Ken Ham is offering free admission to schools after an atheist group warns against Ark Encounter field trips
Noah’s Ark, the centerpiece of the Ark Encounter, is being targeted by atheist groups for “religious myths and proselytizing,” but its founder, Ken Ham, says the outside groups are “bullying” and “intimidating” kids. He’s offered to give schools free admission to the site if they decide to defy the atheists.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to over 1,000 school districts in five states surrounding the tourist attraction in Williamstown, Kentucky, warning them a field trip to the Ark would be unconstitutional.
Ham is calling out the groups for spending all their time attacking Christians.
Ham told Fox news, “The atheist groups like American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have been increasingly aggressive to restrict the free exercise of religion, particularly Christianity and they’ve tried to brainwash people with an interpretation of the First Amendment… it does not mean that Christians are second class citizens.”
Ham explained that as long as school officials visit the 510-foot-long Ark with an educational prespective and tell the students they don’t have to believe what they see, much like visiting a mosque, then they are well within their rights.