Will someone please tell Pat Robertson that his 15 minutes are up

Of all the most sactimonious condesending dickheads in the world, televanglist Pat Robertson is one of the worst.

Lemme set the stage: in a small town in Pennsylvania, eight members of the school board decided that they want all the schools in their district to teach "intelligent design" alongside evolution. They were up for re-election and all eight lost. (my thoughts on ID are grist for another column -- perhaps Dr. S will opine). Here's the story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they "voted God out of your city" by ousting school board members who favored teaching intelligent design.

All eight Dover, Pa., school board members up for re-election were defeated Tuesday after trying to introduce "intelligent design" - the belief that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power - as an alternative to the theory of evolution.

"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."

Somehow, Mr. Robertson has come to believe that teaching science is rejecting God. And I thought that only Islamic fascists were living in the dark ages.

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