When creationists come a’calling, they from time to time bring up Dr. Dino, Kent Hovind. And we go through a ritual of exposing and re-exposing his lies and all.
Well, now he has attracted the attention of the Southern Poverty Law Center for his anti-Semitic and anti-democratic behavior as well.
As noted in this Skeptic News item, he even sells The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and has said that Democracy “is evil and contrary to God’s law.”
This is the same man who tries to abuse that same democracy by trying to get creationist office-holders to put forth anti-evolution laws, mind you.
The Skeptic News item has links to both the SPL news item and a site that analyzes Hovind’s claims. So keep it handy for when the Hovind fans come wandering by again.
Anyone who distributes *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion * must be an anti-Semite.
I would quibble with the above quote. Trying to get creationists in office to put forth anti-evolution laws is a proper use of democracy, but it’s being used to further a socially harmful goal. By contrast, IMHO Roe v. Wade was an abuse of democracy, which achieved a socially beneficial result.
S’okay, because representative democracy is contrary to God’s law, too. Every government described in the Bible – including the Kingdom of Heaven – is a monarchy.
I am not defending Hovind, but the blurb did not say he distributed “The Protocols”. He distributed something called “The fourth Reich of the Rich” (or something like that) and agreed with some of what was in the protocols.
Well, doesn’t Amazon.com distribute the Protocols? After all, it can be used for scholarly purposes-like a report on say, Anti-semitism, or frauds, hoaxes, that mindset, etc etc?
According to the SPCL item, he “recommended” the Protocols.
I don’t know what’s up with that link; if you open a new browser window, paste the following into it, and hit enter, you should get to the article in question:
Or you can just go to Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, click on the “Intelligence Project” hyperlink, then on the “Intelligence Report” hyperlink, then on the “Intelligence Briefs” hyperlink.
[quote] Creationists and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Young-earth creationist activity has severely diminished in the Puget Sound area over the past two years. So it came as a surprise that Kent Hovind from Florida paid the region a visit. Folks who are familiar with his stage act know that Hovind is considered the Bob Larson of creationism. A few PNWS members certainly raised their eyebrows when they noticed his Florida address zip code was surrounded by brackets (a favorite, but useless tactic employed by militia sympathizers to declare their “sovereignty” from the Federal government). But upon attending his lecture even they were shocked to see him endorse the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s unusual to see such overt anti-semitic tactics employed by a well known creationist, especially since Hovind speciously links Nazism with evolutionary biology. But then again, it’s uncommon for other creationists to quote Hovind. We can see why.
First, let me apologize to everybody for the bad link. I thought I’d fixed the little bugger. Let’s try again: try this link and scroll down to the second item.
Also:
KeithB said:
Yup, I was misremembering the bit about him selling the Protocols. But actually, it says he “has recommended” the book. A bit different from simply agreeing with it (and even if it was just agreeing – yeesh!).
Libertarian said:
Gee, thanks. But I didn’t say it was “inherently good” – I noted that Hovind said it was “evil and contrary to God’s law.” Yet he uses these evil democratic systems (and yes, thanks, I know we are not a pure democracy) to try to push his agenda – as Adam and Sofa King (in discussing the Arkansas law, which is exactly what I was thinking of when I typed what I did earlier) both understood.
