Abridging Faith, Is That Such a Thing? Plus Arguing with Non-existent Abuse?

Sorry I have been a bit busy with other activities and haven't been posting.  Sometimes real life gets in the way of entertainment, and I do so find the whole anti-science arguments from creationists of various stripes truly entertaining.

While I haven't been posting, I have been trying to keep up on events, like little kennie ham 'abridging' his Statement of Faith and Kentucky's Governor inventing cases of child abuser to lash out at teachers who were striking:

Little kennie is changing his Statement of Faith because they can't seem to find enough workers to fill the vacancies at his various ministries.  He mentioned it here:

"We hope you’ll consider joining our team! We are a Christian organization, so we do require you to sign a statement of faith regarding your adherence to the fundamentals of the Christian faith—one for seasonal workers and a more detailed statement of faith for higher job positions." (little kennie's blog post)

He further explains it in the Facebook video:

“We are a Christian organization, and as a Christian organization, we employ people who are Christians. We actually, for the seasonals, we actually have a more abridged Statement of Faith, the fundamentals of Christianity, not our detailed one for all of our full-time managers and others. So for seasonals, I know there’s a lot of young people who still aren’t necessarily mature in all their thinking in lots of areas, but if they can sign the tenets of the fundamentals of the Christian faith, they can… work here.” (little kennie Facebook post, about the 5:45 mark)

I have to ask . . . an 'Abridged Statement of Faith'?  What exactly is that?  You know for someone claiming the Bible is the source of all knowledge and a self-described Biblical Literalist, how does one 'abridge' ones faith?

What little kennie should do is stop discriminating against people who don't share his narrow view of the world and then we might be surprised how many people apply to work there.  The number one criteria should be the ability to perform a job, not whether or not you go to the same church.  I have yet to understand how believing in kennie's strain of pseudo-Christianity would improve my ability to write computer code, or a plumber's ability to maintain plumbing.

As for the other Kentucky debacle, Governor Matt Bevin (R) said on Friday that he knew kids were hurt by the teachers’ supposed selfishness:

“I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today, a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them,” Bevin told reporters outside the Capitol. “I guarantee you somewhere today, a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were left alone because a single parent didn’t have any money to take care of them.”

I don't know about you, but when I use the word 'guarantee' I am not waxing poetic.  Today he recanted . . . well . . . he sorta recanted:

I don't think he regrets what he said for one second, he was just looking to bash teachers for doing things like wanting to improve education in Kentucky with improved funding and repair the damage done to the teacher's retirement system which is underfunded by something like 66%.  

No, he really didn't recant, the only regret he has is the criticism he's been getting over his comments.  If you wonder why I pay any attention to Bevin, remember that he was the one who decided to let little kennie continue his religious discrimination -- after kennie originally said his for-profit corporation would comply with State and Federal Hiring laws.  Yea, that guy!  He's also the guy who let kim davis get away with breaking the law.

While I might have taken a break, you can see I haven't been completely out of the loop.  I'll try and post a bit more because some of these things are just so incredibly entertaining . . . to me.  I feel for the people of Kentucky.  Between Bevin and little kennie, those folks are going to paying for their decisions for years to come.