Aug 25, 2017 | American Athiests, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America |
by William Trollinger Saturday at the American Atheists Convention in North Charleston involved twelve back-to-back presentations in the (ice-cold) Marriott ballroom. Besides those mentioned in our last post, there were also presentations on: “The Threat of a...
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 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...
Jul 3, 2017 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Cedarville University, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Science, Secularism, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger According to Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis (AiG), the nation is in the midst of a terrible spiritual struggle, as true Bible-believing Christians valiantly fight the forces of secularism and atheism in a desperate attempt to save the soul of...
Jun 16, 2017 | Biblical Interpretation, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Maria Stein, Pete Cajka, Politics, Righting America |
by Peter Cajka In his conclusion to this week’s series, Dr. Pete Cajka compares the political implications of each site’s displays, focusing on the ways both sites critique secularization of local, national, and transnational cultures. V: Politics:...
