The Babylon Bee is created in the same style as The Onion, except it uses Christianity as its subject. The Onion satirizes news stories, and ClickHole parodies the BuzzFeed-style “clickbait” articles that dominate FaceBook (e.g., “You Won’t BELIEVE What Happened Next!”). A popular secular satire website is The Onion, and its companion website, ClickHole. ![]() The Internet is the perfect place for this type of humor. Also, they have used satire – a strong form of irony –as a tool to highlight ridiculous aspects of contemporary political and social issues. Since time began, humans have been using humor to keep a healthy attitude about the world around them. ![]() Also, the more our culture sinks into absurdity, the more important satire will be as a cultural critique.”įord also quoted Charles Spurgeon as saying humor “ought to be consecrated and used for the cause of Christ.” And, sometimes it just makes us laugh. . . “ forces us to look at things we wouldn’t normally look at and makes us ask if we’re okay with them. “It’s important to look at what we’re doing, to ‘examine ourselves,’” Ford said. In an interview with Christianity Today, Ford said he believes God gives us humor as a gift. It uses the tagline “Your Trusted Source for Christian News Satire” and publishes articles with titles such as “Joel Osteen Googles ‘What Is A Trinity’” and “Bored With Porn, Man Turns To ‘Game Of Thrones.’” The Babylon Bee is a satirical Christian news source. For years, he used Adam4d as a way to speak truth through humor now, he also does this with his new website, The Babylon Bee. However, humor can be a good way to lighten the darkness of the world that often bogs Christians down.Īdam Ford, a man who felt the effects of this darkness, decided to combat it with a webcomic called Adam4d. Many of us have succumbed to the modern tendency to take offense at everything. ![]() Sometimes, Christians take things a little too seriously. The Babylon Bee: Teaching Christians to Laugh at Themselves
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