Wisconsin State Rep: "The Earth Is 6,000 Years Old, That's A Fact"

[trotsky]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/06/wisconsin-state-rep-earth-6000-years-old-thats-fact/

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While leading an attack on academic freedom at the University of Wisconsin, Rep. Jesse Kremer says he is certain the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Kremer, a documented Christian extremist and an intellectually incompetent buffoon is currently leading the charge to pass legislation that would expel or suspend students who disrupt speakers at the University of Wisconsin.

Kremer is the author of a controversial campus free speech bill that would intrude “on the University of Wisconsin System’s authority to run its campuses” and would “squelch expression — not encourage it.”

...Previously the dazed and confused Wisconsin lawmaker made the ludicrous claim that the separation of church and state is a “complete fabrication,” while arguing that the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. Can't question their existence.....

but gotta' wonder about the people who elect these people!

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Buffoonery is real.

[kimbutgar]

3. What about those 300,000 year old skulls found recently?

[BigMin28]

4. He would probably

Call it " fake news", or a liberal agenda. These people are idiots.

[trotsky]

5. Satan planted them to test our faith!

That, or the scientists (who are in league with Satan, naturally) are lying.

[Mariana]

6. It's a lie, of course.

The skulls can't possibly be 300,000 years old because the earth is only 6,000 years old. See how that works?

[Bradical79]

10. I can't remember

From my recollection when I was a member of such a church, there were some rather complex head twisting attempts to make such claims "scientific". Lots of attacks on flaws in carbon dating methods (now completely irrelevent), alternative methods to come up with the number they wanted, and lots of other pseudo-scientific bullshit, just like flat earthers.

Many though just simply go with "Satan's tricking us" since even the fake science is too much thinking for them.

[Iggo]

7. Fucking morons. Every single one of them. (n/t)

[edhopper]

8. This is what GOP gerrymandering

has brought us.

Ignorant Christian fascists.

And people will vote for this buffoon because he has an R after his name.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. This is also what Reagan's gang has brought us

The co-mingling of right-wing politics and religion.

It's a lot easier to persuade people to vote for monsters if the person they are trusting to guide them to heaven tells them god wants them to vote for monsters.

(Of course, if they actually READ the words of their "Lord and Savior" they'd ... well, they'd leave the church they are currently attending, for starters)

[uriel1972]

12. The Old Testament in particular...

is particularly concerned with persecuting outsiders and LGBTQI people... I think they love that part and stop there. Not that the New Testament is stainless, it's anti-semitism is striking and vile. YMMV

[MineralMan]

11. Well, of course. It's obviously at least that old.

Anyone who says it's less than 6000 years old is obviously an idiot.