Please don’t flame me- unless you really feel you need to- but the fact that many visitors can’t tell the difference between real-world Christians and this satire surely tells us more about the visitors than it does about the Christians, doesn’t it?
Of course, astorian. Please forgive my curt reply. And, FisherQueen, I would think that not being able to tell the difference wouldn’t necessarily reflect on the visitors as it would their experience with some Christians.
No, FisherQueen. I’ll say what’s been said again. What it means is that we have, in the real world, met and heard many people who call themselves Christians, espousing ideas not very different from those at Landover Baptist.
Whole churches full of them. Whole denominations full of them.
It’s not the inability to distinguish between real-world Christians and satirical Christians, it’s the inability to distinguish between real-world hypocrites and satirical hypocrites. Real-world Christians do not act anything like what is portrayed in Landover Baptist.
Which is something that I don’t think anyone in this thread has argued against.[sup]*[/sup]
[sub][sup]*[/sup]A good thing.
It took me a while to work out that it was satire.
And to those that say it’s easy to tell the difference; you need to look at http://www.godhatesfags.com - that’s anything but satire, sadly.
(tapping my foot impatiently)
I haven’t heard any apologies to us “secular liberals” yet.
That’s not even Michael Nesmith’s real hat.
The part that clued me to satire was the Superintendent’s name… Butch Strongman. It struck me as odd :).
Lies, all lies lies. Next you will be saying that the Weekly World News is all made up, that Elvis is dead, and that the moon isn’t made of cheese.
Goll durnit! I hate that. I’m reading a thread, thinking “Woo boy, this astorian dude is WAY out of line! And perhaps this Heloise chick will lose her temper because of that. Good golly, I’d better but on the Mod Clogs!”.
And then you people start… apologising.
Bunch of friggin’ nancies. 
This Heloise chick? This Heloise chick? That’s what you know me as, Coldie?
Forget Octdoperfest, I’m not going now. :pouts:
For years, I thought that Bob Larson was an Andy Kaufman-like performance artist. His routine seems like an outrageous lampoon, but apparently he is quite sincere. His current newsletter begins “Since the sad events of September 11, America has been in a state of shock. You need to know that the World Trade Center attack was orchestrated by demons, and those demons have launched an all-out attack on our country. Satan has shoved his fist in our face and dared us to respond.” and ends with:
How do you satirize that?