Dover Residents Unfazed By Robertson's Remark - The Patriot News

[WillyT]

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DOVER - With song, scripture and a sermon about "myths" that could destroy America, members of one church yesterday morning weren't worried about televangelist Pat Robertson's warning that God might not be there for Dover.

"My brother in Memphis e-mailed me asking if I was leaving Dover because God did," Dick Sweitzer chuckled before services at the Dover Assembly of God Church. "I told him no, we'll just kick the devil out of Dover!"

Yet...

"Evolution could not have happened," the Rev. David Sproull, pastor at Dover Assembly of God, said yesterday from an altar surrounded by a cross, flowers and the U.S. and Pennsylvania flags. "There are too many missing links. The head of the French Academy of Science says that evolution is a fairy tale for adults."

Sproull pointed to the irony of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in which Tennessee biology teacher John T. Scopes was fined $100 for violating a state law that forbade teaching evolution. Sproull said back then, some opposed teaching only one theory of creation, Christianity. "But we're doing the same thing today, except that Christianity is out and evolution is in," he said.

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Link: http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1131963653252551.xml&coll=1

Ya gotta wonder if some of these 'religious leaders' ever went to public school, or a public college, before getting frocked.

Announcers voice: "In a total reversal of fortune, the Christians fumbled the ball on the 20 yard line, and now the evolutionists are looking for blocks as they run the ball back up the field."

:shrug::wtf::shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

1. It is ridiculous

I am a Christian as people here know but I do believe in evolution and science. I am where Jimmy Carter stands basically on the issue and there is no denying there is mounts of evidence of evolution. Too many scientists agree with it. When do you ever hear scientists coming out and saying it's not true? :eyes: Just because I believe in evoultion doesn't mean I'm not disbelieving God. I believe God created everything thus including evolution. I don't get why these people are so threatned by science and learning about how things happened. That is what science is about. You can't prove God exists but you can't prove God doesn't exist either. It's my understanding that science is about proving a theory and showing how something happened.

[tmooses]

4. I see absolutely no difference between Robertson and his kind with all

the demagagues in history who played on prejudices and fear all in the name of religion to gain power. These "Christians" do not care about the country or doing good-they will care about their own ego's and power.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Is Dover anywhere near where that murder took place yesterday?

Just sayin . . . :evilgrin:

[melody]

3. 1 hour away but based on news God really has a woodie for Dallas this week

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/11/13/dallas_police_officer_fatally_shot_by_suspect_during_foot_chase/

That old feckless thug is just all over the map. I really think this is reason enough to outlaw fundamentalism right now. Any followers of this guy HAVE to be terrorists.

[kevinbgoode]

5. Now why would this Reverend dislike the idea of indoctrination?

After all, isn't that the entire "intelligent design" of his denominational beliefs?