Jack and religion
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Jack has been a Christian ever since he met Tammy.
Theology of retribution
The theology of retribution is a belief system characterized by the notion that bad things only happen to bad people. For example, if person A loses their home to a flood, in the theology of retribution, this is proof person A has sinned and therefore must repent to avoid further calamity. This postulate also implies that good things happen to good people, and is the basis of prosperity gospel and scam churches et. al.
Interestingly, this is a belief that Jack holds.[1] According to the theology of retribution, Jacks strokes are proof that Jack's indulgent life wasted in sin angers God, and are righteous marks of Devine punishment in response to Jacks gluttony and sloth.
Biblical literalism
Biblical literalism is the idea that the Bible is not open to interpretation, and every word of the Bible is to be taken at face value. For example, according to biblical literalists, the phrase "The Lion shall lie with the lamb" used in the Bible is not meant to illustrate the magnitude of peace the coming of the kingdom of Heaven (an event falsely predicted by first century Christians to occur within their lifetime), but is instead meant to be seen as a literal observation - in which a lion has a nap with a literal lamb.
Jack cites biblical literalism as the basis of his approach to the Bible, and also the reason he is so skeptical of science.[2]
Young Earth creationism
Jack uploaded a video to his Eye to Eye channel on 20 January 2020 in which he interviews Eric "Independent, temperamental, fundamental, chicken-eatin' Baptist - the dangerous kind" Hovind. Jack spends most of it just nodding along, as Eric decries the scientific community in favor of a American Baptist interpretation of history and the Bible. Jack never disagrees with anything Hovind says, and it can be reasonably assumed that Jack holds many of these beliefs himself.
Age of the earth
The first chapters of the Bible detail a story of creation. This singular fact is the entire basis of this belief system, and is the cudgel of logic Hovind uses to smash idiotic ideas such as radiometric dating, cosmic ray analysis, the Hubble constant and Geology. According to Hovind, the only valid piece of information in existence is the Bible, and therefore the only valid way to compute the age of the universe is to add up the ages of all people detailed in the Bible. Through this process, Hovind has determined the age of the universe to be about four to six-thousand years old.
Hovind holds firm in the belief that not only is it impossible to prove the Earth is billions of years old; it is also impossible for the human mind to conceive of numbers larger than 6000. Hovind also postulates that if something is impossible for humans to conceive of, that proves that thing cannot exist in reality. Hovind also adds that the scientific community uses large numbers as a propaganda technique. According to Hovind, these numbers have been engineered by scientists to overload peoples minds - forcing them to believe in the false narrative of science.
Evolution
Hovind contends that there is no evidence to support the theory of evolution. Hovind mischaracterizes the mutation clause in the theory of evolution, claiming it states that animals produce completely different offspring to their parents. In reality, the theory of evolution states that the DNA from one generation to another will be largely unchanged, and mutation will only become apparent on timescales of at least 100,000 years. Hovind says that believing in the Big Bang/evolution is wrong. He says that it is impossible to determine morality outside of the Bible, and therefore non-Christians are people who refuse morality.
Dinosaurs?
Hovind believes that reptiles can grow without limit and this is the cause of the large reptilian fossils uncovered by paleontologists. Hovind believes these larger reptiles went extinct during the flood in Noah's Ark.
Hitler
Hovind makes references to the führer of Nazi Germany for no adequately explained reason in three separate instances in this video, within a timespan of just 15 minutes. Hovind often equates those who do not believe in creationism to Nazis.