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Why God hates Haiti

Haiti is surely a Job among nations. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere: half its population lives on less than a dollar a day. With 98 percent of its forests felled and burned for firewood, Haiti is uniquely vulnerable to flooding from hurricanes. In 2008, four storms left a million homeless. Haiti has an infant-mortality rate worse than that of many African nations, and its people are plagued by disease: diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid fever, dengue fever, malaria, and leptospirosis are rampant there. This litany doesn’t even touch on Haiti’s disastrous political history, most notably the reign of François (Papa Doc) Duvalier, who assassinated and tortured more than 30,000 in the 1960s.



(Thony Belizaire/AFP/)

Now, with as many as 100,000 dead in last week’s earthquake, people are asking themselves some questions: if God is good and intervenes in the world, then why does He make innocents suffer? Why, as Job might have said, would God “crush an impoverished people with a tempest and multiply their wounds without cause”? Job: Jó, personagem bíblico. Fell: cortar, abater. Flooding: inundação, enchente. Rampant: devastador. Wounds: feridas, ferimentos.

For Pat Robertson, the TV evangelist, the answer is simple:it’s the Haitians’ own fault, presumably for practicing voodoo. Nearly all Haitians are Christian, but about half also practice voodoo, an adaptation of their African ancestors’ native religion.

In his narrow, malicious way, Robertson is making a First Commandment argument: when the God of Israel thunders from his mountaintop that “you shall have no other gods before me,” He means it. This God rains down disaster — floods and so forth — on those who disobey.

Adapted from Lisa Miller. Newsweek, January 25, 2010.

Job: Jó, personagem bíblico.

Fell: cortar, abater.

Flooding: inundação, enchente.

Rampant: devastador.

Wounds: feridas, ferimentos.


Questão:
5. Identify in the text “Why God hates Haiti” eight verbs in the simple present and two in the present continuous.

Answer 1

Resposta:

Simple present:

make

means

lives

practice

disobey

Present continuous:

flooding

asking