Televangelist Pat Robertson has apparently advised the good people of Dover, PA, who this week voted out a school board that had insisted on the introduction of "intelligent design" into science classes alongside Darwinian evolution, that they have also voted God out of their town. It seems that the not-so-good people of Dover, PA, are less than overwhelmed by Robertson's observation. Even one member of the voted-out school board had one or two unkind things to say about Robertson's warning.
Robertson, you will remember, recently called for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez which, one supposes, would be an act of Christian charity (though perhaps Chavez wouldn't see it that way). I couldn't confirm a rumor, propagated through one or two blogs, that Robertson blamed the recent catastrophic tornado in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky on Warren Beatty for having tried to crash one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's pre-special-election rallies in California; but Robertson did warn the city of Orlando, FL, several years ago that it could be hit by hurricanes, tornadoes and even meteors if it allowed gay pride flags to be flown along its streets.
(Since that time, God has hurled a number of hurricanes at Orlando to punish them for their sinfulness in ignoring Robertson. Luckily for Orlando, His aim has been consistently bad. Or perhaps God has simply been punishing the rest of Florida for almost voting for Al Gore in 2000.)
I don't remember how many circles there were in the Hell that Dante described in the Divine Comedy; let's call the number N. I suspect that there are now N + 1, where the N + 1th has recently been created for the most vile and obnoxious televangelists. Need I name names?