[Vision2020] Landover Baptist Church

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Sun Oct 25 14:36:14 PDT 2009


Visionaires -

I apologize for my mistaken belief that the "Landover Baptist Church" is a
reality.  The truth be told, it is a parody of fundamental Chrisianity.

Although Snopes has absolutely nothing related to "Landover Baptist
Church", Wikipedia does . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church

"The Landover Baptist Church is a fictional Baptist church based in the
fictional town of Freehold, Iowa. The Landover Baptist web site and its
associated Landoverbaptist.net Forum are a parody of fundamentalist
Christianity and the Religious Right in the United States."

In addition to its website, the fictional "Landover Baptist Church" also
consists of . . .

A YouTube account
http://www.youtube.com/lbc4god

A Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/landoverbaptist

A Twitter site
http://twitter.com/DeaconFred

An online gift shop
http://www.cafepress.com/landoverbaptist

Initially I was convinced that "Landover Baptist Church" was some
extremely radical right-wing political faction doing business as a
fundamentalist Christian church.

I was wrong.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom "Born-again Pagan" Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown




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