[Ken Ham wants to take the rainbow back from teh ebil gayz]
As a Christian, I am happy to read this article. I think it's wonderful. I've often asked myself why the rainbow was the LGBT flag. And I agree with vonfirmath - we don't have to solve the world's problems before tackling smaller issues.
And why would anyone be embarrassed to be a Christian because of Ken ham? He's a very smart guy who supports and promotes a literal, 6-day creation and a young Earth. I like him a lot. We read lots of his books and articles.
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Your mind is well-trained in the same way that a rat can be well-trained to run on a wheel. His YEC is the "slow learners" class of christianity, and embarrassing to those educated Christians who see the bible as the primitive, clueless document that it is.
Answers in Genesis states explicitly that if science, history or any other field of human learning disagrees with the Bible then that information must be questioned, not the Bible. There's intellectual integrity for ya! And I regularly hear from Xtians that Xtianity has always been the real cause of scientific advancement.(snort.)
Ken Ham, when he left Australia for greener pastures, actually stole all the Money and the Mailing list of AiG (a Queesnsland based group) and left the local organisation with nothing. He is nothing but a crook.
Norm
...and followers of Odin wants to know why Christians want to use Bifrost Bridge as a symbol.
And why would anyone be embarrassed to be a Christian because of Ken ham? He's a very smart guy who supports and promotes a literal, 6-day creation and a young Earth.
Because he is a guy who supports and promotes a literal 6 day creation, and a young earth.
Why is the rainbow flag an LGBT symbol? Because it was invented by a man named Gilbert Baker, a patchwork job he did for Gay Lib, way back in Seventies San Francisco.
Now from Oz, which is over the rainbow, and the place where the Aborigines have worshiped the Rainbow Serpent for millennia, just let me say this: DON'T SEND HIM BACK! If Ham is such a smart guy, let the Yanks put up with him.
@Norm
I didn't know that, but it's not surprising.
@ Thirddrop
He was sued in a Supreme Court Case in Queensland which was settled out of court. I have lost my most relevant notes due to a computer passing away a few years back, and the then Board I posted it all on has ceased to be, but there is still stuff on the Internet if you wish to chase this up further. Start with Wiki and Google, or Google Ham + Carl Weiland,
Or Ham and Creation Ministries International. It's not something I really care about any more.
Norm
Your very smart Ham just got a little lesson on law. After getting the state to pretty much fund his Ark he decided to renege on the only payback he had to honor, 50 cent on every ticket. He sold his park from one division of AIG to another to avoid paying, I didn't think that was legal especially one day before the pay date and joy, joy I was right. The state says he's violated his tax agreement and are going after him.
Now thus could be stymied by a very RW governor and biased judges but I hope they stay out of it and find a way to put all incurred costs and state loses on Ham where it fucking belongs.
I'm visiting Jesusland, VA. I was just treated to an AiG TV show. Cartoon-illustrated ditty designed to brainwash the youngsters. Pseudoscience explanation of the alleged Great Flood. "Get 'em before they know any better!" - St. Ignatius Loyola (paraphrase)
11 other Holy Roller channels on Direct TV, and the feature story on a local news show was the Bible Cafe. (sigh)
Meanwhile, in other news, a VA man was apprehended. He was wanted for attempted murder and other charges. A stolen Dodge mini van is sought in connection to a robbery of a gun store. I don't see how this Bible stuff is making any difference.
Are you a well-trained little puppy, Megan, are you a good girl?
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The rainbow has all colors, signifying that all are welcome.
That's why the rainbow flag is the LGBT flag. Easy-peasy.
Well, the Hambone is pretty embarrassing... He's a whiny dolt with a fixation on Bill Nye, and his very own folly in Kentucky.
"he decided to renege on the only payback he had to honor, 50 cent on every ticket"
From what I have heard about the drop-off of attendance for this attraction, that means the state is losing out on potential dollars a day
@Thirddrop: If Australian civil law is anything like other common-law jurisdictions (always a tricky question), he probably didn't so much steal an asset he wasn't entitled to as misuse one he was entitled to. That is, he or his agents were given AiG assets with the expectation that they would use them in some way (presumably to further the organization and its goals, etc.) and they used it in some other way - that's not theft per se, but a breach of fiduciary duty, a civil offense for which you get sued rather than arrested. (Which actually works out better. If he got arrested, it'd be on the Australian government to pay to haul him back for a trial; when he got sued, any costs of his defense were on him until/unless he could demonstrate that he deserved otherwise... which I sincerely doubt a judge would look favorably on given the nature of the allegations.)
@CuriousAndMoreCurious: And yet he still won't pay them whatever paltry sum that no doubt comes out to. There's tightfisted and then there's this...
"And why would anyone be embarrassed to be a Christian because of Ken ham? He's a... guy who supports and promotes a literal, 6-day creation and a young Earth."
Well, to start, he's a guy who supports and promotes a literal, 6-day creation and a young Earth.
@fromdownunder
I know eh?
Yet he, and Ray Comfort from New Zealand will tell their history as 'came to America to bring the word of the gospel to the people'
Riggggght,,
Came to America's bible belt, the mecca of pre-trained Young Earth fundamentalists, to spread the word that so thick already you can't get away from it.
The 'Shooting fish in a barrel' ministries.
I wonder if these Jesus freaks had ever heard of preschool show called "Rainbow" which had a camp (gay?) hippo called George.
hahahhahaha the Fundies reaction its called "Rainbow" and the hippo.
Reboot it! Just see the Fundies faces.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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