Real or Fake forum???

[cooljjay]

Okay, I was doing some late night search and somehow stumbled across this forum below.....as they say curiosity killed the cat.....so I started reading a few post, and OMG I had no idea people thought this way in this day and age....the more and more I scan through, I began thinking....this can't be real......some guy said he keeps he's kid locked in the basement with a bible and toss him down food scraps....another guy was bragging about his kid beating up a homosexual kid.....I gotta get some real peoples perspective on this site.....

Focus on Family - Christian Parenting - The Landover Baptist Church Forum

Just a sort of disclaimer on my part, I have nothing to do with this site....I believe nothing they say or believe in.....

[Ara T.]

Fake. Well, satire.

[cmac2012]

Hard to say. The guy Osborne looks pretty strange. There are some creeps out and about.

Yahoo answers says there is a fake site but it's .org whereas the .net site is real:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110211034950AA3OQ5V

Who runs the landover baptist forum/site?

These sites have been passed around the internet due to their insane and ridiculous content. It's been clearly established that the whole thing is a parody of baptists/fundamentalist christianity. However, they seem to be putting alot of effort into this parody - writing lots of content, making numerous forum posts, heavily researching scripture, etc. What group is running this, and are they making money off of it? I assume chris harper, but who else?

While it is funny and entertaining, it seems like alot of work for a joke.

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Chris Harper runs the .org site, which is a parody of the real .net (forums) site. That's why people get confused on which is a parody and which is not. On the forums, you will find people with 10,000, even 50,000 posts(!) who know the Bible in and out. The forum is extremely active and the moderators are very strict to anyone who tries to make fun of Christianity and whatnot. The forum is the real deal, but I have no idea who runs it. Could be Pastor Ezekiel or Rev. Jim Osborne or Levi Jones or someone.

Source(s):

http://www.wikipedia.com
http://www.landoverbaptist.net

[Can't Know]

All you have to do is read about some of the sects in the world (not just those that claim some tie to Christianity) and you know that people will believe all kinds of ridiculous nonsense.

How about the islamic parents who kill their children because they bring "shame" on the family? Or the westboro whackos who protest military funerals?

Since time began people have been doing all manner of horrific, disgusting things that they have tried to justify through religion. Need another example? Look at the murdering fool on trial right now for mowing down his brothers and sisters in the armed forces.

That they may be willing to talk about it publicly with other "like-minded" fools tends only to reveal the depth of the fool, perhaps.

[spdrun]

Landover Baptist Church is fake.
Westboro Baptist Church is (unfortunately) an actual bunch of inbred mouthbreathers.

[cooljjay]

Originally Posted by Can't Know

All you have to do is read about some of the sects in the world (not just those that claim some tie to Christianity) and you know that people will believe all kinds of ridiculous nonsense.

How about the islamic parents who kill their children because they bring "shame" on the family? Or the westboro whackos who protest military funerals?

Since time began people have been doing all manner of horrific, disgusting things that they have tried to justify through religion. Need another example? Look at the murdering fool on trial right now for mowing down his brothers and sisters in the armed forces.

That they may be willing to talk about it publicly with other "like-minded" fools tends only to reveal the depth of the fool, perhaps.

Very nicely put!

I have meet some real wackos and sickos in my short life here.....that is why I had a hard time deciding if this was real or fake....

I have came up with the conclusion, that yes some of this might be exacerbated a little bit.....but the question remains, if this is not on these peoples minds....then how could them come up with this stuff....

[thorsen]

Fake.
Landover Baptist Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[cmac2012]

Somebody is putting a lot of time into that. The posts were too weird to be real. I mean there are people like that out there, but these read too much like caricatures.

[Pooka]

I once traveled a lot. I met a lot of people who held different value systems and thought differently from myself.

But I never met anyone as far out as some of the folks right here in the US.

There is a large group of people that think the Queen of England is a direct relation to Jesus the Christ and always has been. If you start to run through the history of the English Kings they start to rant that what you are saying is impossible.

Another group is out there that thinks all the wisdom in the world was given by visitors from another planet to a Plumber in Chicago in 1955, and that when you die you go to a large University somewhere for 1,000 years. And that is their description of Heaven. It sounds more like Hell to me.

But the strangest of all is the Church of the Sub-Genius because they admit they are a fake church with a totally wacko set of doctrine. In 1983 they published 'The Book of the Sub-Genius' by their High Nabob, Ivan Stang, (Stang was actually a cameraman for a local TV station for a time) in which Pope Stang made a series of predictions that sounded loony. I think the time line was around fifteen years out because after that the people from planet X would come, in 1996, and take all the faithful with them.

After fifteen years 50% of the predictions had come true. Some of these were very specific as to day and place, and this makes Stang the most accurate predictor of the future ever. (And as weird as it sounds... That is true.)

After 1996 came and went a revolt of sorts took place in the Church in which Stang was called a bunch of very bad names. He consulted 'the texts' and discovered that he had been reading them upside down! X day would not be until 9661, so there is still plenty of time to get ready.

So..... If enough folks have to time to pump out the content then anything is possible.