Creationist Ken Ham Can’t Wait To Disappoint Your Children This Halloween
While Halloween is obviously the best holiday, there are always those who want to ruin the fun for everyone else. Your friendly neighborhood dentist with his shame bucket of toothbrushes, anyone who hands out licorice or those weird round fake M&Ms, jerks who think a woman in her thirties has no business trick-or-treating… and now Creationist Ken Ham.
In a recent post on his Answers in Genesis blog, Ham is taking a cue from everyone’s favorite Christian cartoonist Jack Chick and suggesting that people hand out proselytizing tracts along with their candy, because what kid doesn’t want a copy of A Biblical and Historical Look at Halloween taking up important candy space in their repurposed pillowcases?
Ham (or someone from his “research team”) writes:
Halloween has its obvious downsides, but we can use this day to share the hope of Christ with others by welcoming trick-or-treaters with some candy (or maybe a healthier snack!) and a gospel booklet. Our A Biblical and Historical Look at Halloween booklets are a great way to introduce older trick-or-treaters or their parents to the history of this day, fascinating facts about Halloween, and, most importantly, the gospel message. These tracts are available from our store in different-sized packs at a discounted price.
Oh yeah, children will love that. (I mean, I actually would have loved that because I would have found the tracts hilarious, but probably others will just be annoyed.) Though this is probably a good way to alert your neighbors to the fact that they might want to avoid you.
And speaking of annoying your neighbors — Ham also suggests a thing he is calling “reverse trick-or-treating” in which you show up to your neighbors house with a bunch of cookies and religious tracts.
… Include a gospel booklet with your home-baked or store-bought treats. This is a great way to encourage your kids to give and bless others as well as share the gospel as a family.
This is a weird and rude thing to do, regardless of what your neighbor’s religious affiliation is, even if it does involve free cookies. Not to mention that even the Mormons don’t make their kids proselytize door-to-door until they’re 18-years old or so.
If that isn’t annoying enough for you, Answers In Genesis would like to sell you their whole “Halloween Learn and Share Kit,” which includes tracts written on fake dollar bills with a dinosaur face in the middle of them. Because of how Jesus hung out with dinosaurs all the time…
HAHA! See, it’s funny because the person thinks you gave them some money, but actually you gave them JESUS. And a dinosaur. What a great surprise! Reminds me of those swell fake $20 bill Jesus tracts I’d get instead of a tip on occasion when I was a server, and boy was that ever a good time.
The whole kit will cost you only $17.99 (a $29 value, they assure you!), though ruining your neighbor’s Halloween is surely priceless
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Christopher Hitchins was so right - religion poisons everything.
One thing I will say about Ham, he is quite the entrepreneur. He never seems to miss an opportunity to peddle his products or recruit. And what better force for recruitment than to deploy hoards of minions with a built-in excuse to ring a doorbell and proselytize.
Despicable him.
I don't comment much at all on the daily religious or anti religious seeds we see here, but I do find it really annoying that this nut wants to insert Christian proselytizing into children's Halloween fun.
Wonderment at the prospect of supernatural spookiness has been part of the human psyche forever and hopefully always willl be.
Now I know what this stuff is for:
Is that suppose to be funny?
Only for folks with a sense of humor. You may have wandered into the wrong seed.
I think it's funny.
Indoctrination of the youth is always a hoot!
I think it's funny.
These tracts are available from our store in different-sized packs at a discounted price
I'm sure this has more to do with the above than spreading the good word