Comments on: Chapter VII: Those Darn Back Rubs

By: dougwils

dougwils — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:31:10 +0000

Jeff, not as lapsed as you might think.

By: Jeff Moss

Jeff Moss — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:17:20 +0000

Brilliant.

Just how “lapsed” a fundamentalist is Bradford, anyway?

By: Dave Hodges

Dave Hodges — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:06:24 +0000

Chris, I just saw that same clip. I was thinking to myself, Wilson’s fiction is no match for the strange truth of evangelicalism’s oddities.

By: jpmoya

jpmoya — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:26:22 +0000

I don’t know what happens to Johnny, but I can tell you what I’ve seen. Many of the Johnnies of my personal experience got married, had children, got reformed, and they now eat up your writing like airplane peanuts. Praise God! I can’t say my experience was anything like Johnny’s, but I do have to hang my head for a generation of church-kidz raised on stones rather than bread. If anything, my prayer is that your fiction will be received by those with ears to hear.

By: Christopher Witmer

Christopher Witmer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:29:06 +0000

One mark of a true apostle is the ability to keep one’s motorbike upright in church:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRoOx5L0DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axd_Y-DLXus

By: Christopher Witmer

Christopher Witmer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:28:37 +0000

Speaking of youth groups, this reminds me of how truly difficult can be to satirize evangelicals:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24232365-1246,00.html

Rev. Wilson is going to have to go WAY over the top in his writing if he has any intention of topping what happens in real life among modern Christians.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find a wall to bash my head into a few times.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:40:36 +0000

Hilarious. Best chapter yet. Good skewering of a lot of youth groups for sure. The cop telling Johnny to get married had me in stitches.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:08:58 +0000

(That’s “Icky homo” in case it wasn’t obvious…)

By: Dave G

Dave G — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:08:28 +0000

The phrase “Icky home” got a physical laugh response from me.

Keep up the good work!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:10:41 +0000

Purely delightful.

I went to youth group once. I didn’t wear the right clothes or go the right school, and (gah!?!) my mom wouldn’t let me participate in overnight co-ed events even when the boys and girls were sleeping in different rooms. She made me stay with the jr highers ’cause they weren’t co-ed. The scandal!!! Yeah, I got some funny looks from the youth minister on that one. Go figure.