Creationism evangelist: God put contradictions in the Bible to ‘weed out’ the atheists

[Bryce Butler]

Young Earth creationism evangelist Kent Hovind asserted this week that God had purposefully put contradictions in the Bible to “weed out” non-believers.

In a YouTube video posted on Monday, the Christian fundamentalist responds to a follower who is troubled by a contradiction in the book of Acts.

“If I was God,” Hovind explains, “I would write the book in such a way that those who don’t want to believe in me anyway would think they found something. ‘Aha, here’s why I don’t believe.'”

“And then they could go on with their own life because they don’t want to believe God anyways,” he continues. “I would put things in there that would appear without digging to be contradictions. I don’t think that’s deceptive, I think that’s wise for the Heavenly Father to weed out those who are really serious.”

Hovind says that he made a choice to “believe the Bible until it’s proven wrong.”

“I know others who have decided, ‘I’m not going to believe it until you prove everything is right,'” he notes. “Okay, you do whatever you want to do, but I made the opposite decision.”

Watch the video below from Kent Hovind, recorded Dec. 28, 2015.

Source

Any bets for how soon he'll be back in prison?

[Warpy]

1. Oh, how I long for the days

of men in white coats with butterfly nets chasing these lunatics down and putting them in hug-me jackets until the drugs kicked in.

[Brainstormy]

2. I knew it! I knew it!

It's like the fossils.

or maybe not.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. Then god is a liar,

and I have no respect for liars.

[JRLeft]

12. Exactly God lied to create atheists so he could send us to hell. Theist logic.

SMFH

[Freelancer]

4. I've found the minds of fundamentalists to be like inflatable air mattresses

Usually, they're really good at some things -- finance, woodworking, even math sometimes. But it seems like those sections of their mind have benefited -- are fully 'inflated', so to speak, as a result of the underdevelopment of another part of their mentality. It's as though a heavy weight is sitting on the corner of their 'mental air mattress' that is capable of seeing how irrational most religious tenets are, and that the other corners are fully inflated because of that.

Maybe taking that weight away -- "rolling away the stone" (snicker) -- would actually be detrimental to their well being. That could be why they fight so hard whenever someone tries. Without the weight of religion, their other functioning 'inflated' portions might go flaccid.



Wow. Metaphorical thought is taxing.

[RussBLib]

5. grasping at straws

the sounds of a sinking ship

[DetlefK]

6. If God stuffed the Bible with intentional lies, how do we know what parts are true?

That part of the Bible you just quoted: Did God really mean that or is it a meaningless literary trap for atheists?

[DavidDvorkin]

9. That's what preachers are for

To explain it all to us.

[edhopper]

7. If you were God

then God would be a dumb-ass ignoramus.

[Lordquinton]

8. He filed his taxes the same way

Turns out not a good philosophy.

[SusanCalvin]

10. Well, it just goes to show

That "faith" can "explain" anything....

[AlbertCat]

11. until it’s proven wrong.

Which it has been repeatedly....