Ken Ham, creator of the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter theme park, will be taking part in a conference that likens modern "ungodliness" to the Great Flood.
The Noah Conference will take place on August 19-20 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Registration includes admission into the Ark Encounter theme park nearby. The Noah Conference website describes the event as an opportunity to disciple children in the midst of an "enticing me-centered, entertainment-saturated, and peer-dominated culture".
"You, like Noah, are competing against a thousand corrupt voices," the website tells visitors. "Like Noah’s sons, your children must also follow you into an ark to be saved – the ark that is Jesus Christ."
"You and your family might feel like you’re swimming upstream. But have you ever tried swimming against a flood?The all-white, all-male list of conference speakers includes Ken Ham, the Benham Brothers, anti-abortion activist Flip Benham, and the ever-colorful Kevin Swanson. (Let's hope that Swanson refrains from screaming, gesticulating, and making references to manure and pus-filled sores this time.) The workshop schedule features the typical right-wing fare about how the Christian family is supposedly under attack from a wicked world, and how families must batten down the hatches under male headship.
4,000 years ago, the earth was covered by the greatest flood of all time. Every man, woman and child was swept away...except for one man and his family. But that wasn’t all. Another flood was raging which posed even greater danger to Noah and his family - a worldwide flood of ungodliness.
What did Noah do?
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.” (Heb 11:7)
What can you do?
Join families from across the country for the Noah Conference in Cincinnati on August 19 & 20 - just minutes away from the new life-size Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. Based on lessons from the life of Noah, the Noah Conference will prepare you to engage your kids, disciple them in an ungodly generation, and launch them into life as ambassadors of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
- Lot vs. Noah: Combating the Influence of the World on Your Home
- Children, Obey Your Parents
- Why Every Family Needs an Ark
- Discipleship 101: Bringing Your Children into the Ark
- It’s Time to Build an Ark in the Secular Age
- Living Among Lions: How to Thrive like Daniel in Today's Babylon
- Getting Your Kids on Board: How Dad Passes a Vision to His Children
The Noah Conference brims with Christian myths, and not just the Great Flood myth. Fundamentalist Christians are not living in an era of incomparable evil. Some monolithic, wicked "world" is not out to taint their families and persecute them for their faith. Adopting a siege mentality and shunning the outside world will not keep them safe or sanctified. Heaven's floodgates have not opened, and there is no need for a metaphorical ark.
Let's hope that Swanson refrains from screaming, gesticulating, and making references to manure and pus-filled sores this time.
ReplyDeleteIt would also be nice if he refrained from calling for everyone whose way of life he disapproves of to be killed, but considering that that's what God himself did according to the Noah story, I suppose it's too much to hope for.
Infidel -- Amen to that. I doubt he'll refrain from his usual hateful rhetoric, though.
DeleteI think it is wonderful that we live in a country where free speech is tolerated so that even the criminally insane can have a conference.
ReplyDeleteJono -- It makes America entertaining for the rest of us.
DeleteLooks like a bumper crop of ick.
ReplyDeleteNorthierthanthou -- Ick is right! Swanson alone brings ample quantities of ick to the conference.
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