Hovind busted, finally

When I come across people in the style of Hovind I always suspect that behind their successes and failures is a character disorder. Whether narcissistic personality disorder or the more severe antisocial character disorder, they just don't feel responsible and always assume that they are entitled always to preferential treatment.US laws give considerable financial and legal protections to religions that exploiters use to shelter themselves. If you've the talent for it, selling religion is both safer and more profitable than selling used cars, dealing drugs, etc. Your target market is going to be resistance to debunking which gives you considerable leaway in your claims and behaviour.I'm beginning to think that more important than science instruction in schools is instruction in how to identify and deal with character disorders. These individuals are running wild in contemporary society, exploiting people right and left and unless they really mess up getting away with it.lfen

I appreciate the humor but then I recall that conservatives, even well off conservatives really do feel sorry for themselves. Their ancestors came over and killed and imprisoned the natives and stole their land and now feel sorry for themselves because they have to pay for some of the costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afganistan.We should make those Indians pay for our wars! After all we beat them! It's not fair we should pay, poor poor us and our highways to drive our big gas guzzlings cars on.I feel so sorry for Christians! All these godless people drawing down hurricanes on the US and then the taxes they have to pay. We need more for our tax dollars. Lets kill all the natives, democrats,liberal Christians, gays, atheists, idolators and set up a God fearing nation, no disasters. Nuke the hell out of the rest of the world and bask in self righteousness being served by a handful of pious third world wage slaves that we permit to buy our pepsi and coke and worship the way we tell them to.Robin feels nausea about what he calls the boasting of athiest. I don't know how so many can stomach the self pity of the conservatives who seek to financially exploit the rest of the world and then become indignant at having to pay part of the bill, most of it being passed on to their children in the form of national debt. Bush and the war profiteers keep raking it in. But oh, no it's those native Americans who are to blame. Poor poor conservatives. You are polluting and ruining the world and blaming it on people too poor to resist your huge but costly military.lfen

Well Jews and Christians claim that's how God does it, so why not the USA? Everyone is guilty of original sin and all other crimes. The government will bust you at it's convenience. You can plead for mercy. How's that for a model judicial system?lfen

I think you are very close. "insincere huckster" doesn't quite do personality disorders enough credit. These kinds of character disorders do tend to go out of control though and push things further and further and act out increasingly.Welcome to EvC!lfen