WHEN a Texas mum took her 14-year-old son to a Hallowe’en party in Pasadena, near Houston, the last thing she expected was a gory enactment of an abortion by a bunch of demented Christians.
Linda Ybarra, according to this report, said she took her son to the Hell House event expecting to see
The usual Hallowe’en things. You know, zombies and ghouls and goblins, that kind of thing.
Instead the two were confronted with a scene in which two “nurses” reached into a woman lying on a gurney and “pulled out a bunch of gunk”, which they threw on the floor.
The attraction also featured actors committing suicide “and other sins”.
Ybarra said:
I quickly realized that this is not something that I wanted to be at, so I asked if I could leave, and they did not allow us to leave.
Pastor Lamont Melrose of Potters House Christian Fellowship Church in Pasadena said patrons were not allowed to leave Hell House early “due to safety concerns”.
He said the attraction’s aim was to convince people to accept Jesus Christ as their saviour.
The material we are using to scare people is reality. We want to give people the horror of what it is to go through an abortion. We want to give people the horror of what it is to deal with a rebellious son that commits suicide.
Ybarra said her tickets did not specify that Hell House was religious in nature.
You don’t convert children like that – tell them that they are going to hell and things like that. You just don’t do that.
Hat tip: ZombieHunter
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November 2nd, 2011 at 2:49 pm
“You don’t convert children like that – tell them that they are going to hell and things like that. You just don’t do that.”
And I thought that’s precisely what xtians had been telling children for centuries. Scaring the poor little buggers shitless has been one of the most effective recruitment and retention techniques the church has ever devised.
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:54 pm
The terror system of winning converts is very old and continues, in many forms, to this day. Persuade a child that they will end in hell and suffer eternal torment unless they “allow Jesus into their hearts” (whatever that means) and they are unlikely to resist. The Roman Catholic believer is desperate to get a priest to mutter some gibberish before they die or a similar malign fate awaits.
In the abortion/suicide attempt at conversion they seem to imagine that be getting people there under false pretences and then scaring them they will succeed. What is so apparent is the despicable, ignorant and repellent characters of those who are attempting these scams.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:27 pm
They don’t allow you to leave early for “safety concerns”. Pity they don’t have those same concerns about teaching children such horrific shit!
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Pastor Lamont Melrose of Potters House Christian Fellowship Church in Pasadena said patrons were not allowed to leave Hell House early “due to safety concerns”.
I look forward to Pastor Lamont Melrose explaining that to a judge.
November 2nd, 2011 at 3:51 pm
creationist museums and silver ring thing used to be solely in America before they wormed their way over to the UK, what I’m concerned about is that one day someone is going to open a hell house over here.
I never got the fire and brimstone stuff when I went to sunday school we got all the nice stories about jesus curing sick people and all that crap and he was marketted to me as being some kind of superhero, I reckon spawn would ick jesus’ ass in a fight anyday \m/
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
@ Zombie Hunter.
Do we have creationist museums over here? I wouldn’t have thought that they’d be well attended. If someone were to open a Hell House I’d imagine that it’d be another nail in the coffin of Christianity. I don’t think that it’d go down well at all.
I saw something on this Hell House on one of Dawkins’ (maybe it was Bill Maher’s Religulous?) programmes – shocking stuff. It’s child abuse.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:14 pm
@Jim Dawson: Something else that doesn’t go down well in the UK are politicians, eg the benighted Rick Perry of Texas, who parade extreme fundamentalist beliefs. With US politicians parading outrageous religious drivel, and none of them daring to admit to atheism, their gullible public seem led into unthinking belief. The irony, of course, is that the politicians and pastors who peddle for advantage these beliefs are regularly exposed by their behaviour as charlatans.
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:42 pm
@ZombieHunter/Jim Dawson,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but last year in a ‘Centre for Intelligent Design’ centre opened here in Glasgow.
I’ve yet to visit it, but I’ll go soon and see what shit they are peddling.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:40 pm
The advertisement pictured says the attraction was a haunted house and does not appear to demonstrate any indication that the event was religious. I’m not sure what these people were thinking – are they truly so insular and wrapped up in themselves they believe that just parading their religious wares in gruesome fashion in front of people they tricked into paying to enter the house will somehow win converts? It is rank stupidity, but beyond that, refusing to let them leave is plain illegal. What were they thinking?
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:48 pm
@ tony e
thats the first I’ve heard of that I’m shocked, apparently they also want to build an exact replica of noahs ark somewhere in scotland too and they want to partly fund it with public money, if they manage to get two species if every animal on board I’ll say no more about it
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:53 pm
I assume from their name that they are associated with these people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....Fellowship
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Oh and here is the first part of a documentary called hell house which was made a few years ago, skip the first few minutes because it’s just some youtube user talking before the actual film starts and you’ll find the rest of the parts of the film on there.
This one is defo right up there with jesus camp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:01 pm
The religiots have plumbed new depths of depravity with this one, what were they thinking – of course they don’t. I’m certain they are going to gets loads of converts with that sort of display.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Somewhat OT, but Harold Camping, world-renowned comedian and soothsayer, has announced his retirement:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....69520.html
“He could have stopped everything if He had wanted to”!
November 2nd, 2011 at 9:52 pm
@ jim dawson
There’s a Creationist Zoo – called Noah’s Ark Zoo (or similar), down on the south coast. They do school trips! They also flypost the local area with creationist/after the flood type messages. The info is all there on their website – basically their proof is ‘it’s in the bible so it must be true’.
Nutters.
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Can anyone understand why these people were charging for admission if they were evangelizing? Was it to give the impression that this was some sort of entertainment?
Barry has covered the Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm!
http://freethinker.co.uk/2009/.....teralists/
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:02 am
I’d have left with or without their permission.
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:17 am
Why aren’t the promoters of stuff like this forced to put graphic images and health warnings on their advertising like you see on cigarette packs? This should really be considered as the xians are getting even more devious and malicious in their methods of exposing young children to their unwanted nonsense. Why aren’t/can’t these people be held accountable for their seriously dishonest advertising? (Be like McDonalds selling a beef burger made of horse)They don’t put any religious notification on the ads because they know that would turn most people away from their evil offering. Targetting kids with the death worship BS HAS to ber recognised as child abuse and regulated properly.
November 3rd, 2011 at 10:45 am
“Linda Ybarra, according to this report, said she took her son to the Hell House event expecting to see
The usual Hallowe’en things. You know, zombies and ghouls and goblins, that kind of thing.”
Isn’t that what they got?
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 pm
“You don’t convert children like that – tell them that they are going to hell and things like that. You just don’t do that.”
Errr…….isn’t that the fundamental recruitment policy of all religions?