Church-Sponsored Expensive Bulls**t

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 called Ark Encounter that exceeds $100 million, and makes a showcase out of deceiving children and their credulous parents. This is a disgrace - to evidence, to logic, to facts, to reason, and to truth - an absolute disgrace.

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.