On 4/13/2011 7:26 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> I literally can't decide whether this is serious or not.
>>
>> I'm just gobsmacked.
>
> Ditto.
>
>> Be afraid be very, very afraid that there are people in the educated
>> world that can ask those types of questions and those that will answer
>> them.
>
> I honestly can't decide whether this is deadpan spoof or perfectly serious.
>
> (Isn't there a law of the Internet about this effect?)
Its called a Poe: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of 
humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that 
SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

A corollary to this is one, I am not sure its been named, which states 
that no such parody you can make will ever be unique, since there is 
bound to already be some Fundamentalist, some place, making the same 
exact same argument/statement on an existing website.

Ironically there is also a theological poe's law, which states, 
basically, that different bits of stupidity in the Bible will resonate 
with different people, at different times. My wording, not their's. lol

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