From the Orlando Sentinel:
PENSACOLA — Jurors convicted a Pensacola evangelist who founded Pensacola’s defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land theme park on 58 counts of tax fraud.
Kent Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism, was accused of failing to pay $845,000 in employee taxes at the dinosaur theme park, an amusement park that exposed visitors to the view of Hovind and his followers that humans and dinosaurs coexisted and that evolution did not occur. […]
Kent Hovind said he and his employees were workers of God and therefore exempt from paying taxes. He paid his employees in cash and did not withhold their taxes or pay his share as an employer.
November isn’t shaping up as a very good month for Wingnut Fundamentalists, is it? First the Ted Haggard “Gay Sex Fueled by Meth” scandal and now this one. I guess God told Hovind not to pay those employee taxes, just like God told Ted Haggard that blowing off a little steam with a gay prostitute is the perfect antidote for stress if you’re been anointed by God to preach the Good News.
I sure do wish I had as close a personal relationship with God as them old boys do. I bet I could have had a lot more fun in my life if I had, and I sure would have kept lot more of my money.
I guess my relationship isn’t as good as I thought it was…all I get to do is what I can for the least of my brothers and sisters…(need to add a few cans of Progresso soup for the food closet this week to the shopping list…)
You see Cali, that’s the difference between your antiquated liberal style of religion, and the new improved conservative brand. Old style liberal God makes you do all sorts of stuff for other people. New style conservative God says “To hell with that. Get while the getting’s good!”
as seen on Jesus’ General
For a chuckle or two, I heard a friend call the soup brand “Progressive.” Guess she has something there. A local cable anchor couldn’t cope with all the syllables while reporting on Pastor Haggard. He is now an “Evangical,” which might just catch on among the talking heads.
Well, I can’t really say I have one, even though I go to church and consider myself a Christian (among several other things, actually). And I can’t say I’ve kept a lot of my money. But I still have plenty of fun, I have my self-respect, and on those nights when I can’t sleep, it isn’t because I’m wondering how I can live with myself.
have no fear. The new museum(ha!) in St Louis will take care of all those cavorting dinos. And remember- the grand canyon and the other Aging” sites are really much younger than was thought.
What a country! Ya gotta luv it.
Oh, by the way, don’t forget to pick up your printed material that clearly explains the “new” thinking. They are avvailable at pretty much all of the National Park sites.
billjpa
Re:The grand canyon and other aging sites. On the seventh day, he makeith it look very, very old!
Matthew 22:21 in response to whether it is lawful for Jews to pay taxes to Ceasar:
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.
So much for an “intelligently designed” business model.