It’s been a while since I wrote a piece on the tax protesting, spouse abusing, pedophile enabling cult leader that is Kent Hovind. That’s not to say that I’ve been avoiding him. Far from it, my YouTube channel has been focused on covering his absolute insanity that is his existence. However, as a chance to get more in the spirit of writing in conjunction with my YouTube efforts, I thought I’d type this piece out while I felt the urge.
To be clear, I’ve written pieces on Kent before covering him in a broad sense. Here, I just wanted to focus on the obsession Kent has with debates.
Ever since his release from prison just shy of 10 years ago, Kent has been telling everyone and anyone who dares disagree with him that he’ll “debate them any time” and to “call 855-BIG-DINO Extension 4” and schedule a debate with whomever his current tech guy is.
This falls on the heels of his pre-arrest career where he somewhat regularly had far more, shall we say, formal, debates, with actual scientists who, for some reason, took him seriously enough to actually hold such an interaction with him. This, of course, added to Kent’s already massive ego which, as we all know, was very bruised due to his arrest and the loss of the original Dinosaur Adventure Land and, well, everything in his life. The Kent Hovind of today is a bitter shell of his former self.
Still, as he continues to do his day in, day out videos where he runs the same tired script over and over, he will offer to anyone and everyone he does a video on, or whomever does content on him, to do the above – calling a particular number and setting up such with his people, on his terms. His terms, of course, being designed so he can run his script and can do whatever he wants in the running of said script, but won’t allow the opposition the capability to point out how dishonest and flat out wrong he is.
That’s the key take away, though – it’s always doing this his way, on his terms. He will never have his people contact someone else to set up such, even when specifically told he should do such. That is to say, he won’t have his goons do that.
No, Kent wants to make it seem like he is in demand — that people are seeking him out for debate. It’s one of a great many subtle, but still evident, tactics Kent does to make himself still appear relevant.
The thing is, over the past few months, the number of debates involving Hovind have decreased significantly. It appears the primary outlet that Kent has used (or more correctly, outlet which has used Kent for views,) Standing For Truth, has pushed him to the wayside.
This is especially the case following the termination of the Genesis Baptist Church YouTube channel. It would appear, to me at least, that Kent is seen as “fruit of the poisonous tree” and only the most devoted to his bullshit channels will bother to host him, if only in an interview fashion. No debates, that’s for sure.
Yet Kent still postures as he does, because he’s desperate. It’s already pathetic that he thinks this “debate me bro, debate me” line he always runs has any meaning or value to the facts, but it’s even more so to see him not only, finally, getting no debate offers; that is, people finally not giving him such attention or validating his over inflated ego.
Still, the thing that stands out most to me, personally, is just how much of an outright coward Kent is in that, for all his posturing, he clearly won’t put in any effort to set up such debates on his own. As mentioned above, he wants everyone else to contact his people to set things up, yet he is the one “challenging” everyone to debates. Yet when people who have more important things to do than waste their time arguing with him don’t take him up on your half-assed offer, he calls them cowards like some rejected high school movie villain.
No Kent, you’re just not worth it, and if you care so much about these debates, as you act like you do, you would go through the effort to have your people actually plan such.
But you don’t. You never will, because you’re a coward. A pathetic old man barely holding on to a pathetic re-creation of the temple of lies he once had as a “ministry.” Someone playing a tough guy online who, ironically, calls everyone else “keyboard warriors” and such because, when push comes to shove, all you have is projection of your own faults on to others.
Ah well, my lunch break is over so I’ve got not much more time to refine this, so I might as well publish it and let it be.
Yeah, that’s right, I typed this on the fly. Not the best but still better than Kent’s prepared “sermons!”
Whatever case, more to come down the line.