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Greetings from Amsterdam

“I’d write more, but I’m hungry and the fetus I’m having for lunch is nearly thawed.”
Scrumptulescent!

Is he not concerned that the scarlet A might actually end up like the pink triangle that homosexuals so successfully adopted from their Nazi persecutors? I know he didn’t come up with the idea but I’m sorely tempted to get a scarlet A just to annoy him even though I don’t think that many people will understand what it symbolises.

As to the symbolism of the scarlet A I much prefer the sunburst image from the Brights organisation…even if it does look like a bit like a furniture polish advert.

aren’t paradies supposed to be funny?

They can be funny if you’re not the one being mocked (unless, of course, said person has zero sense of humor). Sometimes they’re supposed to seem real and incite a fight. Then it’s only funny to the writer.

No, a real parody should be funny even to the one being mocked. Mocking does not necessarily equal parody.

Parody or not it serves the same ultimate purpose, it will cause some to rally to a cause, that is those sad individuals with such extreme and misguided views. Meanwhile it will cause others to be reviled and affirm a position against a particular group of people … unfortunately in this case American Christians in general, in so far as each individual will need to prove themselves before I can possibly accept them as anything else – unfortunate but true.

The Citizen in Hell song is something I’d like to have playing in the background while I’m handing out Halloween candy, although the recording is poor in quality.

Shelly the Republican is an example. Parody is a very useful and powerful method of expressing an opinion, but unless it clearly declares itself it becomes self-defeating.

Richard, kindly save us from your speculation. I’ve suffered enough hate-speech and unwarranted attacks from readers of this web-site. I wish Hemant could keep his readers comments within the bounds of what is normally considered polite.

Baptists4Brownback are quite clear that they are a grass-roots campaign who are UNAFFILIATED with the Brownback campaign. Just because you happen to disagree with their uncompromising point of view does not necessarily mean that they are satire or parody.

I’ve found that labels like “satire”, “parody” and “irony” are words that liberal atheists uses to mask the cognitive dissonance they feel when being forced to confront ideas they find personally discomforting. Perhaps you should take a moment to read some of B4B’s sensible and sobering articles before you dismiss them as objects of ridicule next time?

Tristan

aren’t paradies supposed to be funny?

They can be funny if you’re not the one being mocked. Sometimes they’re supposed to seem real and incite a fight. Then it’s only funny to the writer.

The website does seem like a parody. What’s scary is some of the people writing in comments who think it’s real….like the one who thinks atheists should have an A tatooed on their foreheads…

Most likely the more bizarre comments are written by the writer of the article, pretending to be a reader. It’s just another part of the parody.

Think about it. If we had so totalitarian a theocracy in this country that authorities could put tattoos on atheist’s foreheads, they’d just put a bullet there instead.

With so many of the comments clearly phony it’s a waste of time to read them or respond to them. That is a site for suckers.

I’m not understanding the final paragraph, though. Haven’t the ideas of banning books and having an M (for Mature) rating for video games/TV shows shown people that if you try to censor something from your kids, they’ll just want it more?

You’d think people would have figured that out by now…..

The website does seem like a parody. What’s scary is some of the people writing in comments who think it’s real…….like the one who thinks atheists should have an A tatooed on their foreheads…….