Aftershock - A Journey of Faith to Haiti

[JesusFightClub]

GolightlyGrrl, where are you when we need you? :) I would love to hear your take on this book.

It is the story (from their perspective) of the 10 Americans who decided to set up camp in the Dominican Republic and kidnap Haitian orphans in the name of Jebus. I'm about ten pages in and I'm already shouting out loud at the book. Gems so far:

Haitians can't govern their own country properly because they made a pact with the Devil.

Haitians generally suck at life, but the Dominican Republic shows a path they could follow if they wanted to. If only they had more capitalism, they'd be much happier. Just like the people of the Dominican Republic are. :shifty:

However! Capitalism is the cause of their woes (and Satan too, but moving swiftly on). French-speaking people got rich at the expense of the black Creole-speaking working class. But let's not examine why this might have happened in detail, because that is very icky and might involve politics. Let's blame it instead on Haitians getting FAAR TOO MUCH international aid.

I don't know how people can hold these conflicting thoughts in their mind. Haiti was doomed from the start because Satanism. It got more doomed because the Haitians weren't capitalist enough. The Dominican Republic is a veritable paradise on earth because capitalism has a strong grip there. But capitalism caused a class divide in Haiti. Um, what?

[dawbs]

yeah, capitalism has been just DUCKY for the Domincan :evil-eye:

(My sister lived there for a while-not doing 'fundie' things, it's a long story that's not mine to tell. When she came back, she was literally hungry for months. Because working 2 jobs and doing what she did, she didn't ever get enough to eat.)

[Carla Bruni]

So I'm going to Haiti tomorrow. I'm making my (Canadian) staff on the ground work through the weekend because shiz needs to get done, and they're already threatening to leave me without their famous creole soup :P I wonder if I can deflect some of their rage by bringing them a copy of this book! The flipside is that they might spend the entire weekend reading it and mumbling angrily in québécois. And then nothing's going to get done. Hmmmm. Dilemma!

So is this like socialist fundiedom? Is that now a thing?

[August]

So I'm going to Haiti tomorrow. I'm making my (Canadian) staff on the ground work through the weekend because shiz needs to get done, and they're already threatening to leave me without their famous creole soup :P I wonder if I can deflect some of their rage by bringing them a copy of this book! The flipside is that they might spend the entire weekend reading it and mumbling angrily in québécois. And then nothing's going to get done. Hmmmm. Dilemma!

So is this like socialist fundiedom? Is that now a thing?

I think Jesus personally blessed capitalism through his prophet Ayn, didn't he? Holy bootstraps and all that?

[MysteryHaggis]

Oh! Are these the lot mentioned in Child Catchers? I just bought CC (most I've ever spent on a Kindle book,but so far worth it). I can't believe what went/goes on in Haiti re: adoption. It blows my mind. A lot of fundie attitudes to Haiti sound like André Gide & the Congo in the 19th century. Hideous.

[jenny_islander]

Meanwhile, I'm reading about a baby who was in a Haitian hospital being treated for severe burns due to living in a crappy-ass shanty when the quake hit, leading her mother and siblings to give her up for dead. Two days later, a crew digging through the remains of the hospital found the baby, who on top of her burns now had a fractured skull. Doctors Without Borders saved her life in the short term, but the surgeon who took on her case realized that she wouldn't live long without treatment that hadn't been available in Haiti before the quake. So he begged and pleaded until a Haitian official agreed to let this baby without any ID at all onto a plane bound for London.

And then a reporter did some digging, found her family, informed them that she was in fact alive and getting better, and together the reporter and the surgeon beat the drums until the family got enough donations to get Mom out of the shantytown, send all of the kids to private school, and hire a surgeon to look after the baby at home in Haiti with her family until the last of her vital repairs has been accomplished.

Because you can help people who are down and out without being a dick about it.

[sparkles]

Meanwhile, I'm reading about a baby who was in a Haitian hospital being treated for severe burns due to living in a crappy-ass shanty when the quake hit, leading her mother and siblings to give her up for dead. Two days later, a crew digging through the remains of the hospital found the baby, who on top of her burns now had a fractured skull. Doctors Without Borders saved her life in the short term, but the surgeon who took on her case realized that she wouldn't live long without treatment that hadn't been available in Haiti before the quake. So he begged and pleaded until a Haitian official agreed to let this baby without any ID at all onto a plane bound for London.

And then a reporter did some digging, found her family, informed them that she was in fact alive and getting better, and together the reporter and the surgeon beat the drums until the family got enough donations to get Mom out of the shantytown, send all of the kids to private school, and hire a surgeon to look after the baby at home in Haiti with her family until the last of her vital repairs has been accomplished.

Because you can help people who are down and out without being a dick about it.

Yes, but do they know JESUS? Because it's all about JESUS, not about saving lives, keeping families intact, respecting cultures--all of that means jack with JESUS. No, one must lie, kidnap, and cry persecution when caught, because JESUS.

Child Catchers was one of the most infuriating books I've ever read. I actually have to read it again in order to fully appreciate and review it, now that I know what I'm in for. I was reading it on the train once and actually cried out "What the FUCK?" because what I read angered me so.