Ever been to a fundie haunted house?

[pstokely]

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like a "Judgement House"?
http://judgementhouse.org/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10/30/whats-scarier-than-a-haunted-house-at-judgement-house-eternal-damnation/

SOUDERTON, Pa. — She stepped into the pitch-dark room, illuminated only by eerie flames, as the sound of moans and shrieks rose over the ominous music. A hooded figure, dressed in black, leapt from the darkness to hiss in her ear.

Shadeilyz Castro burst into tears.

When the shaken 10-year-old left the room, clinging to her aunt, she was not talking about witches or goblins — she was talking about the Bible. “I have to read it more,” Shadeilyz said. “With my brother. I have to talk to him. He doesn’t read it much.”
Judgement House did its job.

A Halloween-time feature at evangelical churches all over the country, Judgement House aims to spook visitors as other haunted houses do during this time of year. But Judgement House aims to scare people for the sake of heaven.

[LeftInTX]

1. I went to a Christian based haunted house

They just showed some creeped out sinners. (Kinda like those drug education or syphilis movies) It wasn't bad. The Judgement House sounds much more intense.

[LeftyMom]

3. I've watched Hell House, a movie about the people behind one.

The closest one on that website is in Washington state.

[Warpy]

4. Looks like wherever there are right wing Christians

there are hateful, judgmental people trying to frighten children.

I notice there seems to be a nest of them in Roswell, NM. Probably moved there from Texas to convert the aliens.

[Solly Mack]

5. No. Wouldn't ruin my Halloween by going.

I have seen them advertised.

[Divine Discontent]

6. yes, went to one as a teen, just images of people doing drugs and drunk driving and laying dead, and

of course, abortions!

I rolled my eyes at the abortion part, but it's their opinion. I am sure some of the far worse ones out there have judgmental crap about gay people.

As a Christian, I cannot stand fundamentalist people who would enact their own false sense of what the laws of the land should be - and Trump has said key things they love, like punishing women who have abortions. That explains a lot of why a majority of church goers back him. No matter how perverse he may be in their eyes... just disgusting!

[Mendocino]

7. Sure have,

every Thanksgiving.

[lillypaddle]

8. It was YEARS ago

in the small town of Medford, Okla. where we were visiting my son's fundy grandmother.

Honestly, I don't remember that much, but I do remember it was scary, but not in the traditional Halloween way.

Let's face it, those people are nuts.

And slightly off topic, I remember that she gave him a Monopoly-type game where jail was "the prayer closet," and you didn't pass GO, but went to heaven.

[brooklynite]

9. Never understood the point...

...if you're not a religious believer, the message won't have an impact, and if you are you shouldn't need to hear it.

[pstokely]

11. they think they can scare people to gawd

and scare some $ outta them

[hatrack]

10. Naw, too big a risk of pulling muscles from laughing . .

[milestogo]

13. Fear based religion is contemptible.

[Archae]

14. Never been to one, but...

Back about 40 years ago, a group of fundys advertised a free "action" movie for us teenagers.

It was an "action movie," with "Endtimes prophesies" a heavy part of the movie.

We wanted to leave, the fundys wouldn't let us leave the theater, and after the movie a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher yelled at us.

Several years later, the group of fundys broke up, in a sex and money scandal.

Figures.