Pat Robertson to Dover Pennsylvania: "Don't turn to God if you Need Help"

You really couldn't make this kind of stuff up. Seriously. You don't need to really look to hard these days to find complete crackpots.

Pat Robertson; famous for calling for the assasination of president Hugo Chavez; for blaming 9/11 upon pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the ACLU and the People for the American Way;" for claiming to have directed the course of Hurricane Gloria which caused millions of dollars of destruction along the US' east coast in 1986; and made similar claims about Hurricane Felix in 1995; and my personal favorite: describing femanism as "a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians;" has again issued one of his PatWas.

No, I'm not making this stuff up.

"I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover," Robertson announced in a November 10th airing of The 700 club, "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."

There's compassionate conservativism for you. Apparently, feeling bad about his comments, Robertson later clarified: "God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in his eye forever. If they have future problems in Dover, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them."

Now, what's deliciously ironic about all this is that those who have been pushing the Intelligent Design Curriculum have been very careful to avoid any mention of the word "God" in any of their publications (although that sorta fell apart in the courts in Dover, when one of the witnesses on the stand admitted that he felt that the Intelligent Designer was the Christian God). The reason for this is pretty obvious: Intelligent Design, designed (no pun intended) to undermine the scientifically-sound theory of Evolution is basically just creationism made more politically correct. If you look at the Intelligent Design Network's Homepage, they offer the following:

We believe objectivity in the institutions of science, government and the media will lead not only to good origins science, but also to constitutional neutrality in this subjective, historical science that unavoidably impacts religion. We promote the scientific evidence of intelligent design because proper consideration of that evidence is necessary to achieve not only scientific objectivity but also constitutional neutrality.

On paper, that sounds pretty good. No mention of any of the standard biblical creation beliefs which would make Intelligent Design a violation of the establishment clause of the American Constitution.

Then Patty baby decides to go and blow all that hard work the ID proponents have been doing out of the water. According to them, Intelligent Design is merely the science of detecting evidence of design in nature; having nothing whatsoever to do with Pat Robertson's God. If we go by Robertson's reaction, it would seem that they were mistaken.