There’s more but Ernie actually gave me a better summary in an e-mail a couple of weeks ago

I could debate the subject of persecution of Kent, but then I would have to raise all the same issues of the Knights cavalier, the illuminati, the holy grail, the ark of the covenant, etc. because all of those relate back to the fallen angel, Satan and his dominion of earth and it’s Governments, so only well studied real Bible believing Christians would buy into my debate, so I’m best not debating Kent’s persecution over creation views and it’s foundation in Genesis, although I feel strongly those are the reasons. Personally, I believe as I’ve heard it said it’s not about the Muslims and the Christians, it’s not about black or white, but it is about the haves and the have nots. And they use the secret societies and governments to persecute those who expose their plots.

Richard Hofstadter  identified this type of viewpoint as a perennial of American history, “the paranoid style – the existence of a vast, insidious, preternaturally effective international conspiratorial network designed to perpetrate acts of the most fiendish character”.  Writing in 1965, Hofstadter observed “Today the evolution controversy seems as remote as the Homeric era to intellectuals in the East”.  Sadly Hofstadter died in 1970, so he is not available to weigh in on the persistence of the controversy.  I don’t think it would have surprised him.