Thursday, June 25, 2009

The excitement is just barely contained.

Our friend, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis and the father of the Creation Museum, is going to bring us a state of the nation address tonight at 8 pm, subtitled, THE COLLAPSE OF CHRISTIAN AMERICA. This will be something insurmountably ridiculous I'm sure.

The site states,

America has more Christian resources and Bible colleges than ever in its history, yet the nation is on a spiritual downward spiral. What has happened? Why is the church not reaching the culture today as it has in the past? Get the full report on June 25 at 8:00 p.m. as Ken, in his dynamic style, recounts the secularization of American culture and explains why we are losing generations from the church—why, in fact, they are already gone!
You know, I might usually just laugh at this as just so much hand-waving and chicken little garbage. But recent polling shows that 16% of Americans self-identify as non-religious. This is a huge shift from the past Pew and other surveys that have shown the religious "nones" to be ~8%. Maybe Ham does have something to worry about. More people are tired of the fundamentalist anti-reason and arm-waving garbage that clogs our airwaves.

I don't doubt for a second that he will ramble on about some ridiculous problems that evolution causes in the United States. He will likely claim that Christians are being attacked by a secular state and that a new state-sponsored religion of secular humanism is being placed on people by the government and a liberal evolutionist elite who are doing wicked anti-Biblical work. He might even be right.

Of course, I am speculating now. But given the incredible volume of anti-evolutionary, anti-science, anti-reason, and anti-liberal logorrhea he's produced over the years, I'll wager I'm right.

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