So it appears that John was one step ahead of the Washington Post in his post the other day. This article is from Saturday's edition talking about the haunted house put on by Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
"Paul Guede, 17, a British exchange student living with Dickens, said Scaremare was worth the two-hour drive, four-hour wait and $7 admission. "It gets its point across. It tells you what hell is like." Yeah, hell is spending four hours waiting and forty five minutes walking through a house populated by people trying to scare others into believing that homosexuality and abortion will kill you, and then twenty minutes of proselytizing.
Looking back, we really should have gone through it drunk, or wearing rainbow shirts while trying to antagonize the crazy Christian fundamentalists.
Posted by Mike at October 30, 2004 12:45 AMI throroughly enjoyed reading about how the honorable reverand made almost $200,000 selling his "Hell House" How-to kits... including tips on what cuts of meat best depict an aborted fetus.
Some other highlights:
"Organizers of the houses contend that they are simply showing reality -- which can be shocking, they say. "
"So here's the objective truth about hell, and there is a very simple answer to not going there, and that would be faith in Christ."
Yes, nothing screams 'objective truth' like a bunch of fundamentalists in a puppet show.
Not that I really believe in the possiblity of anything being purely objective...
Posted by: Meg at October 30, 2004 09:06 AM