Sunday, December 20, 2020

History Please, Not Hamstory

The authority and rule driven
Ken Ham
In the following post....

https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2020/12/19/phil-vischer-veggietales-creator-responds/

......we find Ken Ham once again failing to acknowledge the Seventh Day Adventist connection in the origins of AiG's Young Earthism. I've looked into this subject before. See here:

https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2017/02/history-no-more-like-hamstory.html

I've caught Ken peddling his distorted picture of reality on more than one occasion. See here:

 https://viewsnewsandpews.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-distorting-lens-of-fundamentalism.html

Let's also bear in mind that Ken is prepared to dish out quite severe spiritual abuse on those who disagree with him. He is looking more and more like a cult leader.   See here*:

http://viewsnewsandpews.blogspot.com/2017/02/holy-bad-mouthing.html

....and here:

http://viewsnewsandpews.blogspot.com/2020/09/calling-down-hell-and-hamnation-on.html

If Ken himself or if AiG are attacked he tends to portray it as ad hominem and/or an attack on Christianity. See here:

http://viewsnewsandpews.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-pot-calls-kettle-black.html

....and here:

https://viewsnewsandpews.blogspot.com/2013/03/hell-and-hamnation-ii.html

Also of interest to me is this recent post by Ken:

https://answersingenesis.org/culture/will-biden-make-more-secular-america/

In this post the innuendo is that Joe Biden's administration is in danger of ushering in the strong secular  measures advocated by a group within the Democratic party who call themselves  the Secular Democrats of America. Within any such party there are going to be factions with varying and sometimes extreme views. The Democratic Party aren't going to be an exception to the common human tendency toward factionalism.  The Labour party of the UK have all but Marxist factions within the party but the leader Sir Keir Starmer is certainly not a Marxist any more than the Catholic and devout Joe Biden is a strong secular atheist; in fact he's really disliked by the American left-wing.  So once again we find the Trump supporting Ken Ham offering up a distorted picture of reality; in fact needless to say Ken overlooks the extreme factions within Republicanism such as Donald Trump himself who has the CV and personal traits of a corrupt, lying, egotistical, conspiracy theory wielding dictator-in-waiting (See here) with side-kicks like Michael Flynn who advocate re-running the American election in the swing states using military force.  But let me not convey a selectively distorted picture of reality (as does Ham) and acknowledge that Trump and Flynn are not necessarily representative of other Republican supporters.


Footnote

* In this connection it's worth following through the links here to see how Ham spiritually abuses a Christian geologist who disagrees with him.