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Kirk cameron to host Atheist Experience

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I went to "The Atheist Experience" website and apparently Kirk Cameron played an elaborate hoax on the Christian world. He was one of the stars of growing pains for many years and he told the world and apparently fooled everyone when he announced his conversion to Evangelical Christianity. Now he's revealed his hoax and plans to host Atheist experience which is a TV program in Austin Texas.
 
South Park just ripped him a new one, though, which ain't a bad consolation prize.
 
daredelvis said:
On 4-1-09 by any chance?

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Kirk Cameron to Host Atheist Experience

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



In a press conference today, Matt Dillahunty, host of The Atheist Experience, announced that he would retire and hand over the reigns to film actor, long-time atheist, and master comedian Kirk Cameron.


The 38 year old Cameron is a former child actor who starred in the hit comedy series Growing Pains, before going on to perform in popular Christian apologetics movies including Left Behind and Fireproof. "I'm thrilled and honored to be joining the cast of the prestigious Atheist Experience," Cameron told reporters today. "This apologetics thing has been a great joke to pull, but I think it's time for me to move on to a new challenge worthy of my stagecraft."


Cameron staged a fake conversion to Christianity in 1987, at the height of popularity for Growing Pains. He went on to deliberately alienate many of his friends and coworkers by loudly complaining about the "immorality" and "pornography" on the family sitcom.


"I'm a lifelong fan of Andy Kaufman," explained Cameron. "Even after a few years had passed, the world was still abuzz with stories about Andy's death. The guy had terminal cancer, and still everyone believed that he faked it. I mean, his practical jokes were legendary -- the myth has long outlived the man. Once I grew out of my 'cute kid' stage, I knew that my acting career was in danger of stalling out. That's when I decided that the best way to jump start it would be to take on the role of a lifetime. I had to convince the world that my whole personality had changed."


Cameron went on to ingratiate himself with unsuspecting Christian filmmakers, conniving his way into several promising film projects and ultimately ruining them. "This was my gift to atheism," said Cameron. "I'm just relieved that I can finally say what I really think on The Atheist Experience, and stop playing a double role."


Some of Cameron's dupes took news of the prank in good humor. "Now there's an actor," gushed Left Behind director Vic Sarin. "Everybody else seemed to recognize that the script we were working with was complete crap. But Kirk approached the project with such apparently sincere excitement that we kind of felt bad... we were all just collecting a paycheck. Now I understand that his awful hack performance was all part of a grand meta-theater project of his own devising. What an artist!"


Not everyone took the news kindly, however. New Zealand evangelist Ray Comfort, 59, was shocked by Cameron's revelation. "I'm simply stunned by this turn of events," Comfort told reporters despondently outside his home in Bellflower, California. "My goodness gracious, I've known the bloke since 2001. The crocoduck was his idea when we debated the Rational Response Squad. We bloody well worked on every episode of Way of the Master together. To receive news like this out of nowhere? I mean... crikey."


When told of Comfort's distress, Cameron was nonchalant. "Yeah, you kind of have to feel sorry for the guy... but come on, fooling Ray was not exactly the feat of the century. I mean, he fell for Christianity."


Cameron then added: "God damn it, where's the nearest bar? I haven't been laid properly in 22 years. I can't believe I passed up on that Julie McCullough chick for the sake of a joke. Now she was one fine piece of ass.


"What can I say? I'm dedicated to my craft."



Ok the joke is on me. This is apparently an April Fools prank.
 
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, thou shalt not bear false witness, OK that makes two commandments he just breached.
 
To me it sounds like Kirk Cameron essentially conned a lot of people into believing he was a given religion simply for the purpose of his own amusement and in some cases to get himself into film projects and then wreck them, again for his own amusement.

I don't think what he did was cool at all.

Granted, there are times I have claimed to be religious but usually it was kind of to insulate myself from criticism. For one a lot of people have a dim view towards Atheists, and the lable is often associated with amorality and intellectual-elitism (though not usually true) images of an angry teenager calling everybody stupid, delusional, mentally deficient, weak-minded, and the like. Some cases I claimed to be a protestant because I was actually raised as one, and I was confirmed so I do know a thing or two about that particular faith. Other times I pretended to be Jewish, which allowed me to actually say I didn't believe in God, but still claim to belong to a religion which somehow is better than being an atheist which makes little sense to me. There were times, truthfully speaking where I pretended to be Jewish to level the playing field in discussions regarding the policies of Israel, as this would often get you labled an anti-semitic, even though I wasn't criticizing Jews, I was criticizing a country. Claiming to be Jewish often prevented accusations of Anti-Semitism.

I had also joked sometimes that if I was to have run as a Presidential Candidate, I would have pretended to have been a right-wing war-hawkish, religiously fundamentalist holy-roller, which would have got me in, then immediately announce my true colors once in and screw all the conservatives over. However, this was kind of a joke.

What he did was not to shield himself from criticism, or level a playing field in a debate, or a stupid joke made among a few friends and some people on a message board. He did this for the sheer glee of deceiving everybody and screwing people (a lot of people) because he thought they were basically a bunch of dumb morons, and as dumb morons they deserved to be taken advantage of. People like Kirk Cameron probably help re-enforce the image that all atheists are amoral intellectual elitists.


Beerina,

Really, what South Park episode was that?


INRM
 
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INRM, did you miss the part where this report is an April Fool's joke, and that Kirk Cameron is still crocaducking along the Way of the Master?
 
boloboffin said:
INRM, did you miss the part where this report is an April Fool's joke, and that Kirk Cameron is still crocaducking along the Way of the Master?
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I'm skeptical of that. I mean the OP did say "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE". That means it must be true and warrents a long, sincere commentary.
 
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