A mind blowing example of Poe's Law: It's like Brass Eye....ON ACID!

The Rational Wiki defines Poe's Law as follows:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

Of course it works both ways, often I stumble over religious material so insane that I believe it to be parody, but which is, in fact, genuine. For example here are some church websites. I should warn you that they are both visual and noisy. But it still won't prepare you for what you are about to see. They are amazingly awesome.

• International Congress of Church and Ministers — A site for ensuring the tax free status of churches with the IRS.
  
• Evangel Cathedral — An evangelical Cathedral.
  
• KK Mime — Evangelical Ministers who minister via the medium of yes, you guessed it, mime.
  
• Truth Transformation Ministries.
  
• The 7th District AME Church in South Carolina
  
• St. John Missionary Baptist Church

After watching all these I'm so stoked I could fight a bear. I genuinely think they are amazing. They all seem to have been produced by SharperFX who specialise in making websites. Websites for insane churches.

If Chris Morris was to create a Brass Eye Episode about these churches, his parody would be interchangeable with the real thing and no one, on either side, could tell.

And that kinda makes me happy.

(via reddit)