It’s obvious that the one thing that is keeping Answers in Genesis afloat is that they’ve tapped into the same vein of fear and lunacy that Donald Trump draws strength from — so today Ken Ham posted cartoons to show all the things the rabid right fears most.
In the catastrophic storm of moral relativism that is sweeping the West, how do we raise generations who will not be swept away in the storm? We need to ensure they are anchored in the Word of God–anchored with answers to the skeptical questions of our day, taught a… pic.twitter.com/jatmaGFA8z
— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) April 29, 2019
It’s a little weird that he’s got “male and female restrooms” whirling around in his imaginary tornado, and it’s a rather incoherent soup of words (is “creation” contributing to the chaos as much as “racism”?), but it’s also revealing. None of those words leave me feeling confused. Apparently, though, poor Ken and his cult-like followers want all the ideas to stop challenging them so he can cuddle up to his biblical anchor.
Lying is bad except when you’re lying for Jesus. Isn’t that moral relativism?
Why does the “transgender gender” guy look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo?
Yes, in the stormy seas of life you can be tossed and turned and it can be difficult, but remember that if it’s ever too much, you can just grab hold of an anchor and your troubles will soon be over.
I don’t think these guys really think their metaphors through.
Why would the HAMster be against polygamy? Those bible fables are strongly in favor of polygamy. Of course other parts of the bible are not even pro-marriage. Trying to analyze the HAMster’s “thinking” is a gross exercise in futility.
I believe he’s talking about Trump’s sexual conduct, taking kids from their parents, encouraging anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, etc. I agree – IT MUST STOP!!
Ham is a particularly dim bulb. Everything in the world is confusing to him.
I know that PZ is a Minnesota resident, so I thought this might be of interest to him. https://www.twincities.com/2019/04/29/lake-calhoun-returns-after-appeals-court-says-state-overstepped-with-bde-maka-ska/
If you live in Minnesota, please contact your representatives and tell them to either support empowering the DNR to change the name of lakes or to change this lake in particular.
Ah yes, “The West.” Ken loves to blame evolution for “racism” but he’s more than happy to use white supremacist dog whistles.
larpar @ 1
Silly atheists, god’s moral laws are perfect and absolute… even when he changes his mind.
Where do they get this moral relativism mantra from anyway? I don’t think anyone here is a moral relativist.
DanDare @10
“Moral relativism” is a bugbear of the religious because they fear that without carved-in stone-morality and a cosmic hanging judge willing to deal our punishment to “evil-doers,” humanity will devolve in murder, rape, and pillage. We atheists/secularists/leftists MUST be relativists because we realize that morality is far more nuanced than their black-and-White ethos, that what they consider “evil” (i.e. anything regarding our genitalia) isn’t, and that despite our best efforts some bad guys will get away without punishment. They can’t deal with that reality.
DanDare at #10 — “moral relativism” has as much literal meaning as “cultural marxism”. Intrinsically, they both simply stand for “stuff I don’t like”.
Moral relativism is when checks notes we say that rich white Christian men should face the same punishment for their crimes as everyone else, apparently.
Aunty Em! Aunty Em!! It’s an AGM conspiracy theory caused twister!!!! This doesn’t look at all like America Toto…
Let God™ sort them out.
As soon as possible.
Psalm 137 gleefully advocates mass infanticide as revenge for Babylon’s mistreatment of Jerusalem:
Isaiah 13 agrees.
But wait! In Lamentations, which deals with the grief of Jerusalem’s destruction by Babylon, who is behind it all? Well, God. Because Jerusalem wasn’t good enough.
So God punishes Jerusalem by bringing the army of Babylon to destroy the city, including the murder of its infants, and Jerusalem’s response is that they should destroy Babylon back, including the murder of its infants. All of this is God’s will…and yet infanticide is somehow the fault of not being biblical enough? And I haven’t even touched upon the story of Isaac.
Everyone is a moral relativist, it’s just that not everyone acknowledges it.
What’s wrong with polygamy and infanticide ? Aren’t those things in the Bible ?
Thanks to a right-winger in my office, I have become quite well acquainted with the moral relativism of the extreme religious right: a poor person steals to get food? prison for life! while a rich man bilking investors out of millions of dollars, shredding labour laws, and lying on their taxes is just normal business and he should not be investigated (unless he is liberal, not Christian or not white).
Hm, I get confused by moral absolutism – like “genocide is absolutely wrong, because YHWH says so, and YHWH is absolutely good by definition the same YHWH who has ordered genocide a couple of times according to the Holy Book he inspired”.
@19
it ain’t just the religious right but the right in general, from my observation.
see any republican press conference
uncle frogy
I think some of you are missing the point. If there wasn’t some very up-front hypocrisy going on, I think some of his intended audience might not know it was a religious message. He’d probably dislike being confused for a secular organization. That’s the Discovery Institute’s territory and I think they’re competitors.
The old “moral relativism” canard. Here in Ireland it goes something like:
Apologists for Catholic Church: The laws of God are absolute and for all time! Anything else is moral relativism!
Secular campaigners: (point to evidence of widespread child abuse in industrial schools and Magdalene laundries, baby-farming in mother & baby homes, etc.)
Apologists for Catholic Church: Ah, yes, well, you see, those were different times…
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