Comments on: Jesus Junk

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:19:46 +0000

The Objectice site is parody, but some of the others are unfortunately not — especially the av1611.org site and it’s associated foolishness. The sad thing is, parodists can link to actual “Christian” sites to make people think they are legitimate, and it’s hard to tell a parody from a real site — read anything by Peter Ruckman, for example.

By: Scott McClare

Scott McClare — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:33:20 +0000

Parody or not, that computer-generated, eyes-rolling, ugly Baby Jesus Flash animation whispering “Why?” in a robotic voice is seriously freakin’ disturbing.

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:01:10 +0000

I was hoping you’d pop by Jerri, if anyone knows the fundamentalist movement it’s you.:^)

This isn’t just parody.

Definition: [n] humorous or satirical mimicry
[n] a composition that imitates somebody’s style in a humorous way
[v] make a parody of; “The students spoofed the teachers”
[v] make a spoof of; make fun of

Some of the links are real, as in people that believe what they are saying. ie: KJVOnly

Like I said, it’s like someone has ‘collected’ them.
What’s pathetic is this site has been around for quite awhile and keeps resurfacing and getting people all worked up. We are gullible.
I not prepared to call it a parody, but I’m not sure what to call it.

By: Jeri Massi

Jeri Massi — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 03:31:11 +0000

Looks like Baby Jesus, Objective, and Landover Baptist are all run by the same minds. Clever parody that runs from almost neutral to sheer farce. Mockery of Christendom is nothing new. GLIMPSES had an article one week that showed facsimile of graffiti from Rome depicting a crucified jackass and a figure of a praying man, with the comment scrawled underneath that this was a Christian praying to his God.

I wish we were mocked for prayer and faith instead of some of the genuine silliness and departure from a sober and comprehenive knowledge of Scripture that we Evangelicals have been guilty of.

Jeri

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:40:27 +0000

Did you see the emails?
Some people are royally steamed - the emails date the last two days.
http://www.htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=objectiveministries&i=2&a=view

Had me going too.
I wonder if some of the things this Ojective page links to are (were) real - like the earlier internet sites ie: Santamas. Hopefully tech bloggers can do some digging.

The patent and the pr0n look real too, if he was sending out pay me letters for sub-domains there wasn’t much fuss.

**BoingBoing reader Bryan says, “I was intrigued (and disturbed) by the Baby Jesus. Wondering what type of strange religious group created this, I WHOISed the site. Interestingly, it is registered to a company called “IdeaFlood, Inc.,” which is based, apparently, in Nevada. So, I went to the Nevada Department of State website, and found out that one “Brian Shuster” is the registered agent for the corporation. A quick google search of his name, and voila!, pr0n and the Creepy Baby Jesus have quite a bit in common. Worse, the guy has a patent on pop-up ads!”**

By: Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:03:08 +0000

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/07/the_bibleman_cometh.html

The “official” word is that it is a parody. They had me going!

By: Richard Hall

Richard Hall — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:36:12 +0000

Too right. For ages I was convinced that Jack Chick was a parody…

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:20:13 +0000

Thanks Susan…
hard to tell these days.:^)

By: Mark Byron

Mark Byron — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:19:31 +0000

I think that Richard’s safe in Tony Blair’s UK, as long as Richard goes easy on the anti-Iraq rhetoric

By: susan b.

susan b. — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:13:54 +0000

Yeah, it’s definitely a parody site. Pretty over the top, plus the “Baby Jesus Anti-Fornication Thong” makes it pretty clear the whole thing is an intentional joke. (As opposed to an unintentional one.)