{"id":18905,"date":"2013-11-06T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18905"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:53:56","slug":"ken-ham-continues-winning-souls-for-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/ken-ham-continues-winning-souls-for-atheism.html","title":{"rendered":"Ken Ham Continues Winning Souls for Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Jeri Lofland shared her testimony about the impact of Ken Ham on her life, and how it led to her current atheism, <a href=\"http:\/\/heresyintheheartland.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/ken-ham-evolution-of-bully.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on the blog Heresy in the Heartland, in a post with the title \u201cKen Ham: The Evolution of a Bully.\u201d<\/a> It was since picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/23\/ken-ham-the-evolution-of-a-bully-jeri-loflands-thoughts\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the blog Homeschoolers Anonymous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/2-3-of-youth-ken-ham.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18986\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/2-3-of-youth-ken-ham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The above image seemed to provide an even more relevant accompaniment to this post than the one I originally used. I found it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/71801-bible-defenders\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Goodreads<\/a>, shared by people who probably don\u2019t connect the text and image of Ken Ham in the way I do.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeri Lofland shared her testimony about the impact of Ken Ham on her life, and how it led to her current atheism, on the blog Heresy in the Heartland, in a post with the title \u201cKen Ham: The Evolution of a Bully.\u201d It was since picked up by the blog Homeschoolers Anonymous. 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