There is a special feeling of hatred that I reserve for certain people. Folks who have oodles of unacknowledged privilege, and use that privilege to promote ignorance and hatred towards vulnerable people, often in the name of their religion. Ken Ham is one of those people. His insistence upon layers-upon-layers of willful ignorance being taught as truth to children. His insistence that homeless LGBT teens need “hellfire and brimstone” speeches instead of food and shelter. His Bible theme park museum is spewing such dangerous misinformation and anti-science that it made a paleontologist cry.
But, according to Ham, I’m just an angry atheist:
Atheism–a blind religious faith preaching hopelessness, meaningless and utterly bankrupt re any ultimate purpose for living whatsoever
— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) April 17, 2016
Well, Mr Ham certainly is the expert on blind religious faith.
And now his newest venture: The Ark Encounter in Kentucky. It has cost tens of millions of dollars, with millions coming directly from Kentucky taxpayers, not to mention the for-profit Bible theme park’s tax-exempt status.
89 days until Ark Encounter opens!!! 🙂 Are you excited to see the finished Ark? pic.twitter.com/cRnrVkWRpb
— Ark Encounter (@ArkEncounter) April 9, 2016
In honor of the Ark Encounter opening, Twitter users have stepped up to help Ken Ham come up with a pithy yet accurate slogan.
'If at first you don't succeed, drown everyone & start again.'#ArkEncounterSlogan
— Brendan Black ?☕️ (@MrBrendanBlack) April 14, 2016
Sounds about right to me!
Come for the science-denial, stay for the ham. #ArkEncounterSlogan
— ModernDino (@EvolvedTRex) April 13, 2016
Pay no attention to the reinforced concrete and steel behind the curtain. Nothing to see here.
— The Kryptonian (@KalSonofJorEl) April 13, 2016
Also, forget about all the modern heavy equipment used to build the ark. It’s not like the Ark Encounter can be expected to be authentic in their methods and equipment, or anything.
https://twitter.com/_Mr_Merrick/status/720367373602131968
And you can be sure he’ll be represented as white, like all of the Garden of Eden residents in Ken Ham’s Creationist “museum.”
Because we can't charge admission to $100M homeless shelter#ArkEncounterSlogan
— Disgruntled IT Girl (@Shy_Fox_) April 13, 2016
“And why would we want to bother building a homeless shelter anyway? Then we’d have to serve homeless LGBT folks. It’s much better to build a Bible theme park, then we don’t even have to hire LGBT folks!”
Got questions? Get out! #ArkEncounterSlogan
— ???????? (@McAtheist) April 13, 2016
Sums it up perfectly.
Incest & Genocide! Praise the Lord!
— Rainbows & Unicorns (@Betsy_Manning) April 13, 2016
#ArkEncounterSlogan: "If you're already in Kentucky, let visiting the Ark Encounter be the SECOND terrible decision you've made lately."
— Take Bat Darwin (@TakeThatDarwin) April 13, 2016
So there you have it, Ark Encounter marketing team: surely one of those will strike just the right note, combining the ignorance that you are hoping to cultivate along with the cognitive dissonance of your blind religious fervor.
Featured image is a screengrab via YouTube.
