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Televangelist Robertson Warns Town of God's Wrath
Directs Words to Voters Who Ousted Pro-'Intelligent Design' School Board
By Alan Elsner, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Nov. 11) - Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them on Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.
KRT ''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.''
-- Pat Robertson, Nov. 2005
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Robertson, a former Republican presidential candidate and founder of the influential conservative Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Coalition, has a long record of similar apocalyptic warnings and provocative statements.
Last summer, he hit the headlines by calling for the assassination of leftist Venezuelan Present Hugo Chavez, one of President George W. Bush's most vocal international critics.
"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 his daily television show broadcast from Virginia, "The 700 Club."
"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," he said.
The 700 Club claims a daily audience of around one million. It is also broadcast around the world translated into more than 70 languages.
In voting on Tuesday, all eight Dover, Pennsylvania, school board members up for re-election lost their seats after trying to introduce "intelligent design" to high school science students as an alternative to the theory of evolution.
Adherents of intelligent design argue that certain forms in nature are too complex to have evolved through natural selection and must have been created by a "designer." Opponents say it is the latest attempt by conservatives to introduce religion into the school science curriculum.
The Dover case sparked a trial in federal court that gained nationwide attention after the school board was sued by parents backed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The board ordered schools to read students a short statement in biology classes informing them that the theory of evolution is not established fact and that gaps exist in it.
The statement mentioned intelligent design as an alternate theory and recommended students read a book that explained the theory further. A decision in the case is expected before the end of the year.
In 1998, Robertson warned the city of Orlando, Florida that it risked hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorist bombs after it allowed homosexual organizations to put up rainbow flags in support of sexual diversity.
11-11-05 03:25 EST
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and they wonder why a heathen world won't embrace the gospel.
ya can't reach people's hearts through advesarial postures and old testament fire and brimstone wrath of god judgement stuff.
the wrath of god is real. times have changed, not the true message of the gospel though. modern man, man of antiquity, whatever epoch we find ouselves in man needs to know about the redemptive and unconditional power of christs' love and NOT use ecclesiastically and ego driven agendas to forward ones ministry and get high holy sound bite. that doesn't give god any glory. it gives god a black eye.
c'mon rev robertson.
so the worlds soul collectiviely has a boulder tied between the cleft of its shoulder blade. so into that bleeding world of the lost and the damned why here's a little more hurt and pain and guilt, now look through this lense and tell me if you can see the love of god.
tell me how can one sense god when wading through the scorpion waters of ones public gaudy aggrandizements and private dissolutions, or should i say delusions.
for those who hath set themselves like a sword against the heart of the gospel, and god is beating his shoulders against an iron door, the iron door of some tele-evangelists propensity for slash and burn tactics. the tongue a writhing lariot of fire is no instrument of god. But i don't expect the dense pharasaical heart/intransigence to be pierced by these words.
been this way a long time now.
To be dead in deep anguish and suffocating in panic, and the hand that reaches for you with the gaudy ecclesiastical ostentiation of a large diamond on each finger as it closes and hits you deliberately square in the teeth is a horrible way to be indoctrinated to the gospel. "hey i got something to tell you, let me punch you in the throat to get your attention, guess what god loves you and so do i"
how can one reach those that live beneath those waters?
it is not god that has denied you justice my friend. it is man, and it is sometimes christians filled with the golden flame of righteous indignation and holy ardor recieved through the filter of thier own biases and drives that results in this kind of tragic zealousness that pushes wider and digs deeper the moat between the kingdom of god and the suffering of mankind and hence thier receptivity towards it.
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