Perhaps you can give us a link to more of these slap-happy “joke” videos put out by Focus On The Family. I’ve always thought of them as a rather serious doom-n-gloom type of organization, but if you’ve got evidence that they joke around like this, I’d just love to see it.
My brother works (rather unhappily) for a high-powered exec in Hawai’i who is firmly convinced that one of the fairly recently revealed sex scandals of one of the high level Evangelicals occurred because the man was so good that he was specifically targetted by Satan. This is a woman who took an enormous pay cut (probably all the way down to two or three hundred K) to come out to Hawai’i to head up the marketing department of one of the many Seventh Day Adventist hospitals on the Island. In the minds of people like that, believing that Obama has a direct hotline to the devil to block prayer from reaching God must require very little flexibility at all.
BTW, if you ever want to go to Hawai’i to be a successful business person, being a 7th day Adventist won’t hurt you and quite possibly will help you quite a bit. They’re very big out there, apparently. But your best bet is to have been born and raised here. It’s much harder to break in to that rather insular society (including jobs) unless you already have lots of money or a lot of enthusiastic contacts already living there successfully. Or so my brother has said.
Well, here’s the clip. Sounds like a half and half to me.
Doesn’t sound “jokey” to me. It sounds like he is trying to make a request to flood the event sound like just another prayer request, like praying for sun during a picnic. Grinning a lot while pondering the destruction of an event doesn’t make it a joke.
"Would it be wrong?’
Fuck yes.
Heh, hee, hee, suaaaavvveee. In any case, don’t worry, cuz there’s the other Supersecret weapon that Obama has developed; the Obamarella. It’s amazing; at the press of a button, it expands and protects you from the mighty deluge, at least enough to walk from your car to the convention site.
And, of course, he should be able to walk us all across the water in the event that there’s any flooding…
Nah, not that dramatic…folks’ll just be wearing simple puddle-stomping Obamagaloshers. 
All these organizations with Family in their name, sheesh.
You know what I’d really like to see? Some country, probably North Korea, abolishing the family entirely and adopting the Brave New World model: conception in vitro and all children raised in State creches – just to see the religious fanatics’ heads explode when the news of this comes out. 
Except for the in vitro fertilization, that was how children were raised in Gulliver’s Lilliput.
It’s one of those things where you can’t be quite sure whether Swift was fur it or agin it.
I just hope there’s no cake at the event.
Obama park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don’t think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Not Focus on the Family specifically, just Fundies in general. I attend a Fundie church, been a Fundie all my life, used to describe myself as a Fundie here on the boards before Gobear said I couldn’t because the word “Fundie” now has different connotations from what I grew up with.
Anyway.
So yeah, all the Fundies I know tend to have not-on-the-same-page senses of humor. I can’t share Onion stories with people at church because they basically just don’t get it. And the jokes they consider real kneeslappers make me go, “Um…” Case in point: The Holy Observer. Dunno if they’re actually run by Fundies, but “read our articles looking for the message behind the jab” is classic mindset. Satire is funny only when it’s obviously satire, but too many of their “satirical articles” are uncomfortably close to reality to be funny. I know pastors who would be happy to float 30,000 rubber duckies printed with Scripture down the Euphrates; it actually sounds like someone’s pet project, not satire.
There’s an internet name for this phenomenon called Poe’s law. Basically it states that without a winking smiley or some other indicator, it’s virtually impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that is easily distinguishable from the real thing.
Case-in-point: Landover Baptist.
You have to REALLY go over-the-top, pretty far into camp territory, to make an obvious parody of Fundamentalist beliefs. Betty Bowers is the type website for that particular area. (“So close to Jesus, He’s given her his loaves and fishes recipe”)
It would be unfair of me to say that fundies have a sense of humor that doesn’t tickle my funny bone. That would be too broad a generalization.
But there was this one time…
Teenager: Hey Pastor, should I put this food in the refreezer? I mean, refrigerator?
Pastor: Ha ha! Hey, I’ve got a joke. What do you get when you cross a refrigerator and a freezer?
Teenager: I don’t know. What?
Pastor: A refreezer!
Teenager: Oh, I get it! Ha ha!
:rolleyes:
Uh, like ‘redeemer?’ Otherwise, I don’t get it.
No. Like ‘refreezer.’
Don’t hurt yourself trying to get it. There’s far less to it than meets the eye.
YOu mean, something that freezes for the second time.
Oh. Well, that’s stupid.
No, I mean a combination of the words refigerator and freezer. The very word that the teen had just said. And yet, he couldn’t guess the punchline.
Not enough O’s in stoooopid to describe it.
God, I hadn’t even noticed that the kid had said it first. :smack: OK, so I’m an idiot too. Still, this is humor? I guess it’s adequate for vernacular humor, on a level with “Hey, getta load of those tits! Har-de-har-har!”