I was just about to hit “publish” on a quick post decrying this video as the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, when I realise that it’s actually a parody.
I’ve fallen afoul of Poe’s Law!
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.
Really, I should’ve twigged with the line about puppy sex.
The Christian response to the atheist bus campaign is here! Not really, of course: this image was actually generated by me using this webpage and very little inspiration. In reality, nobody would bother with coming up with such a pointless, tit-for-tat response to some fairly benign bus adverts. Would they?
The plans of the British Humanist Association to buy advertisements on the side of buses with the text, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life,” has caused an irony bypass from Stephen Green, the head of evangelical organisation Christian Voice, who led the ridiculous protests against Jerry Springer: The Opera a few years ago:
Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large.
I should be surprised if a quasi-religious advertising campaign like this did not attract graffiti.
People don’t like being preached at. Sometimes it does them good, but they still don’t like it.
What an idiot.
Has the respected science publication New Scientist really used the headline ‘The Cod Delusion’ in a story about overfishing? Yes. Yes it has.
More impressively, one commenter has even managed to find it blasphemous. Somebody is either a member of a fish-based religion of which I was previously unaware, or has decided to take on the Sisyphean mission of attempting to take offense at any oblique reference to Richard Dawkins that is made on the Internet, in any context, for the rest of time. Good luck to that man.
The comics of Jack Chick now come in embeddable form, so making it even easier to inform people on the Internet that they are going to be burned in hell for all eternity. Sins worthy of such damnation seem to include telling dirty jokes, disobeying your parents and, most archaically of all, whoremongering. The idea is to embed the tracts on sites like Facebook, MySpace, or basically anywhere else where it’s possible to both embed Flash and annoy multiple people very easily.
If you’re new to the unique work of Jack Chick, I recommend going to this page and looking at the story Lisa. It’s been removed from the Jack Chick official record, possibly because of its incredibly sensitive treatment of child abuse, but (luckily) nothing is ever really deleted on the Internet.
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