Ken Ham cries persecution over SNL skit

[Silver]

Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update segment featured the songwriting duo of Garth & Kat, who never seem to prepare their songs ahead of time. (You love ‘em or you don’t.)

At one point, when anchor Michael Che told them they needed to leave the studio, they pleaded their case by saying “We came all the way from the Creation Museum!” (“Yeah! Moses had a dinosaur. Did you know that?”)
There were a few laughs, but the joke fell pretty flat.
Wouldn’t you know it, though, Ken Ham saw this as Christian Persecution in action:

The reason I’m posting this video is to demonstrate that the mocking of anything Christian in the culture is growing. We see increasing attacks by the secularists on Christianity — they have become so bold now that they’ve been successful in removing crosses, Nativity scenes, and Ten Commandments displays, and have been imposing their own atheistic religion on the culture. Recently, they have been increasingly spreading lies in a propaganda campaign of misinformation about our future Ark Encounter project (and had been doing that in regard to the Creation Museum for many years).

Imagine what would happen if the cast of Saturday Night Live mocked Muslims? I wonder if they have ever mocked atheists in the same way they do Christians?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...ight-live/

[Tonus]

It's a good question re:muslims. But does he really think that there would be some terrible backlash if they mocked atheists?

[The Valkyrie]

Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update segment featured the songwriting duo of Garth & Kat, who never seem to prepare their songs ahead of time. (You love ‘em or you don’t.)

At one point, when anchor Michael Che told them they needed to leave the studio, they pleaded their case by saying “We came all the way from the Creation Museum!” (“Yeah! Moses had a dinosaur. Did you know that?”)
There were a few laughs, but the joke fell pretty flat.
Wouldn’t you know it, though, Ken Ham saw this as Christian Persecution in action:

The reason I’m posting this video is to demonstrate that the mocking of anything Christian in the culture is growing. We see increasing attacks by the secularists on Christianity — they have become so bold now that they’ve been successful in removing crosses, Nativity scenes, and Ten Commandments displays, and have been imposing their own atheistic religion on the culture. Recently, they have been increasingly spreading lies in a propaganda campaign of misinformation about our future Ark Encounter project (and had been doing that in regard to the Creation Museum for many years).

Imagine what would happen if the cast of Saturday Night Live mocked Muslims? I wonder if they have ever mocked atheists in the same way they do Christians?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...ight-live/

Coincidentally I was just reading that

[Dystopia]

The reason I’m posting this video is to demonstrate that the mocking of anything Christian in the culture is growing. We see increasing attacks by the secularists on Christianity — they have become so bold now that they’ve been successful in removing crosses, Nativity scenes, and Ten Commandments displays, and have been imposing their own atheistic religion on the culture.

Fighting to leave religious symbols out of public life is not persecution, it is following basic constitutional principles. Unlike Christians, atheists almost never impose disbelief on others - It's the other way around, no one is forcing churches to close and spreading lies about how moral Christians are.

Perhaps the reason why Christianity is so criticised is because it deserves it - Heck even my girlfriend is becoming an atheist

[Nope]

Religious people aren't special snowflakes. SNL has poked fun of many things but I doubt Ham gets angry at those things.


The Creation Museum is such an easy target that I doubt know why it isn't mocked more often.

[Jackalope]

Don't want your beliefs mocked? Keep them to yourself. Everything is fair game for satire, etc.

I'll add that ridiculous beliefs are tautologically ripe for ridicule.

[Elskidor]

If Ken Ham is mad then they did something right. Actually it's not very hard to make that guy cry.

[Esquilax]

Here's what I find hilarious: the joke that Ham is upset about is literally just mentioning the name of his museum, plus what is by all accounts a fairly accurate representation of its contents, since the creation museum really does claim that dinosaurs existed contiguously with man.

How is that an attack on his beliefs?

[Crossless2.0]

Ham wants so much to be persecuted, and I want so much to help him. And I mean old-school, The Passion of the Christ-style persecution. If that bitch wants to cry every time someone snorts and chuckles over his ridiculous beliefs, I'm prepared to give him something real to cry about. Fuck him and his Flintstones theology.

Yeah, I get grumpy in the afternoon.

[Cyberman]

How is that an attack on his beliefs?

Because it just is! Any attack on a theist's beliefs is a personal attack on Baby Jesus Himself, didn't you know that?!