Now I certainly don’t mean this as a slur against all Christians everywhere.
But it does seem like a lot of Christians, especially the more fundamentalist ones, couldn’t design a web page if even if God commanded them to. They use multicolred text. Busy background. scrolling text. Animated GIFs. and, heaven forbid, the blink tag.
Why? Is this limited to a particular sect? Is is written somewhere in the New Testament that all design elements must be bad? I want to know!
It might be helpful if you could provide some links to these offending sites.
There also seem to be a lot of non-fundamentalist Christians who can’t design a webpage. I think it’s a cross-cultural phenomenon.
Now that you mention it most faith based websites are pretty mediocre. Xtian-Muslim-Jewish-Wiccan-Satanist-Bhuddist-Hindu sites are all pretty limp stylistically.
I would offer a WAG that it’s probably because they mainly get designed by non-professional “volunteers”.
It’s because all the skilled web designers are long-haired drug-dopin’ beer-drinkin’ chain-smokin’ Satanic-rock-listenin’ sex-boinkin’ heathens, so the good Christian/Jewish/Islamic/whatever folks who need the web site don’t solicit their services. 
This site almost never fails to slow my computer down.
I’ve noticed the same thing too. I’ll leave it at “notice,” though, because I don’t have any cites, and I don’t want to rish classifying all fundamentalist Christians as bad Web designers.
I’ll offer two thoughts. Sorry, Opal.
There’s a disproportionately large amount of Christian popular music that demonstrates bad musicianship, at least compared to secular popular music. When I’ve asked born-again Christians why religous rock is so unlistenable, they usually respond with “it’s the message that matters, not the music.” Why bother to try, when all your target market wants is the equivalent of “he’s standing by my side” repeated over and over again. I think the same attitude applies with Web design; who cares about cheesy stock graphics, the generic “M-A-I-L orbiting around the E” animated GIF, the forced MIDI and the cut n’ paste Javascript, the multitide of pseudo-awards filling the bottom of every page, when you come to share in His glory.
Dig a bit deeper into those sites, and learn about who is designing them. Odds are, it’ll be the Jean Teasdale-type, someone who probably thinks all those animated graphics and blinking text is actually pretty cool. They have their apartment filled with Beanie Babies, “Hang in There” type posters, country-style furniture and cow kitsch, and their sense of “good taste” is different than someone who is more hip and urbane.
rish = risk. Poop.