ACLU

If there were people who read my blog then many of them would likely know who Kent Hovind is. Kent Hovind's seminars were the first that I had seen about creation. They were also the first place that I'd heard of the ACLU, which he lovingly called the American Communist Lawyers Union. Eventually I began to distance myself from Kent Hovind's teachings as I realized that he used many fallatious arguments and some that were known to be wrong. I began going to more reputable places for my information on creation. Places with real, practicing scientists, with degrees from secular Universities and who hold positions at these Universities. I did so, not because I felt that made their arguments more valid to me, but because the people I talked to required it.
All this isn't to say that I have no appreciation for Hovind. If it weren't for him I may have never found Answers in Genesis or the Institute for Creation Reasearch or the Truth.Origins archive and perhaps would have given up my faith during my college years when the validity of it was attacked by everyone of my professors, from psychology to philosophy to Childeren's literature. But thanks to him I was led to information which has convinced me of the truth of my beliefs, and rather than give them up like I was nearly at the point of doing (and at the time I didn't really care that I was losing my faith) I instead began voraciously reading all the information I could get my hands on regarding creation and the scientific interpretations that uphold it. I realize some people believe that it's not science, but that's because they believe science must exclude God by definition, forgetting the fact that nearly every scientific field was pioneered by someone who, if not a biblical creationist, at least believed in God. Including the atheist beloved natural selection first postulated by Edward Blythe, a biblical creationist. Please note, the fact that these people believed in creation or God, does not mean that creation is true, or that God exists. But it does mean that the statement "real science excludes the supernatural" is false.

But I digress. The point of this post is the ACLU, which for those of my non-readers who don't know, actually stands for the American Civil Liberties Union. I haven't much to say about them actually, other than that everytime I hear about them doing something I become sick with anger. They seem like the most self-serving, greedy, underhanded, conniving group in existence today. But I also understand that all my information about them comes from hearing about what they are doing to Christians (and other religions for that matter) such as the war vets who have come together with lawyers working pro bono to fight the ACLU's attempt to have all religious markers removed from war cemetaries. Basically, everything I hear about them involves them trying to expand the separation of church and state ammendment to a level that only an idiot would believe was intended by those who put it in place.

What I want to know is, have they ever done something good? Have they ever done something that they shouldn't be ashamed of? I'm not American, so I'm not really affected by them as much, but all Christians are my brethren, so when people attack them, I tend to take it a bit personally. And I know that people of other religions feel the same way. I'm sure they must have done some good in their time. I'm sure that my understanding of them can't be correct because in my eyes they are an entity so evil that to find it's equal you would need to read a children's storybook. And I say a children's storybook because the evil characters are usually exaggerated in them.

I open to people arguing against my understanding of these people. I would like to believe otherwise than I do because sometimes I think about groups like this and become afraid for the future. Suppose they remove all religious symbolism from the public view. Suppose they make an America where the only way to know religion ever existed was to stumble upon a cell group that meets in someones basement to proclaim the gospel, or preach on some other faith. Suppose the ACLU actually succeeds in "cleansing" America of religion and the religious. What then? They get together and have a meeting and say, "Well done. Let's go home."? I doubt it very much. Their censorship campaign has been a very lucrative one. They'll just change their focus. Because no matter what you believe, there are always going to be people who believe you're wrong and that you shouldn't be allowed to believe it. And if those people have the money to pay people like the ACLU, then it will only be a matter of time before you won't be allowed.

It's not a conspiracy. I'm not suggesting that there are any secret plans. I just think that if the world continues in the direction it's going the outcome might be very different than the one people desire, if people even think about outcomes these days.

These are just ideas. Don't argue with me as though you can't change my mind.