When bad things happen, it is human nature to always ask why. Patients always want to know why they have a colon cancer when one gets diagnosed. Most of the time there is not an answer.

It is interesting how many people think they must have done something that caused them to get a disease. There are diseases related to behavior but not everybody who ignores risks gets a disease.

Primitive man did not have the ability to understand why a plague came. There was also no understanding of natural disasters. Accidents are another thing where human nature seems to be to try and come up with an explanation.

Anyone who has ever read the Bible knows the stories of an angry God. A God that flooded the world. A God who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. A God that made his people wander in the wilderness. Almost every culture has stories of natural disasters coming down on humanity for their actions.

There are not too many countries in the world more ill-equipped than Haiti to deal with a major natural disaster. Earthquakes are particularly devastating because they come without warning. At least with a hurricane people can try to get out the way.

There is nothing that anybody in Haiti did to bring on the earthquake that destroyed Port Au Prince. It is a classic case of just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It is 2009 and the idea that natural disasters are God punishing us still lives. In the United States, that usually comes down to Pat Robertson. Reverend Robertson has now told us that Haiti was punished for striking a deal with the devil to be freed from French rule.

This is not anything new for Robertson. He believed Hurricane Katrina was punishment for abortions performed in the United States. He also joined Jerry Falwell after 9/11/2001 in believing the US was allowed to be hurt by enemies because of our sinful lifestyle.

Robertson is not alone in spinning things in bizarre ways.

Who can forget Reverend Jeremiah Wright blaming the US Government for "inventing HIV to commit genocide against colored people."

People never want to believe bad things just happen. That is part of what religion draws on. Faith is a way for people to survive what they cannot explain.

There are times when someone is to blame. In the case of 9/11 there is something to blame which is fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. The blame does not belong with the United States or Israel. People who try to blame people other than those who committed the act fall in the same category as Robertson.

When it comes to hurricanes or earthquakes or diseases there is nobody to blame.

The United States will do what it always does in Haiti. We will respond and likely expend more resources in helping than any other nation in the world. We will not expect gratitude which is good because we will not get it. Haitians are already blocking roads with corpses in protest of the relief being slow.

We would all be better off in the natural disaster world if we passed no judgement and just worked to improve the situation. Robertson should be using his resources to help Haiti instead of trying to spin it for political gain. It is sad when those who should understand it the best often understand it the least.