I was very interested by Pat Robertson's remarks following the elections at the beginning of Novemeber where all of the Intelligent Design school board members were voted out in Dover, PA. For those of you that forgot, Pat said the following:
"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... And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there."
Needless to say, I have been waiting with anticipation to see how God planned to smote the non-believers. Here is where things stand:
November 15:
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Tornadoes hopscotched across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee Tuesday. The bad weather injured dozens of people and is blamed for two deaths. An Indiana teen-ager died when her car flipped over on a flooded road and landed upside down in a ditch. Another person was killed in Kentucky when a trailer home blew over and caught fire.
Yesterday:
LESTERVILLE, Mo. - The stone retaining wall around a huge mountaintop reservoir in the Ozarks collapsed before daybreak Wednesday, releasing a billion-gallon torrent of water that swept away at least two homes and several vehicles and critically injured three children, authorities said.
Today:
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A blast of freezing rain across Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday closed schools, snarled traffic and caused power outages to more than 450,000 customers. At least one death was blamed on the storm when an ice-laden tree crashed through a man's house.
So it would appear that the tally since the election is:
Red States smote by God: 7
Blue States smote by God: 1 (Illinois)
Number of times Dover, PA has been smote by God: 0
If one were to embrace a belief in intelligent design, wouldn't this tend to suggest that the "creator" isn't too cool with what is happening in his/her name in these red states?