It's Monday, March 11, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The nation of Haiti is only about 700 miles from the city of Miami in Florida, but you really

are looking at the breakdown of civilization there on that Western tip of the island known

as his paniola and as you're looking at Haiti's breakdown we're facing some

very significant signs of human misery but we're also looking at some basic worldview

questions about what is necessary in order to have a civilization, to have a

working government, to have a functioning society.

All these things basically have broken down in Haiti, and even though the urgency has come

just in recent days with a nearly complete breakdown of the political and the entire cultural system, the reality

is this has been long in coming.

And we need to look at a bit of history here in order to set the stage for a worldview consideration.

If you asked a question of where the modern understanding of this story begins, well, you know the

date already.

It's 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue because it was to the island known as

hispaniola that Columbus came at least in part as well documented the

Columbus relationship to this island and over time Christopher Columbus's son

actually established a functioning government as an outpost of Spain on that

island and you would eventually under Spanish influence have the nation known as the Dominican Republic on the eastern side of the island and on the western end you have under French influence Haiti as it became.

Now on both sides of the island there was involvement in the slave trade

but what's really crucial is to understand that when you look at the Dominican

Republic today and you look at Haiti today,

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