A Sea Of Red

Has anyone else ever read this website? Scorcho turned me on to it the other day and I've been reading it since. It's hilarious.

I'm seeing old Chevy parts. What's the deal?

It's stuffchristianslike.net. Should've said that from the get go.

That's better.

I just can't believe the guy got a book deal out of that.

I like it.

phoenix wrote:I just can't believe the guy got a book deal out of that.

One word: Zondervan. The guy panhandling in front of Walmart probably got a book deal from them, too. Something like fifteen chapters and 50,000 words in exchange for all the Snickers he could eat.

Christian Audio is giving away the SCL book for free this month:

http://christianaudio.com/free_download.php

It was mildly amusing when it first came out ... but it tends to be a one trick pony. Xianity on Twitter is better IMHO.

Xianity on Twitter used to run the Purgatorio blog -- one of my favorites, even though it's gone.

Guy I know who graduated from PCC (and has recovered from PCC) has a blog called Stuff Fundies LIke that is pretty funny if you know anything about that subculture --> http://stufffundieslike.wordpress.com/ I'm waiting for him to get his book deal.

phoenix wrote:Xianity on Twitter used to run the Purgatorio blog -- one of my favorites, even though it's gone.

Guy I know who graduated from PCC (and has recovered from PCC) has a blog called Stuff Fundies LIke that is pretty funny if you know anything about that subculture --> http://stufffundieslike.wordpress.com/ I'm waiting for him to get his book deal.

Stuff fundies is a really hilarious website...so someone who grew up in a fundamental church, it's shocking how spot on it is about everything.

Funny you should bring up XIANITY because he completely called out Caner today.

He/she is in touch with the Evangelical movement including what happens on the mountain. I am surprised it has taken this long for Xianity to reference the Caner controversy.

And I agree with Phoenix, the Fundies site was funnier to me when it came out. Although I admit I haven't read it in quite some time.

I don't follow xianity on Twitter, but I get plenty of their retweets. It's kind of annoying because it only seems to degrade, mock, or disparage Christians or the church. There are other Christians on Twitter who do pretty much the same thing that get retweeted all the time, and it gets really tiresome. They basically try to find as many ways as possible to use 140 characters to make the church look bad or try to find irony amongst Christians. It's so cutting edge! Way to go, guys, that's really what we need.

ALUmnus wrote:I don't follow xianity on Twitter, but I get plenty of their retweets. It's kind of annoying because it only seems to degrade, mock, or disparage Christians or the church. There are other Christians on Twitter who do pretty much the same thing that get retweeted all the time, and it gets really tiresome. They basically try to find as many ways as possible to use 140 characters to make the church look bad or try to find irony amongst Christians. It's so cutting edge! Way to go, guys, that's really what we need.

Exactly. There is a guy on there names "jesusneedsnewpr". He does this ALL of the time. I don't understand where these people think it is healthy to bash the church like that. Like Paul said, if you say something without using love, it is evil.

flamerbob wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:I don't follow xianity on Twitter, but I get plenty of their retweets. It's kind of annoying because it only seems to degrade, mock, or disparage Christians or the church. There are other Christians on Twitter who do pretty much the same thing that get retweeted all the time, and it gets really tiresome. They basically try to find as many ways as possible to use 140 characters to make the church look bad or try to find irony amongst Christians. It's so cutting edge! Way to go, guys, that's really what we need.

Exactly. There is a guy on there names "jesusneedsnewpr". He does this ALL of the time. I don't understand where these people think it is healthy to bash the church like that. Like Paul said, if you say something without using love, it is evil.

...or something like that.

Something like what

flamerbob wrote:Exactly. There is a guy on there names "jesusneedsnewpr". He does this ALL of the time. I don't understand where these people think it is healthy to bash the church like that. Like Paul said, if you say something without using love, it is evil.

Says the guy who posted an article from MPT ripping a church for a video they did.

SuperJon wrote:

flamerbob wrote:Exactly. There is a guy on there names "jesusneedsnewpr". He does this ALL of the time. I don't understand where these people think it is healthy to bash the church like that. Like Paul said, if you say something without using love, it is evil.

Says the guy who posted an article from MPT ripping a church for a video they did.

Not for the video but they could have used a different weekend to redo a Backstreet Boys song. Not ripping creativity, just the timing.

flamerbob wrote:Something like what

You're completely misquoting Paul. I was being facetious.

from what RTs I've seen of Xianity (which obviously is a filtered selection by what people I follow think is funny), it's more shining a light on certain evangelical stereotypes for the purpose of humor. Not necessarily specific people or the church itself. Maybe all the stuff I don't see is though. Like I remember something about a young preacher not tweeting about how great his wife is for X amount of hours. That's funny and it seems like it's good natured to me.

flamerbob wrote:

SuperJon wrote:

flamerbob wrote:Exactly. There is a guy on there names "jesusneedsnewpr". He does this ALL of the time. I don't understand where these people think it is healthy to bash the church like that. Like Paul said, if you say something without using love, it is evil.

Says the guy who posted an article from MPT ripping a church for a video they did.

Not for the video but they could have used a different weekend to redo a Backstreet Boys song. Not ripping creativity, just the timing.

Yeah, because adding an extra service on Christian Super Bowl Sunday and then creatively marketing it is a bad idea? That's just dumb.

I guess I just think that a better way could have been taken to promote a 4th service Easter Sunday.

i didn't go all the way to the beginning but apparently that guy has run out of stuff fundies like.

i did chuckle at rook though.

LUconn wrote:from what RTs I've seen of Xianity (which obviously is a filtered selection by what people I follow think is funny), it's more shining a light on certain evangelical stereotypes for the purpose of humor. Not necessarily specific people or the church itself. Maybe all the stuff I don't see is though. Like I remember something about a young preacher not tweeting about how great his wife is for X amount of hours. That's funny and it seems like it's good natured to me.

So then the link to the Caner piece was for humor's sake?

Oh, I didn't know they posted that. I got that from one of our esteemed colleagues here. Like I said, I see like one RT of them every week or so.