.

Max Beauvoir, Haiti's "supreme master" of voodoo, had this to say about Pat Robertson: "I don't know much about him… and I don't think I'm missing much."  He added that “to ask us to stop voodoo would be like asking an American to stop heating hamburgers."