Beowulf Posted October 5, 2007 Posted October 5, 2007 One of my favorite websites is NoBoJo.org, which is run by an alum of Bob Jones University, and features a pretty scathing expose of the place. The site is offline right now (temporarily, I hope), but they've got some great stuff. One of their features is the "Wingnut of the Week", where they link to some one on the fringes of religious radicalism. Recently, they linked to the Society of Christians for the Restoration of Old Testament Morality. I had commented on NoBoJo in my personal blog, and was surprised to find the following comment on the post from the Society... That site is devoted to anti-Christian persecution. It even named us “Wingnut of the Week.†My response was to state that I had visited their website, and that I thought the designation was well-earned. However, I started looking at the site a bit closer, and now I'm not so sure. Some of the belief statements are so terribly outrageous that I'm beginning to wonder if it's not a well-disguised parody site. There is an e-mail link to an alumni of Princeton, so I'm starting to suspect something. Anyone else seen this site?
☆ TexasFreethinker ☆ Posted October 5, 2007 Posted October 5, 2007 Our nation was founded by great, Godly men like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson – men who loved and cherished the King James Bible in its entirety, recognized it for the infallible revelation and literal truth that it is This line alone from the intro to the site tells me it's a spoof. They couldn't have listed three founding fathers who were less religious, and Paine and Jefferson in particular could never be called men who loved and cherished the King James Bible.
Beowulf Posted October 5, 2007 Author Posted October 5, 2007 Yeah, that's one of the lines that made me take a closer look. It's the information in the linked PDF files where the absurdities really jump out at you.
Robbobrob Posted October 5, 2007 Posted October 5, 2007 It is amazing sometimes how difficult it is to spoof a philosophy SO FAR out there in its thinking. But, that Jefferson assertain sounds suspect....but I would not put it past fundie nuts to not know of the Jeffersonian Bible.
Robbobrob Posted October 5, 2007 Posted October 5, 2007 We cannot remain God’s favorite nation for very long until we as a nation scrupulously observe the literal meaning of every word in the Bible Definitely a spoof, because they used such big words like scrupulously and because it is not formatted like a, what was the analogy, oh yeah, a 5 year old using pagermaker 98.
Spoomonkey Posted October 5, 2007 Posted October 5, 2007 I had fun looking through the site, but it is definitely a spoof - a clever one at that. Good find! Spoomonkey
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