transward (imported) wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:08 pm Usually it's obvious, but these sites are right on the border between intentional parody and idiothood. I think these sites are parodies but I'm not sure.
Both Christwire and the Landover Baptist Church are intended as parodies, but both are so close to some of the stranger Evangelical beliefs that there are comments from True Believers on the sites, accepting and extending the stories. Once in a while one of their parodies even breaks free and shows up in the mainstream media as real religious news. The two sites do as well as The Onion in that respect.
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