Posted on 11/10/2005 1:33:57 PM PST by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at wgal.com ...
The periodic table.
I've explained multiple times now.
That's an interesting question.The Table gave rise to hypotheses that "missing" elements would be found with expected characteristics, and to some extent this happened.
However the Table itself was never explanatory, and there's a whole section that went kablooy in terms of expectations.
It's interesting that someone would consider the Table a theory or a fact.
This Week in God is nothing without Stephen Colbert anymore. I am secretly hoping his show fails so that he'll come back to the Daily Show just to do that.
Do you really need this elucidated? The politics in NO and LA has been crooked for a very, very long time. LA and particularly NO are ongoing Socialist nightmares. Enough said, or are you still without understanding?
"9/11 was America's fault too."
Get a brain, man! 9/11 had nothing to do with misappropriation of funds. There's no relation between the evil actions and inactions in NO and LA politics and the evildoers' acitons on 9/11.
Gotcha??? Please read post #286 and try to understand to the best of your abilities. I prayed before writing this post that the Lord would allow me to impart to those angry and juvenile viewers who question His sovereignty and wisdom this small glimpse of His ways that He has revealed to us ALL through His Word. I'm just another all-too-human Christian with an all-too-humanly tiny intellect. It would be simple enough to intellectually joust and triumph with other posters over minutiae, but what good would that accomplish? Better for us all is to appreciate with a long view the meaning in suffering so that maybe someone who is bereaved or impaired or despairing or cynically pretending numbness can know the context of life as uncovered in His Word.
Sadly, if you are truly numb to caring, there is a point of "hardening one's neck, and that without reproof." This is the state of being permanently lost, and it is something that only He Who knows the innermost of the hearts and the minds can determine. It is not surely ascertainable by any human. What IS surely ascertainable is that God is good, and He knows of our suffering, and He knows what He is doing (again, post #286).
NO. The whole point of facts is to establish science.
During it's formation classifications and distinguishing of elements had to be determined.
I have explained you're just either very dense or fisihing for a specific response to prattle on with one of your canned responses.
jennyp: "Really? You believe that Katrina's devastation was mostly caused by evildoers? Do tell."
You: "Do you really need this elucidated? The politics in NO and LA has been crooked for a very, very long time. LA and particularly NO are ongoing Socialist nightmares. Enough said, or are you still without understanding?
-- From your post 326:
Oztrich Boy: "9/11 was America's fault too."
You: "Get a brain, man! 9/11 had nothing to do with misappropriation of funds. There's no relation between the evil actions and inactions in NO and LA politics and the evildoers' acitons on 9/11."
Some questions:
Why does God use hurricanes in particular to punish (1) "socialist nightmares" and (2) "misappropriation of funds"?
If God sends hurricanes in particular to punish "socialist nightmares" and "misappropriation of funds," how come neither the USSR nor Chicago were leveled by hurricanes a long time ago?
Does God use other specific weather-weapons to punish other specific types of evildoers (for example, tornadoes to punish crooked district attorneys, or maybe adulterers; lightening to punish highway contractors who use cheap concrete; blizzards to generally punish Unitarians in St. Paul; etc.)?
you don't understand
and you still don't understand.
you'll probably never understand, but pray and you might find understanding.
I wash my hands of you.
I'm not scared of crazy people. Don't congratulate yourself in failure. It only makes you looks foolish....
What you call a baseless ad-hominem, I refer to as a Scientific observation with a predictable response.....
cukoo-cukoo....
Do you really need this elucidated? The politics in NO and LA has been crooked for a very, very long time. LA and particularly NO are ongoing Socialist nightmares. Enough wasn't said. Astonishingly, you (and you alone) are still without understanding! Try very, very hard to think...
OK. The levees in NO were ineffective because the DemWits who have controlled that city as well as the state of LA for decades have not improved or even properly maintained them. The poverty, ignorance, and listlessness of the victims is borne from the weight of the boot of Socialism, which has ruled in this region since the days when Huey Long's demagoguery captured the snickers and votes of the wretched and childish who thought this madman to be cute when they heard him on the radio or saw him pounding the air with his fist in newsreels (1930's). The immediate inept response to the first day or two of crisis and both the preceding and the ensuing hapless administration of the organs of government exacerbated an already horrific circumstance. Can you take it from here??
Perhaps you should have read post #286 and thought about it. Were you thinking of evildoing? The perps (id est, the responsible evildoers--don't blame God) are the purveyors of Socialist utopian nonsense who dupe DemWits into giving them and their crooked associates power over their wellbeing and over the direction of their lives.
Sure. God had nothing to do with Katrina. How's that?
In that He is the omniscient Creator, the opportunity for suffering by tempest was foreknown. Indeed, the opportunities for sufferings in toto et al vivi were foreknown. Post #286 addresses this. Also, in that He is omnipotent, He allows evildoers to practice vile works mainly so that "iniquity can come to the full" without the significant remorse that works self-reform. Thence, His justice is perfect in continued forgiveness until "the neck is hardened, and that without reproof."
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