“Pray that the airwaves are protected!”
Good ol’ Satan, always trying to Rickroll the fundies…
Christ TV Rickrolled
January 21, 2010 By 33 Comments
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I lol’d :-)
Hey, and these idiots are on your side of the pond for once! :)
Yep, we do have our very own fundagelicals :-)
I love the word fundagelicals… reminds me of the word fungus or fungi. HA
For some reason they sound even more ridiculous with the British accent.
I thought the same thing Mike. Its probably because most of my exposure to the English accent is through Monty Python, Dawkins, Red Dwarf, Hitchens, Black Adder, and the radio show of Hitchhikers Guide.
I know the Brits have their fundies too, but they are polite enough to not export them like Australia and the US.
Ours actually tend to be US imports, I’m sorry to say.
Behave yourselves, God knows who you are, where you live – and where your children go to school too. What’s more God has always spoken in an English accent because HE IS AN ENGLISHMAN!! HORAY!!
I get the joke now:
Rickroll’d: To be given a link to a cool video on youtube only to find that the link actually takes you to the video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. A popular practical joke on message boards such as Gamefaqs.
Guy 1: There’s a new trailer out for the Simpsons movie! Click here!
Guy 2: Hell Yeah! (clicks link)
Video: We’re no strangers to loooovvvvvee
Guy 2: Dammit! I’ve been rickroll’d!
There are people who believe god’s native tongue is the King’s English. That is why they believe you should only use the King James Version (1611) of the Bible.
It’s also strange that many people feel the need to say “thee”, “thou” and other archaic English words when they pray.
Classic.
Kinda plays into what I was talking about on the Haiti post. I wonder why atheists are so much more convincing at punking others? When Daniel Florien had that preacher posing as an atheist last year he was transparent and not funny. Why isn’t there an anti-poe? Why is it so hard to tell the difference between a fundamentalist and a parody, when picking out the poser-atheist is simple?
The arrogant side of me wants to assume it’s because thinking is harder. It requires a real education and literacy to understand the arguments against a faith, but just simple acceptance to believe. Its simple to dismiss a helio centric solar system, or evolution by only believing what your eyes (or priest) tell you, but it takes work understand the science behind these revelations. It’s just not a good argument since there are so many intelligent people who do believe in a god/gods.
So why is it so easy to spot a thiest in wolfs clothing, but so difficult to tell the difference between a true fundy and a Poe?
“I wonder why atheists are so much more convincing at punking others?” Because our gay friends convinced us to take Drama in high school. Also, because we play godless games that involve alternate realities.
Perhaps, and just perhaps
its easier to pull off an act centered around irrational thought than it is for an irrational person to pull of an act centered around rational thought.
i.e. its easier to parody a lack of reason than it is to parody rational thought.
maybe.
It could be that we’re better at recognizing our own.
It’s an evolved trait: spot the outsider.
It takes a gift to speak in the way that you mimic your audience, who know the cadence and phraseology well.
The question is not, are atheists better at creating a religious poe that fools atheists? The question is “can atheists fool Christians better than Christians can fool atheists?”
After all, the Turing test isn’t about a computer fooling another computer.
There are some quite famous (well, in spoddy circles) examples out there of non-christian trolls who masqueraded as fundies, back in the newsgroup days, often progressively being more and more provocative before being called out. Some of them were never called out – they eventually ‘fessed up of their own volition.
I suspect that it has more to do with the broad gamut of attitudes in chistianity, combined with a sort of grudging tolerance towards the global brotherhood of christ. As a christian you can be anything from a bleeding heart liberal all the way out to a far right lunatic. Most everyone at the left end is aware of the lunatics, almost certainly disagrees with them and finds them distasteful, but are bound due to some aspect of the common ground they share to bite their tongues.
Basically, I think the impersonations on both sides are likely to be viewed as unfortunate and unrepresentative caricatures by the right thinking “majority” (sweet zombie Jesus I hope it’s a majority), but Atheists are more likely to say “you’re an idiot, and you don’t speak for me” than Christians are.
What that common ground is is up for debate. It could be a sense of brotherhood (although Paul is pretty clear that christians should hold each other firmly to account if i recall), or the fact that they share a reverence for the scriptures, or they are just plain uncomfortable about calling someone out for piety, or the message they’ve received from God, even when it’s stone cold crazy.
I saw this earlier today. How incredibly awesome.
Found another clip of a total fool getting Rick rolled,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
pure gold.
Very nice.
Cannot see :(
Well played.
This gave me one of the best laughs I’ve had in a while.
The poor sap, when he says “…[god won't] run around…” I can’t get over that.
What’s with the creepy guy in the middle with the Bible?!
God sits at his computer. “Okay, lets see who’s been praying to me today.” he says then proceeds to check his email. “‘Thank you for this food’, ‘Thank you for this food’, ‘Thank you for this food’, ‘Thank you for this food’. Me dammit! How do these keep getting pass the spam filter? New car? I’m not giving you a new car. I’m not helping you have sex! Protect the airwaves! What the fuck? Fucking me! Fuck this” God clicks select all then clicks delete.
god and his voicemail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZDcS-rMf4
This is so amazingly good. :O
I was trying to enjoy Rick Astley videos on YouTube and I got Christ-rolled.
WIN :D
Holy roller?
I wonder, who did the first Rick’Roll and how did that idea pop into their head?
hahahahaha I’m trying so hard to suppress my laughter because my girls are asleep. Awesome!
Godsquads aint got a sense of humour…………..looneyvilles!!!!!!
“We’re no strangers to wicked. You know you’ve sinned and so do I-I-I.”