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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
He’s still unhappy about being convicted of tax evasion (and yes, he certainly was guilty)
The pdf linked in the tweet is an image so no quotes, but I’ll report a few of the highlights. And of course it includes silly Sovereign Citizen nonsenose like the idea that Hovind isn’t subject to Federal law because he doesn’t have a contract. He’s blaming the conviction for the fact that he hasn’t had any speaking engagements this year (I hope the fact that he is a raving loon had something to do with that, but I bet it’s mostly COVID-19) and for his divorce. Oh, and apparently withholding employee taxes is slavery so of course Hovind shouldn’t have to do that. And the employees shouldn’t have to pay tax anyway... Sigh. Hovind’s relationship with the law is pretty much the same as his relationship with science.
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jar Member (Idle past 421 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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PaulK writes: Sigh. Hovind’s relationship with the law is pretty much the same as his relationship with science. Sigh. Hovind’s relationship with the law is pretty much the same as his relationship with reality.
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Phat Member Posts: 18343 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
I had to look this guy up. He was talked about here in our Forum for many years but I never knew much about him. According to the internet:
quote:Im not sure why he felt that he had to protest being taxed. Does not scripture say: Mark 12:17 writes:
Seems to me that Kent needs a scolding from jar about whether he has ever read the Bible? 14 When they had come, they said to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we pay, or shall we not pay?But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it. 16 So they brought it. And He said to them, Whose image and inscription is this? They said to Him, Caesar’s. 17 And Jesus answered and said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.Calvin Coolidge "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.-RC Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith - You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott I Have Strong Arguments Which I Cant Say To You~CG
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Greed is the obvious motive. He was evading taxes for years before the IRS had enough of his shenanigans and took him to court. And it seems that he’s paid almost nothing of the penalties imposed on his conviction.
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jar Member (Idle past 421 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
What is far worse is that he did not pay his employees share of Social Security and Unemployment Insurance and so they are not eligible to collect either. He fucked everybody he could as well as poisoning their minds.
He is a classic Piece of Christian Shit!
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I had to look this guy up. He was talked about here in our Forum for many years but I never knew much about him. Basically he's what you would call a real piece of work. While being the archetypical YEC evangelist, he also spins off into so much other weird and wacky. His primary presentation and debate tool is his PowerPoint files with about 1500 pages that he can call up at a moment's notice -- those came in handy for me by giving me the scientific reference being misrepresented by that particular claim (AISTR, it was the anomalous carbon-dating age for a living animal, either for fresh-water clams or for seals (actually due to the well-known "reservoir effect" since they weren't getting their carbon from the atmosphere as required for carbon-dating)). His claims are classic YEC claims that he seems far more interested in recycling than in actually studying:
Kent Hovind's stage name is "Dr. Dino" because of his "PhD". He's so emphatic about that title that he insisted that the phone company list him as "Dr. Kent Hovind" in the phone book. And because of that title of "Dr" and his frequent boasts of being an expert in science and mathematics because he taught both subjects for 15 years, most of his followers consider him to be a scientist. First, there's his questionable education. After graduating from high school, he attended community college for a year before transferring to an unaccredited private Baptist college, from which he received a bachelor's in Religion. Then from another unaccredited entity, Patriot University (basically a diploma mill running out of a double-wide, though I think they moved to an actual private residence at some point) he bought a master's degree in Religious Education. Then also from Patriot he bought his "PhD", also in Religious Education -- the irregularities with his "dissertation" are legendary. And please note that none of his degrees mention anything about science, though he might have had an introductory science course in community college. As for his claim of having taught high school math and science for 15 years:
And he knows full well that his claims are false, given how he avoids discussing them and how he actively attempts to cover them up. For example, there's his solar mass loss claim (link is to my page on that claim) in which he claims:
quote:When I contacted him to learn what his source and his calculations were, he went out of his way to avoid answering those legitimate questions, even to the point of twice trying to pick a fight with me over my AOL account name DWise1 (follow the link for the origin story). It turns out that that claim is refuted simply by doing the math, so Kent Hovind has repeatedly on separate occasions specifically instructed his audience to not do the math -- "I swear to God and three other white men" (Redd Foxx). Im not sure why he felt that he had to protest being taxed. That is more because of one of his several other wacky sidelines. He would frequently include both health and tax advice. What Kent Hovind advocates is tied into what's called the sovereign citizen movement:
quote: So, creationists are not the only ones to live by quote-mining.
ABE: The "Christian" connection comes through white-supremacists and their ilk:
quote: A number of the more radical "sovereign citizens" have been classified as "domestic terrorists." Edited by dwise1, : ABE
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