Fake news that’s good for the soul

Satire

At the Babylon Bee, the news is always fake but the stories are often true. The satire site, which began in early March, features witty headlines that poke fun at the foibles of churchgoers. The site is the brainchild of Adam Ford, 32, a Detroit dad who quit his day job a year and a half ago to produce Web content.

Discussion

Bert Perry

Wed, 04/13/16 12:50 pm

Really like the Bee. It

Really like the Bee. It shows us ourselves, but without the “acid” of “Stuff Fundies Like”. (pray for the guy who headed SFL, BTW; Jim posted some things that indicate he’s really a hurting guy. No need to be disagreeable as we do in points disagree)

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

Jim

Wed, 04/13/16 6:07 pm

Amazed that:

Seemingly sprung out of nowhere and seems to be everywhere (observations from FB)
High “quality” (if there is such a thing) satire
That a guy can make a living at it

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Ron Bean

Wed, 04/13/16 6:59 pm

Really Good Satire

This is really good satire as evidenced by the fact that often times, especially when it’s posted on Facebook, people have to be told that it’s satire.

"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan

Jim

Wed, 04/13/16 8:38 pm

This one (all over FB yesterday & today)

http://babylonbee.com/news/violence-breaks-t4g-rival-theology-gangs-cla…

Violence Breaks Out At T4G As Rival Theology Gangs Clash

For the third time in as many gatherings, the Together for the Gospel Conference was marred by an outbreak of turbulence as tensions rose over differing hermeneutic approaches to Scripture. “The dispensationalists feel like they’ve been given short shrift again,” said Dr. John Dawsen, as a Crossway pen whizzed by his ear. “Combine the grammatical-historical and redemptive-historical feud and inter-complementarian squabbles, and you have a recipe for contention.”
Clad in a Straight Outta Westminster t-shirt and sporting a teardrop tattoo by his left eye, Charles Lyman said, “It’s not my fault they can’t read their Bibles. Next time they won’t bring an eschatology chart to a sword fight.”

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Bert Perry

Thu, 04/14/16 8:30 am

I like this one

The guy next door to me is the son of two Amish people, so I really got a kick out of this one. Excerpt:

TUSCON, AZ—Housewife and Mary Kay representative Ruth Tanner, 52, is still convinced that the piles of Amish romance novels hidden under her bed are absolutely not inappropriate for her consumption and definitely don’t constitute an unhealthy obsession with romance.

And while we’re at it, might as well.

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TylerR

Thu, 04/14/16 12:53 pm

Weird Al

I like the sign on the quilt stand: “Our Prices Art Insane!”

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.