Landover Baptist Church
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The Landover Baptist Church is a satirical web site that serves as the home of a fictional Baptist church based in the fictional town of Freehold, Iowa. The Landover Baptist site and its associated Landoverbaptist.NET forum is a bombastic parody of Evangelical Christianity and the religious right in the United States of America.
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[edit] Views
The site professes many beliefs attributed to the Religious Right. The site proclaims, for example, that the King James Bible as written is the literal word of God. They often take it to a further extreme, for example; included are such proposals as; that tampons are "Satan's little cotton fingers"; that men who wear thin, colored underwear are either European or homosexual, "and in America there is no difference between the two"; that the spherical Earth model was a hoax perpetrated by "someone in a communist rocket ship"; and that George W. Bush was appointed directly by God to the office of President of the United States of America to do battle with heathens and other un-American individuals.
[edit] Gift shop
The website also has its own giftshop for the purchase of "Christian" products (such as thongs and bumper stickers promoting the church, even gifts for the "unwelcome heathens").
[edit] Book
The first book from Landover Baptist writers was released on September 12, 2006 from Time Warner Books. It is called Welcome to Jesusland (Formerly the United States of America): Shocking Tales of Depravity, Sex, and Sin Uncovered by God's Favorite Church, Landover Baptist.
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[edit] External links
- Landover Baptist Church
- Publisher's Weekly article about "Welcome to Jesusland"
