Pat Robertson has a message for Dover, PA: Don't ask God to help.

WGAL.com ^ | 11.10.05 | WGAL

[conserv13]

DOVER, Pa. -- Pat Robertson had a special message for residents of Dover, Pa., today after voters there elected to boot the current school board, which instituted an intelligent design policy that led to a federal trial.

Robertson made the comment after Lee Webb of CBN News delivered a report on how residents in Dover voted in eight new Democratic board members, replacing all eight current members who had voted for a policy that required students in ninth-grade biology classes to hear a statement on intelligent design before hearing lessons on evolution. Webb then asked Robertson what he thought about the vote.

Here was Robertson's response.

"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. 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."

[Siena Dreaming]

Well, if you're a reader of the Bible, you'll see that God used drought, famine, war etc. to get people's attention.

God is still the God of the Bible.

[silverleaf]

I don't see anything illogical about Pat Robertson's commment.

If God is out, He's out and any public invocation, in event of tragedy or peril in Dover, should logically cite another source of solace. "The brotherhood of man" perhaps.

[azhenfud]

Psalm 147 disputes that.

[conserv13]

I understand that, I don't believe in the Bible. I think its just a bunch of fairy tales. That is just what I think though, I don't mean to belittle other peoples beliefs.

Maybe when I say he's 'nuts' I am belittling his or your beliefs and I did not mean it that way.

[RadioAstronomer]

but the Christian-haters will always show up to bash Robertson, Dobson, Franklin, etc....

Hate Christians? Not a chance in this world. But comment about these guys when they say really stupid stuff like this? Yes.

There was a day when you would NEVER see that on FR....but times have changed.

Flapdoodle.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Probably a statement of frustration over people's spiritual blindness. The good news is when the Sons of God appear, with the seven fold anointing of the Holy Spirit. They will heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out devils, WITHOUT FAIL. Then the final call will be made to humanity to accept or reject His Kingdom. Those who accept will be blessed, and those who reject will be subject to real biblical wrath as described in Revelations. But until they are revealed, man's fallen condition, with all its effects, will continue to afflict mankind.

[LibKill]

Wasn't Pat Robertson one of the traitors who said that America DESERVED 9/11?

[RadioAstronomer]

But weather doesn't have free will. He will use it to get attention if that's what it takes to shake people up if needed.

Sorry. Don't buy it.

[orionblamblam]

>"If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God..."


This is, in fact, ALWAYS good advice. When there's a disaster... FIX YOUR PROBLEMS! Do not turn to help from gods or governments. You probably won't get it. Cultivate the ability to deal with the real world without calling for help all the time.

[RadioAstronomer]

And be prepared. :-)

[Siena Dreaming]

Don't worry I don't feel belittled.

But the Bible really is a fascinating book, a record of how God has worked through history.

It's encouraging to know that He wants to have personal relationship. Quite comforting to understand that truth.

[mak5]

Yeah, but He teases Pat Robertson once in a while. Otherwise how can we explain Pat's false prophecy in 1991, when he said that god told him that there would be an economic boom and a landslide reelection of George H.W. Bush.

[MikefromOhio]

"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.

That's right stupid of him. I wish he would STOP talking for Christians. And he PROBABLY wonders why some people have bad opinions of him too.....

Also, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't saying something like this a sin itself as according to the Bible?

[cowdog77]

I don't know if Pat's nuts or not.....but I think it would be terrific if he was right!

[dmanLA]

"Teaching science is spitting in God's eye? Your god is not my God, apparently."

Teaching evolution as the 'Origin of Life' is spitting in God's eye. Have you read your Bible lately?

[Bigh4u2]

"I would NEVER presume to speak for the Lord."

And yet, Moses did.

[springing interest]

So. since God controls everything, He must have sent Katrina and Rita to our friends on the Gulf Coast?

[dmanLA]

"Wasn't Pat Robertson one of the traitors who said that America DESERVED 9/11?"

And America is still sleeping....

[orionblamblam]

> since God controls everything, He must have sent Katrina and Rita to our friends on the Gulf Coast?

Apparently God was annoyed that those regions are so religious compared to, say, hurricane-free New York and San Francisco.

[NorCalRepub]

maybe God confused Pat with Jimmy Swaggart on that one.....LOL