Creationist Ken Ham is really upset at atheists who are going to “extreme lengths” to… um… read the Bible.

It turns out we’re reading it too critically for his tastes:

A recent article from the Religion News Service reports, “Atheists use a popular Bible app to evangelize about unbelief.” The article contains interviews with a number of young atheists who have chosen to use YouVersion, one of the most popular apps around, as a way of trying to shake the faith of Christians. … Sadly, atheists like Lauren haven’t approached Scripture with the desire to have these problems resolved by believers who are equipped to answer such claims. No, instead they have come with a bias against God and His Word, and they desire to damage the faith that others have in God. These skeptics are intentionally searching for supposed problems in Scripture — so they can spread more disbelief.

Serious question: Isn’t that what everyone should be doing? If there are problems with Scripture, shouldn’t Christians be at the front of the line to point them out and try to rectify them?

Then he quotes me without mentioning my name:

… are these atheists interested in the answers to their objections? I would submit that many of them aren’t. One well-known atheist was quoted as saying that one of the “beautiful side effects” of free Bible apps is that “nothing makes you an atheist faster than reading the Bible.” But really, Romans chapter 1 teaches that they know there is a God, and that their disbelief is a willful suppression of the truth.

You guys, Ham is onto us. He knows we all secretly believe in God and we’re just suppressing the truth… (I don’t know how he found out. Who told him?!)

But how much critical analysis can you really expect from someone who thinks, “The Bible said it, so I believe it!” The Creation Museum, after all, is just an homage to reading the Bible without putting an ounce of thought into it.



