{"id":39798,"date":"2017-02-20T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39798"},"modified":"2017-02-18T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T20:29:23","slug":"ken-hams-bible-fanfic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/02\/ken-hams-bible-fanfic.html","title":{"rendered":"Ken Ham&#8217;s Bible Fanfic"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39803\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/02\/Ham%E2%80%99s-brand-of-Christianity-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Ham\u2019s brand of Christianity\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ham\u2019s brand of Christianity is more like Bible fan fiction than the Christian faith most members of mainstream churches would recognize. It is important not to let Ham defined what it means to be a \u201creal\u201d Christian, since his version is a modern confabulation of Victorian fundamentalism and bonkers pseudo-historical speculation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/sure-its-funny-that-ken-ham-is-planning-a-nephilim-vs-dinosaurs-exhibit-but-did-you-read-the-revealing-tweet-storm-that-followed\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colavito\u2019s blog<\/a> to learn more about the Nephilim vs. dinosaurs gladiator exhibit, and the Tweets related to it, that inspired the above quote.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ham\u2019s brand of Christianity is more like Bible fan fiction than the Christian faith most members of mainstream churches would recognize. It is important not to let Ham defined what it means to be a \u201creal\u201d Christian, since his version is a modern confabulation of Victorian fundamentalism and bonkers pseudo-historical speculation. Visit Colavito\u2019s blog to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":39803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[2697,14592,3357,3406,3485,3970,14595,6131,14594,9854],"class_list":["post-39798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-dinosaurs","tag-fan","tag-fandom","tag-fiction","tag-flood","tag-gladiators","tag-jason-colavito","tag-ken-ham","tag-nephilim","tag-quote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ken Ham&#039;s Bible Fanfic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ham\u2019s brand of Christianity is more like Bible fan fiction than the Christian faith most members of mainstream churches would recognize. 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