I've seen this on the news and blogsites, but I haven't really commented on it--at least not yet. This is from Yahoo News:
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they "voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching intelligent design.
All eight Dover, Pa., school board members up for re-election were defeated Tuesday after trying to introduce "intelligent design" — the belief that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power — as an alternative to the theory of evolution.
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected him from your city," Robertson said on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club."
Eight families had sued the district, claiming the policy violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The federal trial concluded days before Tuesday's election, but no ruling has been issued.
Later Thursday, Robertson issued a statement saying he was simply trying to point out that "our spiritual actions have consequences."
"God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in his eye forever," Robertson said. "If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them."
Robertson made headlines this summer when he called on his daily show for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
I'm not sure what to say, except that Pat Robertson is a fricking lunatic! So Pat, what's going to happen to Dover when God decides to punish them for not allowing your intelligent design nonsense into Dover's public schools? What's it going to be--fire and brimstone raining from the sky? A plague of locusts? Or how about a major earthquake that will break apart Dover, and cause the city to fall into the ocean--Oh wait, that's reserved for us liberals in California. Give a lunatic a big enough megaphone, and God knows what's going to come out of his mouth.
The scary part of this is that there's plenty of Americans who tune into the 700 Club, and actually believe this dribble.
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