Conservative Christian evangelist Pat Robertson has upped the ante in the Dover, PA “Intelligent Design” court case. After local residents voted out 8 school board members who had promoted ID, Robertson warned the town that God might smite the town in retribution.
“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.”
Later Thursday, Robertson issued a statement saying he was simply trying to point out that “our spiritual actions have consequences.”
That’s a comforting thought. Piss off God, and he’ll come after you like Tony Soprano. I wonder what Robertson had in mind. Flood? Fire? Plague of lawyers?
“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.”
This from the same voice of religious moderation that called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and blowing up the State Department with a nuclear bomb. He also said that feminism causes women to “kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”