http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
Please look around. I cannot tell if it is meant to make fun, or its real.
2007-10-09 06:42:53 · 14 answers · asked by Moonlit Hemlock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is Parody/Satire
Chris Harper and Mike Allen's, "Landover Baptist Church" is tickling the soft underbelly of the religious right, and causing quite a stir in religious circles all over the internet. It's become the subject of cyber-gossip, and discussion in the far-reaching corners of the world wide web.
"We're not bitter against anyone," states Chris Harper, Landover Baptist's head writer and Chief Editor, "We have devoted a good portion of our lives to studying Baptists. We know their beliefs, habits, their likes and dislikes. We believe that although Landover Baptist is a satire, it represents an accurate picture of what the Church is becoming." Harper, who after the expulsion went on to receive graduate and post graduate degrees in English from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA., is considered (having been on the inside for many years) to be an expert when it comes to exposing uncomfortable issues, and doctrines within the Fundamentalist Baptist sub-culture.
Today, the Landover Baptist Church Satire encompasses a wide variety of parody work. It has a slew of writers from across the country. Most of them experts in the fundamentalist movement. The material on the website grabs you by the jugular, and doesn't let go. It's an entertaining way of looking at a world run by right wing Fundamentalist Christians. It makes you laugh, but also makes you think. "From our experience," Harper states, "The most effective way of getting people to think, is through 'hard, non-apologetic, biting satire.' It might hurt, but in the end we come out making more sense of ourselves.
2007-10-09 06:59:53 · answer #1 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this web site isn't a shaggy dog tale. you are able to tell shaggy dog tale web pages with the aid of fact they a minimum of attempt to be witty. this is purely the fabricated from somebody this is heavily deranged. the money they might desire to of spent on scientific care they wasted on a working laptop or computing device and an internet site layout software.
2016-10-08 21:52:07 · answer #2 · answered by dickison 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a joke. It's just hard to tell because everything on it is the type of thing you would normally hear from people like that.
2007-10-09 06:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of COURSE it is a joke. It is a spin off of The Onion.
Apostates and blasphemers like Colbert and John Stewart.
Let them burn in hell.
2007-10-09 06:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think it is a joke, at least i think religion is a joke, i am hear to preach fact, not fiction, long live science for truth and understanding
2007-10-09 06:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's satire. Landover Baptist is to religion what The Onion is to journalism.
2007-10-09 06:46:38 · answer #6 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol. Read the article title, "Tampons, Satan's little cotton fingers". Clearly it's satire.
2007-10-09 07:21:09 · answer #7 · answered by gumby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know I only looked at the home page and find it silly
2007-10-09 06:46:12 · answer #8 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian but that was so friggin funny. Oh and really scary.
2007-10-09 06:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by rico459 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always get a laugh out of it
2007-10-09 06:51:36 · answer #10 · answered by Blue girl in a red state 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋