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October 9, 2014
Ark Encounter claims its constitutional rights are being violated
Answers in Genesis are firing back about the Kentucky Tourisms board actions that could result in the loss of an 18 million dollar tax incentive for the organizations new Ark Encounter theme park.
October 7, 2014
Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter tax incentives in jeopardy over hiring discrimination
According to an article published today in the Courier Journal, Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter may be losing its recent 18 million dollar tax incentive due to the discriminatory hiring practices that were uncovered and highlighted right here. “The Commonwealth doesn’t believe that Ark Encounter, LLC will be complying with state and Federal law in its [Read More...]
October 6, 2014
Ray Comfort calls Stephen Hawking a fool
I joked last week on Twitter that Ken Ham believes he is smarter than Stephen Hawking. Well this week, Ray Comfort has decided that he is. On his weekday video program The Comfort Zone, Comfort claimed Hawking cannot be one of the most brilliant men alive because: “The Bible says he is a fool.” This [Read More...]
October 3, 2014
Video: Bill O’Reilly suggests we round up all immigrants and quarantine them
Taking a page from Adolf Hitler, Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly suggests that President Obama should round up all the US immigrants and quarantine them over Ebola fears.
October 2, 2014
A street epistemology tutorial: How to reason people out of their faith (video)
This great video from Anthony Magnabosco explains how to talk people out of their faith in 5 minutes right on the street using the methods as described in Peter Boghossian's book, A Manual for Creating Atheists.
October 1, 2014
How a Catholic fails to understand the issue of Islamic violence
In a post over in Public Catholic, fellow Patheos blogger Rebecca Hamilton discusses the Oklahoma beheading and what she thinks she knows about the situation and apparently about Islam in general. Here are her 8 things and my comments on each. 1. Islam has a problem, and its [sic] a big, bad violent problem. Violence [Read More...]
September 29, 2014
John Oliver asks, ‘How is Ayn Rand still a thing?’
On Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver asks, “How is Ayn Rand still a thing?” The poster child for modern libertarianism is not what the right thinks she is, yes she is a proponent for selfishness, much like the Republican Party, but shewas also a pro-choice atheist who received government handouts. Not to mention a [Read More...]
John Cleese on the stupidity of Fox News
One of my comedic heroes growing up was John Cleese and today I still find him to be one of the funniest men alive. Here he is explaining the stupidity of those at Fox News.
Ken Ham is cheating Kentucky out of millions tax dollars
I have been investigating the fraudulent activities of Ken Ham and his Answers in Genesis organization and his newest venture The Ark Encounter in which Ham is using millions of dollars in tax rebates to build a theme park based on the genocidal flood story in Genesis.Ham has continued to deny any wrong doings and claims the project is not taking taxpayer money for this project, ignoring that by avoiding paying taxes, he is in fact taking money.
September 28, 2014
The week in religion 9.28.14
Nothing screams “militant” quite like the Robertson family over at “Duck Dynasty.” And now we have a chance to watch another member of the clan in action on C-SPAN, while his kin keep up their reality-show antics on A&E. Zach Dasher, Phil Robertson’s nephew, is running for a congressional seat in Louisiana. When asked why [Read More...]
