Today's Topics:
Good ole fashioned Helloween.
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From: "Charles E. Patisaul" <gt7950b@prism.gatech.edu>
Message-Id: <199210190540.AA15801@prism.gatech.edu>
Subject: Good ole fashioned Helloween.
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 1:40:44 EDT
Originating from that Little Yellow House in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
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[from The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constition 12. October, 1992]
Baptists to give youth a taste of Halloween hellfire
Associated Press
Nashville Tenn.- Leaders of a Baptist church hope to scare some young
people into accepting the gospel the Halloween with their "Judgment House."
How's this for a bone chiller: visitors at Judgment House, on the
grounds at Two Rivers Baptist Church , will first meet teenager Billy, who
is teased by friends for his Christian beliefs.
Next, trick-or-treaters see Billy's parents getting the news that
Billy and his girlfriend have died after a car accident. Then Billy is
accepted by Jesus Christ into heaven, but his girlfriend doesn't make the
cut because she rejected the gospel. Jesus condemns her to hell, and then
visitors see a Baptist version of the underworld.
Using construction heaters to blow heated air through ducts, hell is
represented as a room with a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. "We'll
tell them they just spent a minute in something that doesn't begin to
represent the real thing," said Jeff Atwood, director of special ministries
at Two Rivers.
The attraction winds up with an explanation of a "plan of salvation"
by volunteers.
Mr. Atwood said Judgment House is a wholesome alternative to the
standard haunted houses that always pop up around Halloween.
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