Has your house collapsed, killing most of your family? Have shipments of food and medicine stopped? Is the only water available for you to drink tainted with every biological nastiness imaginable? Why, the the solution to your problems is at hand!
AS international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a US faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.
Not just any Bible.
These are solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time.
Called the “Proclaimer,” the audio Bible delivers “digital quality” and is designed for “poor and illiterate people”, the Faith Comes By Hearing group said.
Gah.
Interestingly, their webpage seems to have changed slightly in a few days. According to this cached version of the website from January 10, it had this nugget of stupid:
Quoting a well-known TV personality: “The Proclaimer is self-powered and can play the Bible in the jungle, desert or … even on the moon! “
I suspect someone pointed and laughed at the notion that an audio system would be heard in the airless vacuum of space. After a few hours explanation, it might have sunk in.
2 Responses to “Haitians get solar powered Bibles”
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Well, Pat Robertson DID say the earthquake was caused by a “pact-with-the-devil”…
Randy
Do more good if the people learned to READ the printed version.