Surprisingly — or not? — the Creation Museum openly promotes the belief that black people are the descendants of Ham, father of Canaan, whom Noah cursed to be “servant of servants”. This archaic belief, once used to justify slavery, seems to be on the rise again.
AiG's Creation Museum Says Black People are Hamites. Click for JUMBO version.
Ham? And was their mother Cheese? What are you talking about?
Ham was one of the three sons of Noah. You remember Noah, right? He’s the man who, with his wife, his three sons, and their wives, provided no warning whatsoever to anybody over the course of 100 years that the Lord was going to flood the Earth. (Not what you heard in Sunday School? Try the Bible, friend! Sister Shirlee’s RealBibleStories.com tells it like it is.)
After the Flood, Noah and family set forth to incestuously repopulate the Earth (Genesis 9). Noah decided that, since food was somehow abundant, despite the obliteration of all life on Earth, he should tend a vineyard and make wine instead of growing actual food. Apparently, Shem, Ham, and Japheth took care of growing the real food.
Noah gets hammered. Let’s see what happens!
Genesis 9: 18-27
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
So . . . Noah cursed Ham’s son, Canaan, to be “a servant of servants”.
According to the Creation Museum, Canaan and his descendants populated Africa. They were called [the nation of] Canaan, or Canaanites.
Populated Africa . . . That’d make them black folks, huh?
The argument that Noah cursed all of Canaan’s descendants has been used for centuries to justify the enslavement of black people. And Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum continues to promote this belief.
But, Ken Ham cries, I’m not racist! I even wrote a book about how not racist I am! It’s called One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racism
Well, I guess Ken can’t be racist at all. Let’s see what article he proudly posts on his Answers in Genesis website:
All races therefore have developed from this one family since the end of the flood in Noah’s day . . . The culture (technology and religions, etc.) of each racial group in the world started at a common point-Noah-with full knowledge of God and a sophisticated ocean liner technology. The current states of culture of the races, which varies from space age to stone age, from animal worship and spirit worship to Christianity, is not a result of innocent, ignorant people searching for improvement. It is a direct consequence of whether the ancestors of any race worshipped the living God or deliberately rejected Him.
That’s right. According to Ken Ham, those dark-skinned people in Third World nations are uneducated and starving to death and riddled with disease because their ancestors deliberately rejected his “god”.
What would Ken Ham have us do to remedy the situation? Terminate food and medical aid, and instead ship Bibles and missionaries? Great plan, that!
. . . not that I’d be offended if all the missionaries got sent to Africa, mind you.
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The English versions of the Bible have been purposely mistranslated.
In the original Hebrew it explicitly grants Jewish People the right to keep and use all goyim as slaves.
That includes all the foolish Christians and Muslims who run around worshiping somebody else’s god.
Umm the Muslim God and Christian God are the same as the Jewish God?
Yes. You mean you didn’t know that?
That’s why the trio of monothiestic horrors are called “the Abrahamic religions.”
As mentioned earlier, the Bible is common to all three. Same traditions, same vengeful and malevolent god, same hatred of humanity. The whole history of warfare, strife, blood and horror is about who holds the copyright on the sequel.
IT ALL A LIE!!!
the bible is a load of CRAP!.. written by man, used by fools!
see the history of the bible, everything relates to an ancient pharaoh in Egypt a thousand years before “jesus”….
look it up!!
When Ken Ham needs is a good interfaith dialogue, amirite?
What would you hope to accomplish with that? Jews and Muslims believe the same thing; the Old Testament is common to all three.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.THEY SAY GOD IS ALMIGHTY RIGHT THEN WHO MADE GOD HIMSELF?WHO EVER MADE HIM HAS TO BE HIGHER THAN HIM.ALSO I DO TRUST THAT BLACK PEOPLE DID COME FR NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.I KNOW THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE BEGINNING AND THE END TO ALL THINGS.
I think you’ve pressed your capslock key. You can turn it off now.
This is not new. I read the same interpretation in a Childrens Bible when I was a child in India. The blessed son migrated to Europe, the cursed son went to Africa. And my teacher explained that thats why Africans were backward and dominated by Europeans.
This is just Western racisim which was imposed on India and other places by the British.
More than one African leader has said: “When the Europeans came, they had the Bible and we had the land. The missionaries taught us to read the Bible and pray with our eyes closed. And when we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and the Europeans had the land”.
This ignorance is not suprising. I am of afro-carribean descent and I have lived my whole life under this racist, religious, misinformed, way of thinking. It forces many blacks that have darker skin to carry around the burden of low self-esteem.
Pastor Mike is either:
A) An idiot and can not even read the heading on the picture he posted.
B) A liar not interested in understanding this topic.
C) Both A and B
The picture he posts lists the dispersion of people groups after the Tower of Babel… not Noah’s direct descendants (Ham). The Bible is very clear man again disobeyed God after the flood and there was another judgment (language and people dispersion and isolation) because of this disobedience. It has nothing to do with AiG, Ken Ham, or anyone else asserting that Ham’s descendants are cursed black people.
Pastor Mike purposely sets up a straw man argument here by asserting the aforementioned point without explaining to his readers what the Bible and AiG clearly teach. His obfuscation obviously fools some of his readers. He preys on their pathetic ignorance while just a cursory critique of this article is made… is makes him look like a liar and idiot. So, I go with (C).
Trinity is:
A) An idiot who has never read the Bible;
B) A liar not interested in what the Bible says or what AiG promotes; or
C) Both A and B.
If you read the Bible, you would know that Noah cursed Canaan, son of Ham. Not Ham. As stated in the Scripture Pastor Mike quoted.
If you read the Bible OR the image posted, you’d see that Canaan went into and populated Africa from Babel, according to the Bible and as promoted by AiG and Ken Ham. And as stated by Pastor Mike.
So, which is it? Are you ignorant of the Bible, a liar, or both?
Isn’t this a gem.
Perhaps Jenny ought to look at the poster… a second… or (based on her post) three or perhaps four more times before joining the intellectual taxonomical classification as Pastor Mikey (idiot).
If you look at the poster… it states “Descendants of Ham”. Canaan, was indeed a descendant of Ham Jenny dear. However, he did have some brothers (Gen 10:6 – Cush, Mizraim, and Put) who migrated into Africa. Canaan stayed in Arabia Jenny . That is why they call it Cush… I mean… Mizraim… Put… um… OK… uh… yeah, they call it Canaan. This is why Pastor Mikey and that Sleazy Meyers who wrote the article in the first place have no business equating this poster with the Hamite theory and more importantly.. Mikey… when he wrote “According to the Creation Museum, Canaan and his descendants populated Africa. They were called [the nation of] Canaan, or Canaanites” is either lying or an idiot… just like ole Trinity wrote.
Does this help-ya?
Trinity, dear, I suggest you do a little homework on the Hamitic theory.
Here’s a reference which you might respect: Wikipedia
Notice… your citation states:
“During the Middle Ages, this was interpreted to define Ham as the ancestor of all Africans.” This much might be true… but it has nothing to do with the cursed peoples… it has nothing to do with what AiG teaches or what the poster implies.
The point is Ms. Jenny, Pastor Mikey and Sir Sleazy Meyers are both lying about what the Answers in Genesis poster implies and what the Bible has to say about said theory.
Either way, they are wrong. The poster says nothing about Canaan going to Africa. The Bible says nothing about Canaan going to Africa. So, my dear, how in the hell does this poster imply the ‘cursed peoples’ going to Africa? The fact of the matter is… it doesn’t. So, when Mikey says it does… he is lying. When Sleazy Meyers insists that AiG is promoting the Hamite Theory… he is lying. Both are liars then.
Trinity, notice the poster clearly shows “Descendants of Ham” going into Africa.
Canaan was a descendant of whom?
and Canaan went where?
Ham had four boys Jenny… that doesn’t mean all of them went to Africa.
Remember… Canaan is not in Africa!!! It is Palestine… Israel today. Hence… no curse. Hence… the poster doesn’t imply Hamite Theory. Hence… Mikey and PZ are lying.
The poster says, clearly, that the descendants of Ham, of which Canaan was one, went into Africa. Do you deny this?
Yeah… Canaan did not go to Africa. Is that clear enough?
The Bible clearly states that Ham had four sons. History clearly teaches that the Land of Canaan is NOT in Africa. Do you deny this?
For the love of life Jenny… why are you trying to defend these two idiots? The poster says or implies nothing about the Hamite Theory. The poster is consistent with what the Bible teaches… that descendents of Ham; Cush, Mizraim, and Put, migrated to Africa. It also teaches that Canaan (the one who was cursed and is the foundational character in the Hamite Theory for the racist subjugation of Black – cursed Africans) never migrated to Africa.
Pastor Mikey and Sleazy Meyers both knew this when they tried to tie the poster and the theory together. They are lying… pure and simple, but yet… here is Jenny… trying to defend what is obvious to everyone else.
I REALLY DONT THINK BLACK PEOPLE SEE THE BIGGER PICTRUE OF LIFE.WE MAKE LIFE WHAT WE WANT IT TO BE.PEOPLE PRAY AND PRAY TO GOD FOR SO MANY THINGS AND WHEN IT DOES NOT HAPPEN FOR THEM THEY GET MAD,WHY?NOTHING WILL HAPPEN FOR BLACK PEOPLE IF WE DONT GET OFF OUR ASSES AN DO IT OUR SELF.I THINK WE CONTROL OUR OWN LIVES.MAINLY BECAUSE THE CHOICES WE MAKE IN LIFE DOES SOMETIMES AFFECT OUR FUTRUE.ALL I AM TRYING TO SAY HERE IS THAT BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO OPEN THEIR 3RD EYE AND SEE THE TRUTH.THEY HAVE BE REBORN ALL OVER AGAIN.THERE ARE SO MANY DUMB,DEAF,AND BLIND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD IT MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH.WE ARE GODS OUR SELF IF YOU KNEW THAT.I AM ALWAYS WILLING TO GIVE THE TRUE FACTS TO A BROTHER IF HE REALLY WANTS TO NOW SOMETHING ABOUT HIM SELF.
AS a black man I have never been cursed, I am no more cursed by noahs drunken rants, than i am cursed by eves desire of apples, every man or woman is to be judged by every word that comes from their mouth, or whoso ever will or as we think so are we but this notion of fables holding curses over us is childish. It is clear to all who can see that God is moving among the chosen people of God, the created people who were cursed by the grafted people and are as we speak being robbed of their birth right. how can the people of no scripture preside over another peoples bible and pretend the Gods who set the stars in their geometrical patterns and lit the black universe with suns, who’s mode of travel is mind boggling,are not they a more advanced version of the hammites or elders of the planet, this is bigger than color!!
The white race as a whole has not documented or made 1 complete cycle of the sun the vernal equinox that is to say 1 full 25,000 year cycle. it takes 12 2100 year cycles to make a full journey of our sun and planet
Being as how food and medical aid doesnt seem to be making a heck of a lot of difference in 3rd world hell holes where rebel armies, corrupt governments and criminal gangs steal the shipments, maybe missionaries and Bibles would be a better alternative. Course we could also send typically arrogant smart mouthed atheists in and let them come up with some solutions. They do do solutions right? Not just whine?
I agree that throwing food and medical aid into overpopulated and unstable countries doesn’t help much. I suggest we tie food aid to population management strategies.
If they can’t bring their populations under control, they will never be stable . . . they will always fight over resources.