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The man has called Christianity scientific as a compliment and atheism a religion as an insult. I recently visited his ark encounter and creation museum(not by choice) and oh do I have things to say. He believes that humans lived with dinosaurs and that during the garden of Eden days everything was a herbivore. He even had a video of a Tyrannosaurus rex eating what appeared to be a giant watermelon. A trex was designed to eat meat just look at its teeth. In the creation museum they had a fucking penguin next to a toucan in the garden of eden display. The only argument they have against evolution is that you can’t mix 2 completely different species. That’s not what evolution is. According to them all bears come from a common ancestor though they don’t use that term. They describe all bear species as being the same thing since they can interbreed. Then on that same sign they said because some zoos keep polar bears in conditions that are too hot that they can survive in heat like other bears. They have a 4 inch thick layer of blubber.

Then they had a whole pro life exhibit with videos of an “abortion survivor” as if it’s some kind of heinous act. The whole thing was meant to scare people into not getting/not supporting an abortion. Then they had the audacity to talk about people who have had abortions as if they where wrong and needed to seek forgiveness.

They said the spiral shape of our galaxy means it couldn’t be older than 6k years. They also said that everyone deserves to die because we are all sinners. They had fucking pictures of things like the burning twin towers and starving Jews in the holocaust up as examples. They just use scientific terms in the wrong way to confuse the gullible. The amount of mental hoops Ken Ham and his supporters have to go through to convince themselves that this shit is true is astonishing.

Not only that but Ken Ham promised high returns to Williamstown. He claimed they’d get 1m visitors in 1 year but only got 800k in 2 years. He got 62m from them as well as money from the state of Kentucky. Yet he wants to get out of paying taxes because AIG is non profit. It’s not even on the side of the interstate with the businesses. Even Christian paleontologists don’t agree with him. It’s just plain lies that he’s convinced himself are true. Keep in mind he has a bachelors in biology. I guess he fell asleep in class.

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GoldTake My Energy

To be precise, in Switzerland pretty much anybody of sound mind can get an apointment at a clinic to receive medicly assisted death for pretty much any reason.

Here an example, 2 US sisters, wealthy medical professionals died together quite young for being "tired of life". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10659917/Sisters-died-Swiss-suicide-clinic-said-werent-100-collapsed-discs.html

Religion condems the act of ending one's life, for life belongs to god. You do not own your life, god does, it is not your decision to make when and how you die.

What do atheists say about the topic, generally speaking? Do we own our life? Our does society owns it? Do we have any obligations to anything beyond ourselves that make us stick around?

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I just saw an /u/AmericasNavy advertisement on Reddit. The image was a chaplain baptizing a sailor to prepare them for combat. The message couldn't be clearer, and it's a scary one. The US military has long been internally evangelical, but this kind of Crusader-like imagery in recruiting seems like a real problem.

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I thought this might be interesting to remember in case you get into an argument with a religious person about how homosexuality doesn’t follow the “natural” design.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFxn7hUW/

The study he refers to:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02585-6

Edit: yes i know the majority of things we do and get in our modern world aren’t natural. My intention of posting this was giving my fellow lgbtq+ atheists/non-theists an argument in case they involve in a conversation/debate with a religious (specifically christian) person. This might help a lot in case you’re lgbtq+ and have conservative parents.

Edit 2: For a lot of their arguments, christians often use the word “natural”. Nonetheless this concept can be discussed both etymologically and philosophically. That’s not the point. The discussion works better with the concept “normal”, in the sense of what goes with the moral norm and what doesn’t.

Taking in consideration this, the objective of the argument is not primarily focused on supporting the discussion by the example of mammals homosexual behavior (although this applies too and is very valid), but specifically the fact that sexual orientation is determined by a pool of genes one carries in their genome. Therefore, since it’s not a matter of choice and it’s something you’re born with (according to science), christians can not use the line of logic based on the fact homosexuality is a sin, because for the concept they have for sin, it’s an affair of choice given your freewill, which in this case it does not apply for the reason explained before.

As a result, since homosexuality is not a sin (by the definition they have for it), it’s not amoral or anormal, and there should be no basis for christians to consider homosexuality as something that is not natural, and therefore they shall have no for reason for being homophobic.

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