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$\"Gravatar\"$ Poe's Law? This must be satire? Right?
Blair T | 08.22.08 - 7:57 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I'm fairly certain this is satire.
If not the commentators are complete idiots.
Prem | Homepage | 08.22.08 - 9:22 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Yeah; I'm going to have to add to the 'Poe's Law' chorus on this one. This satire is almost as well done as Expelled.
Chapman | 08.22.08 - 9:28 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ If they're being ironic, they've very good at it. So kudos.

And I don't believe they're serious, because no one can be that stupid - that Lionsgate stuff? Hilarious.
Andraste | Homepage | 08.23.08 - 11:41 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I have to be honest - if it is satire, it doesn't suit my taste by being dreadfully ignorant. It's more ignorant than the Christians they're parodying, in many cases. I understand the role of clowns (watch Edward Current?) but I don't understand why people illustrate stupidity by acting as if they really believe something most (maybe none!) of them don't.

If you have a 2D worldview of what 'Christians believe', why not make it as a cartoon, to make that relationship artistically evident? Then you can have God perform miracles to prove your point.
James P | Homepage | 08.23.08 - 1:39 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Poe, without a doubt.

Check the website they have, they're definitely doing the thinly veiled satire thing. http://www.theraptureright.com/ . The music they have is the dead giveaway.
Russ | 08.23.08 - 2:09 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ This is satire but unfortunately not that far removed from what fundamentalist Christians actually feel!
frank | 08.25.08 - 4:04 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ From the website:
\"We are God's Favorite Christians. We were born without sin. We are here to do His work. We are the second coming.\"

Now - that's 'not far' from what 'they believe', but it's not the same thing as what they believe, now is it? Mis-representing Christians in an attempt to belittle their Faith is a bad idea. You'd be better off attacking the faith, not the 'symptoms'.
James P | Homepage | 08.25.08 - 11:20 am | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I think this is EXACTLY what we all should be doing to Christians. You can't talk reason with them, they hate facts and avoid scientific discoveries that lay waste to their bible stories.

The only thing we can do is make fun of them and use comedy and satire to destroy them from within.

james P, you are wrong, belittling their faith is not a bad idea, it's the perfect idea. Fuck their ignorance, they don't deserve to be respected.

I love The Rapture Right!!

Comedy perfection!
deborah b | 08.25.08 - 5:36 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ I'm saying that it's worse ignorance to pretend they believe something more ridiculous than they actually do. No Christian professes to be 'the Second Coming' except ... the Nuts who really do think they are. Compare it to the \"Sunday Heroes: Last Supper\", and you tell me: which is funnier? Which attacks the Faith, and which attacks the believers?

I agree - I like the prank aspect of it, putting false propaganda out there has its charms - but this is most likely to target Christians in a way they won't understand, and while it might make their parrot-like arguments ridiculously easy to refute, it won't make them go away.
James P | Homepage | 08.26.08 - 4:31 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ They will never \"go away\" not in our lifetime anyway.

I think this kind of comedy helps us deal with the frustration that most of us Atheists carry around all day, when we see these people on the streets and on television.

We can't solve the problem by trying to reason with them. But we can make them see how totally insane they are, through satire and comedy.

If anything The Rapture Right gives us a nice laugh and a breather, so we can regain our energy to keep fighting.

Come on, \"lions kill more people each year than cougars and jaguars combined\"...That is hilarious!
deborah b | 08.27.08 - 7:44 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ The rapture Right made another \"Boycott Bill Maher\" video.

It is fucking hilarious!

These guys are the best free advertising.

www.youtube.com/user/theraptureright
deborah b | 08.29.08 - 12:49 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ If you think this is satire, you don't know fundamentalist, witch-burning, Christians. These two yahoos are typical of what my generation called, \"Jesus freaks.\" They actually believe what they are saying, totally oblivious of how ignorant they are.
Dale Headley | 10.03.08 - 1:37 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ Check out their website. They are not kidding. These morons are terrifyingly real.
Levi Heminger | 10.03.08 - 8:15 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ its satire watch thier last bill mahr boycott video and also look at some of their comments
bobn | 04.10.09 - 3:56 pm | #

$\"Gravatar\"$ FOR PRETRIB RAPTURE REPEATERS

Congratulations! You are now fulfilling the Bible which says \"Come now, and let us repeat together.\"
Be sure to repeat what Walvoord, Lindsey, LaHaye, Ice etc. repeat what their own teachers repeat what their own teachers repeat etc. etc. etc.!
Repeat that Christ's return is imminent because we're told to \"watch\" (Matt. 24, 25) for it. So is the \"day of God\" (II Pet. 3:12) - which you admit is at least 1000 years ahead - also imminent because we're told to be \"looking for\" it?
Also repeat the pretrib myths about the \"Jewish wedding stages\" and \"Jewish feasts\" (where's your \"church/Israel dichotomy\" now?) even though Christ and Paul knew nothing about a \"pretrib stage\" and neither did any official theological creed or organized church before 1830!
You should read \"Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty\" on the \"Powered by Christ Ministries\" site to find out why you shouldn't repeat everything your pretrib teachers repeat.
Do I have to repeat this?

(just saw this anti-Religious Right
bit on the web - Edna)
Edna | 04.15.09 - 12:42 am | #

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