Faraway, So Close

I think I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw this. Godtube is a copy, almost line for line, of Youtube complete with a Askaninja.com clone (SoldierinGodsArmy), Mac vs PC clones (link) and Clay Aiken videos?!?

Yet another 'safe place' that is a copy of something succesful, with all the bad stuff removed so that the Christians won't have to struggle and deal with the real world out there.

I read about this on Wired, in this writeup - including the quote below regarding this video:

Admittedly, this one's pretty clever. Pan-offensive novelty rap is turned into a stunning anthem of Bible-literacy by changing a single word in the title. Unfortunately, it took almost twenty years for Christians to get around to parodying a song made famous in 1992, when Christians were still busy trying to come up with 11 minutes of Christian-themed lyrics to insert into Don McLean's "American Pie."

I don't think it was 20 years, but the point remains.

Posted by iChris at 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Passed along from a certain youth pastor who may or may not want his/her name associated with this. :)

Hell is populated mainly not by passionate rebels, but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn. Peter Kreeft

By the way, are the people a little dull this morning? No problem. Change keys on each verse, increase the volume and dump all songs in minor keys. What matters is that everyone has a great, happy, ego-renewing experience. Monte Wilson - click to read entire article

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