Dec 23, 2025 | Albert Mohler, Annihilationism, Ark Encounter, Baptist News Global, Creation Museum, Hell, Judgment, Ken Ham, Kirk Cameron, MAGA Evangelicals, Owen Strachan, Proof-Texting, Revelation, Rick Pidcock, Sin, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Tom Ascol, White Christian Nationalism |
By William Trollinger Image via https://creation-thewrittentruth.blogspot.com. The Baptist News Global headline says it all: “Heads spin as Kirk Cameron gives up eternal conscious torment.” As Rick Pidcock observes, Cameron has for many years “been one of the poster...
Apr 25, 2025 | Apocalypticism, Chaos, David Barton, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Evangelical Rhetoric, Executive Orders, Federal Workers, Judgment, Lance Wallnau, MAGA, Paul Dans, Political Rhetoric, Project 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Jeffress, Robert L. Ivie, Rodney Kennedy, Tariffs, Vaccination |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which...
Feb 25, 2025 | Abortion, Capitalism, Culture War, Cursing, Franklin Graham, God's Wrath, Hell, Hurricane Katrina, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Living Waters, Los Angeles Fires, Man-made Climate Change, Pat Robertson, Racial Justice, Ray Comfort, September 11th, Wokeness |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ray Comfort’s Living Waters Ministry video, “Hollywood Mocks God, Then This Happens”. Image via YouTube. It is striking – but not surprising – how often fundamentalist leaders and preachers proclaim that this or...
Jul 9, 2024 | A Gentler God, Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Culture War, Doug Frank, Evangelicals, Faith Statement, Hell, Judgment, Ken Ham, Martin Iles, Meghan Henning, Sin, Tim Challies |
by William Trollinger Image of an unhoused person, via invisiblepeople.tv. And now, the final movement in my “Summer of 2024 Hell Quartet.” (For the first three movements, see: here, here, and here.) Ken Ham, Martyn Iles, and their compatriots at Answers in Genesis...
Jan 11, 2023 | Abeka Books, Abeka Publishing, American History, American Pope, Answers in Genesis, Anthony Moore, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Bill Hybels, Catholic Fundamentalism, Cedarville University, Christian History, Creation Science, Dan Phelps, Environmental Science, Evangelical History, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Fundamentalist Textbooks, Gender Roles, Hijacking History, History and Politics, John MacArthur, Judgment, Kathleen Wellman, Kentucky Paleontological Society, Natural History, Paleontology Society, Patriarchy, QAnon, Religion and Politics, Righting America, Scott Hahn, Sean Martin, Sexual Abuse, Slavery, The Coming Storm, The Village Church, Thomas White, Trey Smith, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown, Willow Creek Community Church, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). It was another good year for rightingamerica, both in the variety of authors’ voices and topics, and in the number and variety of visitors/viewers. Regarding the latter,...
Oct 31, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Abortion, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Critical Race Theory, Culture War, Facebook, Fundamentalism, Hell, Intersectionality, Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Noah's Flood, Parler, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Social Justice, Social Media, Statement of Faith, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s Facebook page, with a quote from the Gospel of Matthew and linking to a Fox News story. Image via Facebook. One of the distinctive ways in which fundamentalists make use of the Bible is proof-texting, i.e., pulling...
