More on the Dover School Board removal.
From Slate:
Last Tuesday, voters in Dover, Pa., ousted advocates of intelligent design from their school board. Since then, two religious leaders who purport to know the designer have come forward, ostensibly on his behalf.
Those two would be Pope Benedict XVI and our favorite Evangelical hypocrite, Pat Robertson.
Still from Slate:
In Rome, Pope Benedict XVI chided people who, "fooled by atheism, believe and try to demonstrate that it's scientific to think that everything is free of direction and order." The pope recalled that in the Bible, "The Lord awakens the reason that sleeps and tells us: In the beginning, there was the creative word. In the beginning, the creative word--this word that created everything and created this intelligent project that is the cosmos--is also love."
Meanwhile, in Virginia, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson warned residents 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." Later, Robertson issued a statement explaining that "our spiritual actions have consequences. ... God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in his eye forever."
So God is tolerant and vengeful? At the same time? Not sure I follow this. Are they worshipping, speaking about, and communing with the same supreme being?
From IHPR (posted by Mike):
According to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, the reason that terrorists attacked New York on 9/11 was punishment for, "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays, and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America." Apparently, secularists in Dover, Pennsylvania, are responsible for the next wave of fire and brimstone that rains down on America.
I'll remember that.
I have a very hard time believing the God that both the Pope and Robertson is the same God I pray to. But then I am Episcopalian, and have no problem at all with a gay Bishop. But what do I know?