“So the activist liberal judge says that Pastor Hovind owes the US Government a great deal of money - but did they count all the good he had done?”
My wife does our taxes, but i really don’t recall any block for ‘good that been done’ being part of the math.
Hovind didn’t pay his taxes. End of complaint.
“Did they count the souls he helped save, and the kids he educated?"
He homeschooled his kids and calls himself a science teacher. Not part of the fraud he’s been convicted of, but also not a line on the tax form.
“Every single child who passes through Dinosaur Adventure Land gets to learn about how neo-Darwinism is a lie - would they have learnt that important message had Kent not done his best?”
Yes. No one goes to Dinosaur Adventure who doesn’t already believe that Darwin’s work has a religious element.
“Did they count the fact that he works for Jesus, the person who founded the USA, a higher authority than even the President?”
Oh, you’re not actually asking questions, you’re giving a sermon. Oooookay.
Then just fuck off with your lies.
“I put it to you that it is not Kent who owes the IRS, but the US government who owes Kent.”
But we have a secular government. And they specifically pay people to teach things the government needs taught. And those people pay taxes on what they’re paid, too.
So, a bit of a null-statement, here, what?
“But hold on a minute - didn’t the Bible say that holy people would be tested? Kent is yet another martyr for Jesus, willing to go to prison to stand up for what he thinks is right.”
But what he thinks is right is fraud.
Being willing to pay your debt to society when caught by society is not a mark of honor, just guilt.
“I just know that God has a plan for him, and if that means he has to do ten years in a prison I am sure that Kent will face up to that plan with his usual dignity and moral courage.”
Heh. Sure. And come out of it asking for money from fools like you.
“Heck, he might even get to teach some of his fellow prisoners about the exciting science of Intelligent Design - perhaps that is what God wants?”
Gotta think God should be better at finding representatives who haven’t committed perjury in tax court.