DaMentalFunism

Fruitcake connoisseurs will enjoy this fanfic version of the awful Left Behind Series at Rapture Ready: a collaborative work of fiction (or is it??) called "Are they ready for this?", taking the form of a messageboard thread, and detailing the event of the Rapture, its aftermath on Earth, and then the event of the Rapture again. Over and over.

Lovers of fine literature, sadly, will not enjoy it so much.

Not only is it nigh-on unreadable due to the plethora of time-jumps back to the Rapture event; it also suffers a terrible helping of fanfic's worst offense: the smarmy oracular self-insertion!

Our advisors at fstdt use the word "fap" a lot in their commentary on this work.

So I've not posted anything here for a while. It's because I've been distracted by a website called Fundies Say the Darnedest Things which I discovered has a similar theme to that which I had planned for this blog. The participants of that website sift through the boards and blogs of the Internet's thick lunatic fringe and bring back their spoils so that others can enjoy the lulz.

At the moment there seems to be a sort of siblinghood developing between FSTDT and Rapture Ready, which is a message board for that wedge of Christendom who hate pretty much everything and are impatiently anticipating being beamed away by God. The discourse gets a bit Kool-Aid-ish at times.

It's a siblinghood of the "Muuu-uuuuum he stole my stuff" variety.

More soon, I promise.

The Kangaroo article on Conservapedia "The Trustworthy Encyclopedia" (for the uninitiated it's a pro-US conservative "Christian" version of Wikipedia for homeschool families) receives a lot of attention from what I suppose American Conservatives would call the “Liberal Media” due to its entertaining statements about kangaroos migrating from the Middle East to Australia after the Great Flood (Perhaps you remember colouring-in a picture of a big wooden boat one morning in Sunday School? With two giraffes sticking out the top and a smiling bearded man watching benignly as the rest of humanity perishes in torrential floodwater? If so, then you’ll understand that all land animals currently in existence are descended from the survivors of that mass extinction event!). It is worth checking on from time to time as it … er… evolves: Recently it has become something of a frontier in the Culture War, blossoming in a delightfully organic way with statements like “A majority of biologists regard evolution as the most likely explanation for the origin of species including the kangaroo, but this is to be expected, given their worldviews.”

The Wikia software used to create online scratchpads like Wikipedia and Conservapedia features a History tab on each page which allows us to watch how the pages grew and developed. Sadly the Kangaroo page only has a couple of recent entries in its history: the earlier stuff seems to have been lost to posterity. The talk page has fared better, so we can watch this latest battle in the ongoing American Civil War unfold.

There will be more from Conservapedia later, I'm sure.

Let me make it clear from the outset that I am Christian, and am convinced that the Bible is the word of God and intended by Him as a document that is foundational to human thought and activity. I am, however, equally convinced that many of my fellow Christians are thoroughly misguided in their efforts to apply the Bible as a first-and-last reference for everything in Creation, be it philosophy, biology, mathematics or meteorology. The results of their efforts are sometimes tragic, sometimes infuriating, often offensive, and very frequently highly amusing.

A lot of this behaviour has inherited the tag “fundamentalism”, though this only really applies to a specific brand of Biblical warping. However, the term is popularly used to cover a wide range of religious fruitcakery.

Since the early days of the Web zealots of all persuasions have been broadcasting their various messages to our browsers hoping to win us to their ways of thinking. This blog is intended to become an index to the entertainment they provide. Welcome to the amusing and confusing world of DaMentalFunism.