ByteOnBikesHey! I may be grumpy, and bitter, and lash out at children, and trick people into neglecting God's Word but... What was that other thing you said?
Ecco the dolphinHoly shit. I can’t believe I recognize this art.
This shit is ancient, and it was drawn as satire/bait. Nobody is handing out these flyers seriously. This post is rather embarrassing. Satire is dead I guess.
So I followed your link, found the quoted text, and and had a look around the website. I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire. Most of the links are now dead, but the ones that work seem to lead to serious sources. If it is satire, it is very high effort.
Anyway, I’m going to share with a friend who has more personal experience with this kind of thing and get their perspective.
So quick update: my friend who was homeschooled in a religious household but is now atheist thinks it is not satire. My take is that if this is satire, it’s going over a lot of people’s heads.
Not Chad McTruthI can’t believe some people think this is satire i mean come on its a real ministry with a clear message of love and salvation through jesus christ its not some kind of joke or parody its a genuine attempt to spread the word of god and bring people to christ
i mean look at the content like habus corner where it says wouldnt you rather have just one god who loves you a bunch than a bunch of gods that dont love you at all thats just so profound and insightful
and the maze training where you help lambuel get to the church on time while avoiding temptations thats just so practical and wise i mean who wouldnt want to avoid money and ice cream and slutty lips and a cozy bed
i mean what kind of person would create a fake ministry just to mock good christians and make fun of their faith
oce 🐆I think there is worse in churches with actual believers.
samus12345There is.
ByteJunkAnd for all He’s done for us, all Jesus wants is for us to love Him back! He wants us to love Him soooo much that any other love would be like hate: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." I love Jesus more than ANYTHING… how 'bout YOU?
Cmon really? How is it not evident that this is satire?
Pretty sure the post you’re responding to is satire. Poe’s Law.
Well, there’s this…
…but honestly, I could see somebody sufficiently naive not recognizing that for what it is.
This one, however, is a bit less covert:
And then you recall reading this in the intro on the first page, and a pattern starts to develop:
My OBJECTIVE is JUST 4 KIDZ! The “Z” is for “ZEALOUSNESS,” 'cause Jesus wants us to be hot for Him, not lukewarm.
There is an image to a shop page:
This link is broken. Hmm… If this were a real organization that needed money, wouldn’t they either shut this site down entirely or fix their shop page?
Notice the LOL acronym. Now visit this page:
Here are some of my favorites (notice most ofthese children are pretty talented and drawing with computer programs in 2010):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church
It’s satire, but Poe Law is STRONG with this one! There are plenty of people who unironically believe more ridiculous things than whats on that site.
It’s very well written satire. As someone who’s previously been part of evangelical house churches I can tell it’s been written by someone who was part of church life for years.
It’s so very well done I wasn’t sure myself of it was real or not. Believe it or not I’ve known many genuine Christians who could crank out earnest content that was this cheesy and insane.
The clincher for me if that it neither asks for money nor gives an address. => Satire
(On the kids ministry page, the music track listings are particular genius)
Man this brings me back, haven’t seen this since the 2000s. You can find the goat as a printable figure on the Kidz crafts link
Satire is dead I guess.
Yes. We’re at this point now. It’s Poe’s law.
tetris11After clicking through the site, and seeing a list of church members, I’m really not sure it’s satire. If it is, its keeping a very very straight face.
It is.
I don’t know where the goat went.
It tries to serve you .swf (Shockwave Flash) versions unless your browser doesn’t support embedding, in which case it’ll serve you .gifs instead. I guess that, since modern browsers do support embedding in general but not Flash, that’s why they don’t display either version.
Here are some of the .gif alternatives:
The only one I don’t get is the Hebrew kangaroo. I guess the artist couldn’t figure out what fauna was appropriate so they went for a rhyme instead? IMO, there’s lots to choose from, but a “rabbi rabbit” would have also been pretty clever.
Yeah I remember this from back in the day. Indignant atheist teenage me was pretty incensed at first, but the page about plans to build a massive cross-shaped satellite that transmits bible verses was a bit of a giveaway.
FuglyDuckThis site may be satire, but it’s also linking to the southern baptist’s on the off chance you want to “find christ”. So, they’re definitely Christians. if it is satire, then it’s triggering poe’s law.