To Pat: Enough Is Enough!

Sometimes, you just have to throw up your hands and say, "this stupidity has gone on long enough."

Pat Robertson, addressing the people of Dover, Pennsylvania during a broadcast of his '700 Club' program, told them to not be surprised if a disaster struck their town because they had "Voted out God."

Of course, what those residents had really done is vote out school board members who favored 'Intelligent Design.'

"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," he told them. "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."

So much for omnipresent.

As a secularist, it makes me happy that people like Pat Robertson continue to make fools of themselves. Yet somehow, someway, people continue to follow them. Pat won't change. He's too headstrong and set in his ways. But what about his followers? Why are they persistently clinging to the words of this dimented madman? Why do they accept the same creationist crap he does? Is the need for feeling like a valued member of a community really that important?

Because if it is, the humanists would love to make them feel welcome -- and at least they won't tell them to march in lockstep!

Eric