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| Ken still hasn't acknowledged the Trump menace. |
In a video entitled "What is the role of Government" (17th October), Ken Ham, supremo of the Answers in Genesis (AiG) young earthist theme park, gives his views on the role of Government. For a Christian of many years standing Ken's teaching about government is basic and not particularly controversial from a Christian angle (leaving aside Ken's references to young earthism & his naturally authoritarian character *1). However, given the kind of policy supported by the Republican party it is very likely that Ken votes Republican; there's nothing wrong with that: He lives in a democracy and is free to argue for the Republicans.
Under normal circumstances I wouldn't find Ken's video particularly remarkable but the political situation in the US is far from normality: Currently the Republican party is not just a party supporting the more conservative and traditional values that Ken prefers: That's because at the present time Republicanism is hosting a monstrous parasitic cuckoo in the nest, a monster that is destabilizing the world order, a world that in any case so often finds itself teetering on edge of conflict. So, why isn't Ken talking about the Whitehouse's abuse of government? I suspect that its because Ken knows that his AiG bread is buttered in part by Trump supporting evangelical MAGArites; in short he can't afford to alienate MAGArism. Unfortunately given the political situation in the US a vote for the Republicans in the primaries is now vote for the narcissistic parasite occupying the Whitehouse. That parasite is creating a traitorous regime that is hostile to the Western democratic alliance and is apparently in favour of the tyrant that resides in the Kremlin.
When I saw the front page of Ken's video (See picture above) my first thought was that perhaps Ken was at last calling Trump to order, but no, he simply effectively promotes the Republican party and stays silent about MAGArism. It is the misfortune of the Republican party that a vote for them in primaries is a vote for MAGArism and therefore by implication a vote for the Kremlin. When Republicanism has at last purged itself of a parasitic pathogen Ken can comfortably go back to promoting Republicanism to his heart's content.
Footnote
*1 Ken fails to acknowledge that what he believes to be God's word only comes through the filter and interpretation of his very human world view, as it does for all of us. Therefore what he stridently refers to as God's Word is in fact Ken's word and therefore should be administered with epistemic humility rather than with the fundamentalist cultic arrogance that he is accustomed to. Let's not forget the bad mouthing Ken gives to Christians he disagrees with:
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