(August 12, 2017 at 5:32 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: He's the worst type of deluded fucktard preacher crook. And his "doctoral dissertation" is so idiotic it will make your brains leak out of your ears. Among other things, such as varied mail and title fraud schemes, he's a member of the Sovereign Citizen Movement - he denies that any government has any authority over him, because he answers to only one: his god.
Kent Hovind has been charged with many, many crimes, including: assault, battery, and burglary, failure to observe zoning regulations, constructing a building without a permit, refusing to sign a citation, and violating the county building code. Also for running a business (Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land) without a license, without tax-exempt status, and refusing to pay taxes. His stance was that as a minister of god, he was not a citizen of the United States, and that everything he had belonged to god.
In 1998 he bragged that he hadn't paid taxes in 30 years. In 2002 he actually tried to sue the IRS for harassment!
According to the IRS, Hovind earned $50,000 a year through speaking engagements alone, and CSE sold more than $1.8 million in merchandise. He received unreported personal donations. He refused to pay any taxes.
In 2006 he was indicted on 58 counts of tax fraud and evasion. He was sent to jail for 10 years and his wife for one.
In 2015 he was indicted for mail fraud and criminal contempt.
He should be a poster-boy for atheism and why fundie religion rots people's brains and turns people into criminals, but he (and his son, Eric) still has a huge following.
Others feel your pain.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
