Very mean… yet very funny. Mostly I feel bad for her though and it probably didn’t change her mind about anything.
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Sorry, but even foolish, stupid, excessively superstitious people do not deserve this kind of treatment just for somebody else to get a laugh.
My philosophy is that anything can be excused if it’s funny enough.
My ex used to say, “A laugh at someone else’s expense is twice as funny.” I’m not sure he was entirely joking.
Notice, I said, “ex.” LOL
“When I cut my finger, that’s tragedy. When you fall down a manhole and die, that’s comedy.”
If it’s real, I’d definitely agree. To make someone think they’re eternally screwed is incredibly cruel. I used to genuinely believe I was hell-bound and the anguish and pain it causes can be very damaging. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone, even the nuttiest of fundies.
I can’t count how many times i’d wake up from a nap when I was young wander out into the living room where at least one of my parents usually were and get seriously afraid that I was left behind, only to find out they were in the back yard, or the front yard, etc. [and this was before Lahaye wrote any of his Left Behind books]
You know what? This reminds me of the cheeeezzzy skits that my church used to play on Sundays during our single’s Sunday school. They were trying so hard to be hip!
Yes, yes they do deserve this.
Everyone who deeply holds such uncritical beliefs deserves to be boiled in the juices of their own embarrassment if they fall for such crap.
Good lord that host is a douchebag.
My guess is that this is not real. There were too many cameras (not all the hidden kind) for this not be a put on. File this under “reality tv”.
Agreed. The acting was largely terrible as well. It all seemed far too produced and forced to have been some hidden camera set-up. It’s likely a parody of them coupled with a parody of wacky religious programming.
what would they have done if she didn’t excuse herself to take a phone call? And the place doesn’t look like a coffee shop, it looks like an office turned into a cheap sound stage substitution for a coffee shop. It certainly wouldn’t be the first instance of lying for jesus.
But really the fear of eternal damnation made manifest is the kind of thing thats only funny to a seriously deluded person. Not that the religious shouldn’t be mocked for ridiculous belief, but it seems to take a tortured kind of thought process to derive amusement from ‘haha, now you burn forever’.
And aside from the fakey acting and setting, the creators of this “prank” ignore one huge logical issue. What about the people not in on the prank? If we’re supposed to believe that everyone in a real coffee shop is in on the prank, but they don’t sort of signs or anything (that would tip her off) to keep out non-participants, then, uh, what about that? And when she stepped outside to take the call and the supposed rapture happened — what, no-one on the street disappeared?
If you’re gullible enough to believe the buybull is an accurate historic document you’re going to swallow a poorly produced fake hidden camera show hook, line and sinker.
It looks like a church coffee shop, actually – an area set up for drinks and food and socialness after church services. My church had one. It’d also be easy to set up the prank aspect, obviously.
Class A morons one and all.
That made me laugh and cry at the same time. People who don’t like their beliefs being laughed at should not have such funny beliefs.
Kinda funny. I was a bit torn between the hilarity of the idea of that actually happening, and the sad fact that she actually believes it. However I also think this was a bit fake. The acting reminded me of “Saved by the Bell”… only worse.
Ding Ding Ding, we have a winnar!
Unless that’s the way that american kids actually talk to each other, im calling shennanigans on this video. It all seems too scripted. When she says “we were just talking about this” is where it fell apart from me. My guess would be its a cheezy christian video that they think would convince non believers or keep the wandering flock closer. The host is a bit smarmy for my liking too.
This might not be fake, but it sure smells like every phony contrived “reality” show I ever saw.
Did he really say, “Little does she knows?” Way to make the subject agree in number with the verb!
Folks; WE’RE the ones being punked here. I’m willing to lay money that she knew all about this ahead of time. Also, you can’t tell me this wasn’t some kind of Christian college, like Bob Jones; these young people were ALL way too clean cut and white to be anywhere else! She wouldn’t have to “explain” the Rapture idea to them!
No way would she be only crying a few tears if she thought she had been “left behind.” trust me…I used to run in fundy circles – “wailing and gnashing of teeth” wouldn’t begin to describe it. And notice how she hung on to her drink the entire time. I agree with those who call fake.
What? Christians are ok with Lying? NOOOOOOO!
Even if their beliefs are total nonsense, I don’t think humiliation is the way. If you wanna show them how stupid their beliefs are, then it makes more sense to argue rationally with them. No matter how stupid someone’s beliefs are, it is always better to be civil.
Although, I do admit, it was kinda funny. But was cruel nonetheless.
“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”
You can’t argue rationally with people who believe in the big wizard in the sky.
You’d have to be pretty damn stupid to fall for something like that…
Pretty much every practical joke I can think of is based on cruelty of some type. Not a fan.
I thought it was a little funny. I do agree though if she was “left behind” there would have probably been some whole sale panic going on.
I also used to wonder when everyone was gone if the rapture had happened. That’s just another way to get us to make sure we are following the bible. Wouldn’t want to be “left behind” after all.