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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Holy shit. I can't believe I recognize this art.

This shit is ancient, and it was drawn as satire/bait. Nobody is handing out these flyers seriously. This post is rather embarrassing. Satire is dead I guess.

Edit: sources:

Source for text: scroll for text. I don't know where the goat went. This website is a high-effort satire page that hasn't been updated since like 2010. Looks real at first glance but just click around, it's clearly not a real church.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So I followed your link, found the quoted text, and and had a look around the website. I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire. Most of the links are now dead, but the ones that work seem to lead to serious sources. If it is satire, it is very high effort.

Anyway, I'm going to share with a friend who has more personal experience with this kind of thing and get their perspective.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So quick update: my friend who was homeschooled in a religious household but is now atheist thinks it is not satire. My take is that if this is satire, it's going over a lot of people's heads.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Well, there's this...

...but honestly, I could see somebody sufficiently naive not recognizing that for what it is.

This one, however, is a bit less covert:

And then you recall reading this in the intro on the first page, and a pattern starts to develop:

My OBJECTIVE is JUST 4 KIDZ! The "Z" is for "ZEALOUSNESS," 'cause Jesus wants us to be hot for Him, not lukewarm.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is an image to a shop page:

This link is broken. Hmm.... If this were a real organization that needed money, wouldn't they either shut this site down entirely or fix their shop page?

Notice the LOL acronym. Now visit this page:

kids artwork

Here are some of my favorites (notice most of these children are pretty talented and drawing with computer programs in 2010):

Edit: I should have grabbed the image with "shotacat" lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's satire, but Poe's Law is STRONG with this one! There are plenty of people who unironically believe more ridiculous things than what's on that site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's very well written satire. As someone who's previously been part of evangelical house churches I can tell it's been written by someone who was part of church life for years.

It's so very well done I wasn't sure myself of it was real or not. Believe it or not I've known many genuine Christians who could crank out earnest content that was this cheesy and insane.

The clincher for me if that it neither asks for money nor gives an address. => Satire

(On the kids ministry page, the music track listings are particular genius)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t know where the goat went.

It tries to serve you .swf (Shockwave Flash) versions unless your browser doesn't support embedding, in which case it'll serve you .gifs instead. I guess that, since modern browsers do support embedding in general but not Flash, that's why they don't display either version.

Here are some of the .gif alternatives:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only one I don't get is the Hebrew kangaroo. I guess the artist couldn't figure out what fauna was appropriate so they went for a rhyme instead? IMO, there's lots to choose from, but a "rabbi rabbit" would have also been pretty clever.

Edit: as a work of satire, I guess all four are equally and deliberately screwed up, now that I think about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Satire is dead I guess.

Yes. We're at this point now. It's Poe's law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

After clicking through the site, and seeing a list of church members, I'm really not sure it's satire. If it is, it's keeping a very very straight face.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Man this brings me back, haven't seen this since the 2000s. You can find the goat as a printable figure on the Kidz crafts link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah I remember this from back in the day. Indignant atheist teenage me was pretty incensed at first, but the page about plans to build a massive cross-shaped satellite that transmits bible verses was a bit of a giveaway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

This site may be satire, but it's also linking to the southern baptist's on the off chance you want to "find christ". So, they're definitely Christians. if it is satire, then it's triggering poe's law.