This is my first time to start a thread in the Pit, so bear with me. I thought about where this should go. IMHO seemed the logical choice, but I figured it might get a little heated so I started it here.
Every day I pass this place called “The Association for Lost Children” or something like that. At first glance, it seems to be a resource for parents whose children are missing. I do believe that is what it is, but they have one of those changeable letter signs out front with varying messages. I have seen such signs as “Pokemon (sp?) is from Satan!”, “Being gay is a sin. Sinners burn in Hell!”, and something about the Easter Bunny being evil.
Where do these people get off? Yeah, yeah, free speech and all. But damn, I find this shit offensive. I can’t even remember half of the stuff, it’s so laughable. It’s all just super-heated crap. And how can they even believe it? The Easter Bunny is evil? Give me a break!
I have no idea what religion these people are, but it scares me to think that some normal couple who have lost their child would get involved with these people at such a vulnerable time in their lives.
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Hee hee… loved the Landover Baptist site. It’s obviously a joke, but a highly entertaining one. I like the banner add on their home page: “Jesus Says: Vote for Bush!” And according to Betty Bowers, Christian advice columnist, God’s farts smell like potpourri. Glory be!
THIS website, however, is not. Read it at your own risk. At your own risk of falling out of your chair laughing at these poor, ignorant fools. They make Jack Chick look rational. According to them, not only is Pokemon evil, but so is Harry Potter, Dungeons and Dragons and Teletubbies. They wrote a LONG article about how they believe the UN* is using Teletubbies to indoctrinate children into following pagan gods. (Did you know the Tubs’ antennae were derived from pagan symbology? Scroll halfway down for an illustrated dissection of Tubby symbology. You WILL laugh. They even repeat Falwell’s lying assertion that one of the Tubbies is gay.)
*They don’t like the UN or President Clinton very much, either.
Another non-satirical website (in the same vein as Landover Baptist but unintentionally funny) is Paw Creek Ministries- if you follow the link you’ll see that they expose the evil that is Pokemon. They also show Harry Potter to be the hell-bent, drug-pushing, antichrist that he is.
I guess you have to crank the hyperbole up a notch to compete with football on Sundays.
Hmm- I hadn’t seen Jab1’s post before I typed mine. There’s got to be a connection between the two groups as I can’t imagine two separate ministries coming up with these farfetched theories independent of each other. And they cover all the same topics.