Thursday, March 5, 2009

I hate ChristWire.org

ChristWire.org is either the greatest satirical website I've ever seen, or the scariest bunch of racist neo-nazi religious freaks on the web. The content on the site is absolutely absurd, and although I've been assuming that it's all just a brilliant joke, they have been unwaveringly consistent in their extremist views.

For example, when I see a picture like this, I can't help but laugh hysterically.



However, the people at christwire.org seem to believe that Marvel Comics put the blow-up valve there on purpose to help promote the "Gay Agenda" and turn young boys into "Homo Queers." Hilarious? Definitely. Scary? Only if they actually mean it.

Their site also has an advice column called "Ask Amber" where readers send in their questions, and receive valuable christian advice. One reader asked if it was ok for her teenage christian daughter to masterbate. Amber's reply was as follows:

Studies show that 87% of the women who become prostitutes did so because of unbridled masturbation as a teenager, and over 90% of girls who become pregnant as teenagers did so because of masturbation loosened their morals and made them more apt to engage in unprotected fornication.


Again, hilarious but scary. These are just a couple of mild examples from the site. There are dozens of creepy articles there that I haven't had the balls to read yet. With titles like "I Am Extremely Terrified Of Chinese People!" "Men Beware, The Gays Are Out To Get You!" and "Scientists Have Created Gay Pink Dolphin Species," the only thing worse than the writers are the zealots in the comments area that agree with all these articles.

Of course, the funniest part of all this is that this seemingly racist, intolerant, homophobic website seems to have triggered the Google Ads on their site to show a lot of banners ads for gay dating sites. Gotta love keyword searches.
Posted by where is the love? at 11:57 PM

5 comments:

  1. im in the exact same boat here. i dont know what id do if it was actually not satire. but until then, i love it to death :D
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  2. a pretty simple google search makes it clear this is satire.
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  3. Perhaps, but it was pretty unclear in March 2009 when the site was still relatively unknown.
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  4. I agree. The articles are funny (sort of) but the comments are really scary. 9:1 seem to not understand that it's a joke. Yikes!
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  5. It's still not altogether clear. The website staff themselves will not give to any idea that it is satire if you call them out on it via email. And it has been reported that the website was originally real fundamentalist Christians but that they accept submissions for articles and that some of these are actually fake / satirical.

    Either way the fruit of the thing is to promote hate- either against Christians in general (even non-fundamentalist Christians) or against everyone else. The comments from both sides are scary. Satire normally reveals itself at some point in the delivery and rams it's point home. If this is fake it is just plain deception and sabotage that is attempting to reinforce the view that Christians are all like this at some level.

    I fail to see any value in it.
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