Things Fundies Like

[AuntKrazy]

A friend of mine named his fantasy football team  "Big Butter Touchdown Jesus and the Bible Slots" after I shared the song and some of the other things I had discovered during my FJ lurking years.  (including my beloved slot machine app - Bible Slots!)

With regard to fundie destinations - no has really mentioned the Passion Play in Eureka Springs, AK yet. 

I actually got kicked out of the audience, once. . . you see - I've always had a rather warped sense of humor.  In my college fundie days, some  friends and I were on an ETAD (it was the 90s purity era, so it was a not-a-date-double-date ) - and the drive there was filled with sarcasm and laughter.  Needless to say, our program person was in costume because he was in the play.  We were joking about how he was really an over the top fan from one of our hometown's.  Then it got underway, and it was rather terribly staged and acted - and things were out of sequence.  I mentioned something about the sequencing, and my friend said "if the 3 wise men show up next, I'm leaving" and the next thing, there were 3 camels being led in on the horizon.  So that set off our giggles.  Well, this was almost immediately before the crowd started yelling to release Barabbas instead of Jesus - and when they did, my friend and I competely lost it - falling out of our seats laughing, because Barabbas was our program guy.  An usher came up and asked us to leave and escorted us back to our car, where we had to wait for the other couple.  

It's funny how I can see so clearly in hindsight that I was never really going to be a good fundie.

[onekidanddone]

On 12/28/2018 at 7:02 PM, Palimpsest said:

Wow.  I hadn't seen that article.  Thanks.

I've never been to the Ark Encounter but if I did I'd not be able to refrain from snorting at the dinosaurs.  They were totally on the Ark, you guys!

But I'm everlastingly grateful to the person who put the Ark's waste disposal system on youtube.  Noah had such dedication and imagination well beyond his time.   He had an elephant well trained on the treadmill to work the pulley system too.

 

This earns the What in the Name of Rufus is that thing award.

[Elegant Mess]

On January 2, 2019 at 11:49 AM, FeministShrew said:

My kids' dad dragged me to Christus  Gardens (the religious wax museum in Gatlinburg that's either gone or called something else now) on our honeymoon. I thought it was hilariously cheesy, but he was "moved to tears" and bought postcards of all the scenes.

I remember going to Christus Gardens as a kid.  The intaglio-style sculpture of Jesus that was on display in the outdoor garden was creepy - the eyes would follow you wherever you went!

[sixcatatty]

On 12/29/2018 at 3:45 PM, formergothardite said:

There is Christ in the Smokies which is like a wax museum for the Bible. 

My husband and I live in Kentucky. A couple of years ago, we found out Don Williams was doing a concert in Pigeon Forge, so we drove down. Somewhere between the Tennessee line and the turnoff for Gatlinburg, there's a huge XXX store and maybe 100 yards from it is what has to be a four-story cross. We had a lot of fun talking about how in these parts, it's the XXX store, you see the light and then kneel at the (Pentecostal or Baptist) cross but this one was the cross and THEN the XXX store. Later, a friend who lives down that way told us that a husband and wife owned the XXX store and when they divorced, the wife decided to build the cross on the land in front of it.

I did solely death penalty litigation for 14 years. As a result, I spent a lot of time in southern and Eastern Kentucky. I learned how to identify snake-handling churches by the title, type of signs and hours of services.