That omni-benevolent, all-forgiving God of the Far Right

[pecunium]

Just in case you doubted that the entire, "Intelligent Design" idea was a stalking horse for teaching religion as science, Pat Robertson is here to keep you from wondering.

He also wants you to know how God reacts to people who flout him by thinking just maybe religion and science ought not be treated as equivalent ideas.

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Courtesy of People for the American way we get to hear Pat tell us that by turning out those eight school board members, and replacing them with folks who are against the teaching of ID as science, the good people of Dover have, turned away from God and,> "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.”

Yep.

Forget it Faustus, you toyed with sin, so you get to suffer; and if God should elect to visit Dover, Penn. with plagues (a la Egypt) don't think repenting is going to help, because you turned away from Him, so you deserve a whole lot more than you're likely to get. They had their chance and they blew it. The rest of us can just be persuaded, by their suffering, not to question people like Falwell, and Robertson, who know what God did, and wants.

I wonder, should Dover happen to flourish, if Robertson, and his ilk; those folks who believe God meddles in everyday affairs, and every little thing that happens is not merely noted, but actively caused (which means those who want, Job-like to rail against inequities, can call Him on the carpet for That Tuesday, but I digress) will be chastened by that thriving; what with them refusing to teach God's (er, the designer's) cheating to avoid something so elegant as evolution.

Comments

[red-silk-robe.livejournal.com]

I can remember sitting in my senior civics class in Texas when Pat Robertson decided to run for president.

Suddenly barefoot, pregnant, and living in Tasmania seemed like a *REALLY* good thing to do

Meanwhile, I've run across this group: http://www.defconblog.org/

DefCon : defending the Constitution from the Religious Right. They have some pointed things to say about Kansas, Dover, PA. and a few other assaults. They don't have my money yet, but I am trying to figure out their effectiveness as a voice.

[jennae.livejournal.com]

Ugh - I came sooo close to starting off on my standard logical reaction to this kind of thought pattern, but it is so unproductive it's not worth it.

*sigh*

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

The best thing about Pat Robertson is that the real Pat Robertson is better than the Onion Pat Robertson.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Love the icon.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

All credit goes to geekling.

[chuuchuu.livejournal.com]

I normally lurk but might I add that Cardinal Poupard, presumably expressing sentiment of the Holy See, said that "The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no scientific aim." Sounds to me that he is equating fundamentalism with religious red-neckedness.

It seems Pat Robertson is demonstrating most un-Christian like sentiments publicly. He could just express his personal disappointment and practice a bit of compassion/forgiveness as evangelists and missionaries are meant to do but he chooses adversarial and entrenched positions that are hardly consistent with being a peaceful (which goes above and beyond non-violence) and diplomatic man of God. Is he a closet Wahabbist?

[honormac.livejournal.com]

Now, who on earth would write about something like this...? *grins & hugs*

And in response to the above, yes, I think what the Catholic church (through the tenative vessle of plausible deniability) is trying to say is exactly "Those American fundamentalist rednecks are idiots, evolution is obviously real, therefore it's obvious god uses evolution as a tool... There is no shortage of metaphore in scripture, get. over. it."

They've had a lot more experience with the whole "being conclusively proven wrong when you cling to tightly to literal scriptural meanings" department. Given the track record of religion, I think they're being downright progressive... Although, this is essentially the same conclusion I came to when I was an uncomfortable blend of catholic, mormon, and eleven or twelve years old.