Atheists Try to Sink Another Noah's Ark
 

It's gotten to the point where anyone wanting to bring heathens to Jesus by building a replica of Noah's Ark will be torpedoed by atheists.

First it happened with Ken Ham's Ark in Kentucky. Ken simply wanted to change the corporate structure from a for-profit business that paid corporate taxes to a non-profit like a church that paid no taxes.

Atheists had a cow over that. Just because local governments had borrowed money and given in to Ken because be promised to pay it back with taxes is no reason he had to stick with that agreement. No one held a gun to the heads of local elected officials. They need to accept the consequences of their decisions. Fortunately, Ken won in court and is not paying the taxes.

Now, something similar is happening in Europe. Someone built a nice replica of Noah's Ark. They sailed it around and people came to Jesus by buying tickets to tour it. There are actual animals on board. There was a problem navigating the Ark, it hit a few moored boats. Who cares? Here come the atheists. They persuaded government to declare the Ark unsafe to move. It needs to be sailed back to its home port for repairs.

This is a warning about how Satan will use dim-witted atheists to stop spreading God's story about victory over sinners.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...safety-hazard/

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I'm sure that Mr Ham would not have made a promise before God about repaying through taxes, and only those most solemn promises are worth the paper they are written on:

Ec:5:2: Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ec:5:3: For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
Ec:5:4: When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

I am trying to remember the name of the theologian who said, "When the facts change I change my mind." and this seems to be all that Mr Ham has done.

Anyway, it is rather typical of local governments that they should assume more power that the President - Jesus did not say "Give unto the local authority that which is the local authorities." These people are simply getting above themselves.


As far as the Europeans are concerned the whole place is rotten and filled with corruption. If that Ark hit anything, then its an "Act of God" - no damages are payable.

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The whole idea behind tax exempt status is that churches are then supposed to use that money in order to serve the public good. In effect, fluffy bunny churches running soup kitchens, clothing donation bins, toys for tots, and other charity drives are being subsidized by the American taxpayer so the government doesnt have to do those things, which would be Godless socialism. As long as they don't explicitly endorse political candidates, churches can speak out on political issues all they want, like infanticide, tree hugging, and sodomy.

Building a Noah's Ark most certainly serves the public good? Who else is going to educate the public about Young Earth Creationism? If the Marxist-Democrats won't allow us to directly use taxpayer money to teach Intelligent Design and Biblical Literalism to the youth, this seems like the best alternative. For now.

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We all know that when it comes to taxes, Jesus said "render unto Caesar", but Jesus also chased the money changers from the Temple. I think in this we are dealing with the latter.

Visitors to the ark are also likely to avail themselves of local restaurants, stay in local hotels, fill up their cars from local gas stations, and otherwise take advantage of other local business establishments while visiting the ard - and the tax revenue from those businesses will go to local government taxing bodies.

By any credible economic analysis, those complaining Maoist government officials would have to conclude that "Caesar" got his money back - and more than once. Even at the Federal level, some of that money found its way to Fauci to fund his gain-of-function virus research in Wuhan.

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They just can't help themselves, can they? The idea that the Ark was unseaworthy because it crashed into other boats is hilarious! THERE WEREN'T ANY OTHER BOATS!! Next they insinuate that it was vulnerable to fire and overloading. It would have sunk, especially with so much swirling of water and bumping into mountains and stuff. Honestly, I haven't laughed so much in years! IF IT HAD SUNK WE WOULDN'T BE HERE!!

There'd be no hares, tortoises, frogs, bison, wolves, birds, elephants, cattle, sheep, horses, giraffes, mice, bears, ants, rhinoceroses; no poultry, beef, lamb, pork, burgers, hot dogs, venison, turkey sausages, meat loaves, bacon, salami, haggis; we'd all starve!!!

They really don't think these things through.