Hedgehogs on the Beach
This post is a slightly elaborated version of a post I put up at my blog last night. I originally didn’t think it was good enough to post here, but a comment by Smut Clyde improves my post immeasurably:
From the annals at Right Wing Watch, here’s a story of creationist grifters Kevin Swan and “Creation Museum” creator Ken Ham claiming that they are “effectively very, very close to Omaha Beach in the war of the worldviews?”
I think Swanson and Ham are being surprisingly accurate in their characterization of their role in the culture wars. Swanson and Ham are the human equivalents of the “Czech hedgehogs” that littered the beaches of France- they are vicious, dense, and serve only as an impediment to progress.
As an added bonus, here’s Ham’s talk of the specter of the loss of the “war of the worldviews”:
It is, it’s an extremely important battle. Because, you know what, it only takes one generation to lose a culture. That’s all it takes. And if you can capture one generation, you’ll have the culture. And just as, you know, when the Israelites crossed the Jordan river and there were 12 stones to remind the next generation of what God did and what did we find? They weren’t reminded, the next generation, they lost it in one generation, we’re losing this culture before our very eyes today because the church opened the door to allow the philosophy of naturalism, and evolution, millions of years, to permeate into God’s word. We need to shut that door. If we don’t shut that door, that’s where the battle’s at right now, if we don’t shut that door, we’re going to lose this culture, America will be the England and Europe of tomorrow.
GASP, we’ll be the England and Europe of tomorrow? Will that mean that we’ll have super high-tech jet fighters trains from the future? Well, clear those goddamn hedgehogs off the beach already!
Postscript: The danger of posting a link to a Nena video (even Nena singing in English, which is second-rate Nena) is that I will now spend the rest of the night watching Nena videos.
Addendum: Smut Clyde pointed out an unintentional bit of autogodwinning on the part of Ham and Swan:
I would have chosen the Battle of Britain, myself, if I were looking for an example of an underdog in a climactic clash of civilisations to obtain the sympathy of my audience. But if Ham and Swanson prefer to identify with the Nazis, I’m not gonna stop them.
Smut nails it- Swan and Ham are talking about defending “their” culture from the onslaught of modernity, in essence comparing themselves to the German soldiers who were trying to stave off the Normandy invasion. And to think, all this time, I thought creationists had problems with Poe’s law, not Godwin’s.
Posted by Big Bad Bald Bastard on 01/27/13 at 10:29 PM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • To Poe Or Not To Poe? •
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