Comments on: Pastor Gave Prophetic Sermon – His Secret? MySpace!

By: JC

JC — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:23:17 +0000

Now I´m afraid to check my sin-mail.

By: donna

donna — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:50:44 +0000

Satire is funny. A description of creepy behavior is creepy.

There’s a difference.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:45:31 +0000

If you’re in any doubt about whether LarkNew is satire, read their FAQ. I’m still giggling some minutes later.

By: jjj

jjj — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:17:44 +0000

The sad part here is that a lot of people don’t pick up on the fact that it’s satire. That says a lot about people’s feelings toward organized religion in general.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:35:51 +0000

Even if this isn’t real the idea that it could be is what truly makes it funny.
Since when is myspace or facebook private. It’s a hard lesson for teenagers to learn, if you want it to be private write it in a diary.

By: Kate Layzer

Kate Layzer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:31:04 +0000

It’s probably only funny if you’ve had some exposure to evangelical culture. John’s description of it as “the Onion for evangelicals” is perfect. It’s evangelicals poking fun at evangelicals–who are only one of many Christian subcultures, by the way.

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Well, LarkNews is mostly insider humor for American evangelicals. It pokes fun at our eccentricities, of which there are many. But it may not be easily understood outside of the evangelical culture.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:38:29 +0000

I don’t get that whole site. Someone please explain it to me.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:34:44 +0000

News Flash: Not everything you read in the Internets is true!

Come on, Alex; we all know that Neatorama isn’t real journalism, just entertainment, but could you try just a little harder to put a tiny bit of journalistic honesty into the stories you post that hint at being true? Did you even bother to check out the originating story and site, or did you just copy & paste from the Locust & Honey blog? That’s sure what it looks like.

Even a little digging would’ve revealed that the story you linked to was satire. But no. Instead we get yet another hyped up headline on Neatorama giving the Christ haters another imagined thing to yell about.

By: Kate Layzer

Kate Layzer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:12:37 +0000

Folks, THIS IS SATIRE!!!!!!!!!! It’s from the hilarious satirical site Lark News, larknews.com. So you can tone down the righteous indignation!

By: Chuichupachichi

Chuichupachichi — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:03:51 +0000

@ Moodindigo
(He actually sounds *proud* of this behaiour, like it’s a competition. Spying on people just so he can humiliate them in public. Yuck.)

Reading “public” postings is not spying.
If he were calling them by name and pointing them out, then describing their sins. That would be public humiliation.

Just in case the story is even true?

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:57:59 +0000

This guy is a total wanker.

What happened to “practice what you preach”?

By: hearsetrax

hearsetrax — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:42:24 +0000

further proof that 99% religious zealots are a bunch of phonies

By: Christophe

Christophe — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:33:16 +0000

Big Father is watching you!

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:32:24 +0000

Before anyone gets too worked up: the source is LarkNews, a parody site. It’s The Onion for evangelicals.

By: Moodindigo

Moodindigo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:12:06 +0000

“Therein lies my advantage”

He actually sounds *proud* of this behaiour, like it’s a competition. Spying on people just so he can humiliate them in public. Yuck.

By: gibson8or

gibson8or — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:18:08 +0000

I always thought hypocrisy was a sin…

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:02:43 +0000

ggrrr… sounds annoying… reminds me also of that guy in oklahoma that knocks on windows of people that pick up hookers… someone in his congregation should let him know that his tie is yellow..

By: alison

alison — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:54:16 +0000

uhhhhh…