From Friday’s New York Times:
Since 2008, ChristWire.org has emerged as the leading Internet site for ultraconservative Christian news, commentary and weather reportage. “Hurricane Earl Projected Path, Gay East Coast of America,” ChristWire opined last Monday. One headline in late August proclaimed, “Warning! Black Music Infiltrates the Minds of Future Homemaking White Women.” Last week, referring to Ken Mehlman, the former Republican Party chairman who came out of the closet last month, ChristWire asked, “Why does Ken Mehlman think that choosing the homosexual lifestyle is more important to him than the Republican values he once held so dear?”
Too bad the content is all fake. That’s right, Christwire.org (Warning, current front page is questionably NSFW) is a big Internet fake news site, similar in intent to the Landover Baptist Church. Yet countless of its readers take it seriously.
Of course, thanks to the way our brains tend to resolve cognitive dissonance, those countless readers will probably refuse to to believe this new information that it’s all a joke, and never understand that the joke has been on them.
It’s pretty hard to tell sometimes. It’s not the people who take it seriously as an example of christian hate we should worry about, it’s those who take it seriously and agree with it that’s the problem.