This post really started as a chat with Aditya based on my reply on his blogpost about a recent onion article. For the uninitiated, the onion is a satirical newspaper.
Figuring out whether a piece is satire or real is becoming more and more difficult. Either the satirist are getting better or we are getting more ridiculous. It will be fun to institute a contest where contenstants identify whether a particular piece is real news or a parody.
Less than an year back, Rep. Tom Delay’s Legal Defense Trust made themselves look ridiculous when they used one of Stephen Colbert’s faux interviews on their website and their mailing to show the “anti-Delay bias” of the leftists.
Via Pharyngula, I came across the Faith Brokers, who provide “Sin Cards” that you can apply online to rid yourselves of the sin you have committed and gain entry into heaven. I think its a parody… but watching the right-wingers these days, one can never be so sure!
For example, there is a businessman in California selling holy drinking water. I wasn’t sure what to make of this until I read this news report.
This guy, who claims to be Jesus, takes the cake. Hands down! And there are millions of gullible people who believe him.
[…] Yesterday, Niket wrote about Onion reality and how confusing it might be to distinguish from the earthly kind. The biggest kick I got was from the last link on his post of this person who claims to be Jesus Christ. […]
It is quite easy to make holy water. Just take tap water and boil the hell out of it
lol
Knowing that hell itself is s’posed to be a hot boiling pit, wouldn’t you instead end up boiling the hell into it?
If you think carefully, it ain’t that easy to make holy water, my friend.
Depends on how you define hol(e)y…
Boiling water would cause bubbling - some might see bubbles as hol(e)y.
Hmm…