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 President Hugo Chavez, one of President 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 1 million. It is also broadcast around the world, translated into more than 70 languages. In voting Tuesday, all eight school board members up for re-election in Dover, Pa., lost their seats after trying to introduce “intelligent design” to high-school science students as an alternative to the theory of evolution.
So, by voting to keep science classes...um, scientific, this town might, according to Robertson, incurred that wrath of God. Nowhere in teh Bible does it say, "thou shalt teach unscientific things in a science class" but it DOES say, "Thou shalt not kill". SO I wonder if urging that I foreign leader be assassinated, does Robertson himself incur the wrath of God as well?
Well, one can only hope.
POLT = listening to "Electioneering" by Radiohead
Don't be sexist...chicks hate that.
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