Truth or parody?

[godfry n. glad]

A coworker forwarded this to me, knowing my proclivities:

Creation Science Fair (http://objectiveministries.org/creation/sciencefair.html)

It's just one page of a site known as Objective: Ministries, which, amongst other things, has a page dedicated to organizing a "Landover Baptist Shutdown".

I honestly cannot tell whether this is an actual christian page, or a parody. I swear that the photo of "Jim Carlson", who maintains the Landover Shutdown page, looks like one of the regulars on Onion...Y'know, one of their "on the street" news commentators?:wink:

Then I read this:
Any message you read claiming to be from Jim Carlson or any other OBJECTIVE: Ministries member that contains vulgarities, sexual innuendo, bad poetry, or other un-Christian sentiments is to be considered a FRAUD and ignored.

Bad poetry? An "un-Christian sentiment". Really? :giggle:

And here I thought they were part and parcel of the bad poetry movement....:chin:

The more I read, the more I suspected that somebody at either the Onion or Landover Baptist has way too much time on their hands.

Anyway, real or not, it's fodder for shits and giggles, particularly the "science" projects at the Creation Science Fair.

[ChuckF]

Parody. Been around for a while. Objective is also the home of Lambuel (http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/).

[Ermintrude]

Landover Baptist is parody. I subscribe to it but I must admit that when I first saw it, I assumed it was genuine; there are far more extreme genuine religious nuts on the Web. I must admit that it 'informs' my feelings about America in the same way that even though they may know different consciously, Americans often subconsciously imagine English as living in thatched cottages and stopping everything for 4pm tea (Earl Grey of course) or men strolling with a furled umbrella under their black bowler (Derby) hat with the Times shoved up their armpit, and the Irish as earthy philosophers with an eye on the unseen world to be shar bigurra Jasus Mairy and Juseph wouldn't ye know Seamus instead of the same garrulous old drunks you could find sounding forth and cadging in any bar anywhere.

[Brimshack]

Both Landover and "objective" are just as real as Jesus!!!

[ChuckF]

Landover Baptist is parody. I subscribe to it but I must admit that when I first saw it, I assumed it was genuine; there are far more extreme genuine religious nuts on the Web. I must admit that it 'informs' my feelings about America in the same way that even though they may know different consciously, Americans often subconsciously imagine English as living in thatched cottages and stopping everything for 4pm tea (Earl Grey of course) or men strolling with a furled umbrella under their black bowler (Derby) hat with the Times shoved up their armpit, and the Irish as earthy philosophers with an eye on the unseen world to be shar bigurra Jasus Mairy and Juseph wouldn't ye know Seamus instead of the same garrulous old drunks you could find sounding forth and cadging in any bar anywhere.
:giggle:

Faith and begorrah! Where do you come up with these things?

[Kevlar]

It's a shame when reality is more messed up than the parody.

[godfry n. glad]

Damn...I want me a "Free Kent!" teeshirt.

[Caligulette]

While it is parody, it links to several "real" creation science and other such things sites such as this:
Manipogo- beware of scary picture if you scroll down. (http://www.tccsa.tc/adventure/manipogo.html)

Which links through to this:
Obviously proof (so to speak) reading is not big in Creationist circles. (http://www.ecreationscience.com/)

[lisarea]

Poe's Law!

I do wonder why anyone bothers with parody, though.

[godfry n. glad]

I have learned.

Poe's Law....yes, I can understand that. It was only because of that "bad poetry" and the Maximal Rodentia Packing that caused me to pause and....

:thinkup:

[The Lone Ranger]

The "author's name" is a big clue:

http://objectiveministries.org/members/paley.jpg
Dr. Richard Paley

Cheers,

Michael

[Ymir's blood]

Manipogo- beware of scary picture if you scroll down. (http://www.tccsa.tc/adventure/manipogo.html)
...Where is scary picture?!!1
:shakeskull:

[Caligulette]

Manipogo- beware of scary picture if you scroll down. (http://www.tccsa.tc/adventure/manipogo.html)
...Where is scary picture?!!1
:shakeskull:

It's the scary rendition of the creature being seeked. I was scared, anyway. WHY would you go looking for something with teeth that big?

[godfry n. glad]

Manipogo- beware of scary picture if you scroll down. (http://www.tccsa.tc/adventure/manipogo.html)
...Where is scary picture?!!1
:shakeskull:

It's the scary rendition of the creature being seeked. I was scared, anyway. WHY would you go looking for something with teeth that big?

You're a dentist?

[Ymir's blood]

Manipogo- beware of scary picture if you scroll down. (http://www.tccsa.tc/adventure/manipogo.html)
...Where is scary picture?!!1
:shakeskull:

It's the scary rendition of the creature being seeked. I was scared, anyway. WHY would you go looking for something with teeth that big?To poke it with a stick, obviously.

:shakestick::unzilla: