Whenever you hear people tell you that you're making too much of a fuss about young earth creationism, and that you're wasting too much of your time arguing against it and trying to expose the nonsense of its adherents, you might like to know this little bit of news I found out (by accident).
Answers
in Genesis labels itself a “Christianity-defending
ministry” with a $20
million budget - and its primary focus is on exposing “the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas.” Yes, that's right - a
ministry set up entirely to argue against standard scientific facts has a
budget of $20 million with which to propagate its falsehoods.
Its Creation Museum
in Kentucky , which depicts humans living
alongside dinosaurs, employs over 300 people - and in order to market their fundamentalism as
successfully as possible, Answers in Genesis apparently pays some of its key front men as
much as $900,000 a year (as of 2013).
And if
all that didn't depress you enough, today I read about the life-size Noah's Ark Theme
Park
When you
think of the numerous ways that Christians can use the church's (God's) money
for social good - let's say, buying Bibles to give to countries that are short supply
of them, helping feed and clothe homeless people, investing in the charity
sector either at home or aboard, to name but three - this AIG-sponsored vanity
project of bulls**t is a very ghastly use of funds.
It is
for reasons like this that we never ought to be complacent in just letting
these inward looking ill-informed blockheads get away with such shameful and
financially wasteful distortions of facts and truths.
