Lifeway, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, has a summer program for children this year that thinking adults will want to keep their kids away from.
VBS 2017 turns your kids into Galactic Starveyors. As kids focus their telescopes on the marvels painted in the sky by the Creator, they will discover the wonder among all wonders–that the God who created everything there is–the knowable and the unknowable, the visible and the invisible–wants a personal relationship with them. Come and learn about the God who is over the moon in love with you.
These people make my head hurt. Do you think they will mention that two of the best-known astronomers of the last century — Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson — are atheists?
No. That will not be mentioned. What they will do is lie to these poor captive children and tell them science upholds their ridiculous tales.
I checked, and the local Baptist church that exemplifies everything educated, decent-minded adults despise about religion is offering the program this summer. That church teaches that the earth is less than 10,000-years old, that Godly people always put Jesus’ pleasure first and their family can have the leftovers, and years ago the lobby contained a kiosk that distributed literature about the gay menace, the wickedness of celebrating Halloween, on and on.
Bah.