18 April 2007 @ 06:53 pm
 
He just has no limits.

We live in an era when public high schools and colleges have all but banned God from science classes. In these classrooms, students are taught that the whole universe, including plants and animals—and humans—arose by natural processes. Naturalism (in essence, atheism) has become the religion of the day and has become the foundation of the education system (and Western culture as a whole). The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people’s thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows the killing of the unborn, the more we will see people treating life in general as “cheap.”

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Jesus was reminding people that every person will one day die, and that they need to be ready! Those who were killed by this tower in Luke 13 didn’t know that when they arose that morning, it would be their day to die. The Lord Jesus, in saying “unless you repent,” was reminding everyone that they needed to be sure they were ready to face eternity.

This is disgusting on so many levels.

Thirty-three people dead. Thirty-three individuals, with their whole lives ahead of them, murdered. However, Ken Ham apparently thinks this is the perfect subject to use in the pursuit of supporting his ill-informed ideology. Where's his basic sense of human compassion? Did he just not think about the pain that others must be going through right now?

He's going too far when he implies that science education is somehow a catalyst for this shooting. Sure, he qualifies the paragraph by stating that he isn't saying that belief in evolution was what drove the attack -- but he definitely implies it. He slaps atheism, materialism, science, evolution, and abortion together, and suggests that schools need more religion in them. How can he so callously use this tragedy to promote his politics?

Then he ends the article with a talk about how everyone will die, and how they really should convert to Christianity. It's a classic conversion tactic -- get people while they're mourning and afraid.  He supplies whoever will listen with the perfect targets to blame for society's troubles -- atheism and science. It's emotional blackmail.

I just can't believe it. I just can't. Is there anything that he won't abuse, put a misleading spin on, or outright lie about in order to further his agenda?
 
 
Current Mood: pissed off
 
 
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ossobucco[info]ossobucco on April 18th, 2007 11:49 pm (UTC)
I'd never heard of this person until I hit your link.

I find it hard to believe anybody would take this asshole seriously.
Fledgling Orgiophant: dragon[info]parazel on April 19th, 2007 01:03 am (UTC)
I find it hard to believe that anyone would take him seriously, too. Unfortunately, since Answers in Genesis is a bastion of Christian creationism and anti-evolutionism (along with anti-materialism, anti-atheism, and so on), some people are bound to read his words and feel truth ringing in them. People already believe his lies about science, which can quickly be dispelled just by picking up an actual biology book -- and so I fear that some will, in fact, take this seriously, and not see just what is so wrong with it. I have a friend who reads websites like this... maybe he's already seen this article, and knowing him, he would agree with it. (He's the type that copies and pastes fallacious arguments from websites into emails, too!) Anyways... that was a tangent. The point is, some people do take him seriously.
A[info]descartes_rock on April 19th, 2007 12:18 am (UTC)
Yeah, it's pretty base to exploit tragedy like that.

I'm very disappointed in your kittens. I've never heard such language coming from kittens!
Fledgling Orgiophant: *lick*[info]parazel on April 19th, 2007 01:05 am (UTC)
Well... here's a nicer kitty. :D
rantankerous gambade: THINK - or I will set you on fire[info]woodburner on April 19th, 2007 01:35 am (UTC)
It's the same sort of depravity you find everywhere in political activists and advocates for any sort of cause under the sun. Everyone has to twist everything to suit their world view. This guy's just a little more ridiculous than the rest, and tries to call his depravity "morality." It's like that guy who obsesses over every violent crime anywhere ever being because of video games.

Incidentally, your icon is hilarious.
Arvind Narayanan[info]arvindn on April 19th, 2007 03:47 am (UTC)