All eight incumbents were defeated by eight challengers one year after a policy change by the Dover school board included a statement about intelligent design in its science classes.
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All eight incumbents were defeated by eight challengers one year after a policy change by the Dover school board included a statement about intelligent design in its science classes.
Dear Defeated Dover, Pennsylvania School Board Members,
I read today that Pat Robertson has warned the voters of Dover that disaster may strike there because they “voted God out of your city” by ousting school board members who favored teaching intelligent design.
It’s likely Pat’s got his timing off: the only disaster seems to have come to you eight, who pushed God a little too far.
Given that the newly elected board members are all qualified, religious people (not an atheist in the bunch) one can surmise that your failure to be reelected is part of God’s plan.
After all, the universe is too complex to have such things happen accidentally.
My guess is that it is God’s will that those like you, who seek to take the first step towards ecclesiastical censorship in our schools, do not succeed.
He’s probably still angry over the actions of the church in years past in persecuting scientists.
When one considers how religious zealots have used God’s name to condemn (and in some cases, murder) Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Halley, Darwin, Hubble, and even Bertrand Russell, it makes sense that God wants to keep science and man’s interpretation of His will separate.
He has a right to be mad: the Church has been on the wrong side of the social sciences for over 1,500 years, actively promoting slavery, anti-Semitism, the torture and murder of women as witches, sexual repression, censorship and the Inquisition, Crusades and other aggressive wars, and capital punishment for misdemeanors.
You may be  apologetics and defend the these errors, claiming that science and Christianity are compatible friends, not enemies. But, the atrocities and scientific errors were too profound, and stretched on for too many millennia, to be defended in any reasonable manner, even by God.
I would think, had your group lived during the beginning of our Republic, you would have joined with those good Christians who assailed Benjamin Franklin for “robbing God of his judgment by inventing the lightning rod.â€
Now, Pat Robertson might not agree (he probably still believes, like so many used to that comets are not celestial bodies obeying the laws of physics; but fireballs thrown in anger from the right hand of God, messengers of doom and despair) that being so soundly defeated in this election is God’s plan.
But from the looks of it, God has spoken. Loudly and firmly.
And if you find that defeat tests your belief in God, I sincerely hope you take heart, see this as a form of Holy Deliverance and use the experience to question why God voted you down.
It could be your first step towards enlightenment.
Regards,
Michael Kirby
Well put.
Here’s the humorous take of what you just wrote:
http://www.venganza.org/