Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
Aug 29, 2017 | American Athiests, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Christian Right works overtime to sell the story that America is in the midst of a life-or-death culture war, with Christians on one side and atheists and humanists and secularists on the other. According to this Christian Right binary, the...
Aug 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Persecution, Politics, Rebecca Barrett-Fox |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Today’s post is written by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, professor of sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she...
Aug 10, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Righting America |
by William Trollinger To say that Ken Ham devotes a great deal of energy and time to vilifying gay marriage and LGBTQ rights is an understatement. As we noted recently, over the past year Ham – who apparently has no comment on, say, immigrants, refugees, or white...
Jul 31, 2017 | AiG Finances, Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Jesus, Ken Ham, Righting America, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger It turns out that folks are watching. In our last post we noted that – despite Answers in Genesis (AiG) CEO Ken Ham’s public statement in which he fudged some facts and omitted many more – it seems as the most obvious explanation for Ark...
Jul 14, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Culture War |
by Susan Trollinger One of the new additions to Ark Encounter that we mentioned in a previous post is a “theater” that has been installed in one of the ends of the ark. It consists of two flat screens suspended from the ceiling on one end of the room and several rows...
