On a more serious note, and sadly enough, though this piece may in fact be a satirical jab at people who are overly zealous against something they obviously don't understand, it has its roots in reality. There are plenty of actual, serious groups out there that have these amongst their beliefs. EDIT: @ Scirocco Father Grigori?
I paticularly like how white christians are obviously trustworthy people. Black ones aren't? None christians can't be trustworthy? How can you really trust someone who buys an armour pierecing round to go hunting? lol
I am still giggling about this... politically incorrect though the satire may be, i thought it was well executed and hilarious.
I like the "help save my nephew....my sisters signed him up for soccer" Then he goes on to call all people who play or like football as gays lol, is this site genuine though or a piss take? As I noticed the church is developing JesOS, the first truely christian OS apparently. Looks rather erm crap if you take a look though
A friend of mine was just making that very point: "The Fallout games are notable for giving the player such a wide range of choices that it's actually possible, through a lot of hard work, to complete the games playing as a pacifist. One of the developers said in 2008 that they had a player complete Fallout 3 without killing anything except a single cockroach." ================= Edit: The person quoted above requested that this bit be included: Re the Landover Baptist Church merriment: Considering the good Reverend's eye-crinkling liberties with grammar, spelling and usage, I found this bit salient: "The site was created by Chris Harper, who obtained his Master's Degree in English Literature from George Mason University in 1993 after being expelled from Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell) in 1989 for producing a satirical radio show which Liberty's administration found offensive." -- Modest Wikipedia Volunteer They're something satisfying about a foont with a Master's in English Lit larding his posts with Crackerlish.
The best thing about Landover is that there are so many people who really believe things almost exactly like it that it's sometimes almost impossible to tell that it's a joke
You're joking, right? JesOS is a big joke, it's been "vaporware" for 2000 years. Google is your (all-your-data-belongs-to-us-)friend. As for everyone who didn't read the thread: the website is a prank.
What I most like about threads like these is all the Christianity bashers that unwittingly reveal their own mindlessness by raging about that fake review because they couldn't be arsed to read the thread to keep themselves from being misled. What most people posting in such a thread completely miss is that Christianity is very broad, and as much as "religion attracts weak minded fools" to quote a post here, such threads attract people of weak character who love to bash an entire huge and diverse group of people and part of western society for the excesses of a rather small extremist minority. Sure, that displays a lot of intelligence, right? A God being or not - I've seen a lot of people leading a better life because of their Christian faith and morale resulting from it. Something that cannot quite be said about those loving to bash them, I am afraid. Go look at yourselves in the mirror and do better before judging others you don't really know out of a prejudice fed by your own greed for the dark side of human nature.
Yep, funny ain't it. Not really, no. There really is no broadness to christianity: you belive in the trinity and are christian or you don't and aren't. The percieved broadness comes from all the splinter sects that have broken off 'cos someone has disliked something thats gone on before or has started to happen at the time. Church of England from Catholicism, the Mennonites, etc etc. a) Yeah, religion doesn't necessarily attract weak minded fools. b) Yeah, this kind of thread will attract people (not all of which will be of weak character) who love to bash religion. c) Religion isn't that diverse though. It's a belief in a divine power. Thats it. The diversity, again, comes in when people start interpreting things about this divine power. That's good, me too. I've got a few mates who are Muslims, and while it's not something we talk about a lot, theyre all pretty safe. I will say though, I've known two or three people who were christians of various sects and they were arses: the first to stick the knife in at work and in personal life. They're must be some who are pleasant to be around though. Law of averages. All we are as human beings is judging machines, it's what our brains are meant to do: to put it in crude terms: "Do I kill it, eat it or hump it?" (Hopefully killing it before eating.) That is human nature. Nothing more, nothing less. We've been doing it since we first appeared, and we'll be doing it until we disappear.
