Even been to a fundie haunted house?

[pstokely]

Like a "Judgement House?"

[Drunken Irishman]

1. We don't have a lot of fundies in Utah.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I know they don't fit the standard definition,

but I'm inclined to think of Mormons as fundies. They are definitely a cult.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Politically, yes, they're the similar. Religiously I would say no.

...especially when it falls into holidays.

[Goodheart]

4. Yes. Fucking weirdos.

[Celerity]

5. we don't have that Gilead-warmup shit here, thank fuck

[MontanaMama]

6. No

but that sounds terrifying. If the SCOTUS thing doesn’t work out for Amy Coathanger Barrett, maybe that would be a good gig for her.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. No, but I imagine it's like a wall-to-wall Chick Tract.

The format is inviting—so small, so handy; mostly pictures. The first panel immediately plunges you into the action, as a paramedic huddles over Bobby, a teen who just overdosed on speed (we know this because the paramedic tells the crowd “HE OVERDOSED ON SPEED!”). “Wow! What a drag!” thinks one by-stander. An elderly man preaches the gospel to a kid and is mocked and beaten by a man in a leisure suit. The bully drives off with the kid; their car is immediately hit by a speeding train. “YAAAAAA!” they scream. In the next panel they’re in the Inferno.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/cartoonist-jack-chick-died-leaving-behind-lifetime-evangelical-comics-fascinated-generation/

[Best_man23]

11. Yep, remember the Bible tracts

Pretty certain handing these out is still the No. 1 way to ensure your house gets egged on Halloween night.

[Aristus]

14. Houston, Texas might be a Blue city nowadays.

But back when I lived there as a kid, it was the worst place I ever went trick-or-treating. Half the houses would give out Chick Tracts instead of candy. And we carried around cardboard donation boxes for UNICEF. When we asked at the door for donations for children in poverty, the people who answered the door would accuse us of embezzling the money for video game quarters.

Yes, there are worse people in the world than the ones who give out toothpaste and circus peanuts.

[MrScorpio]

8. They have those things?

[Hugin]

9. No, but, for a few years I had some...

kids-of-evangelicals come by the house trick-or-treating. (Although, I think they called it something else like 'tract-or-treating'.)

The idea was if I didn't guess which biblical figure they were dressed up as I would get some preaching. (The tract part.)

Being the open minded sort I am, I never failed to guess. Even the obscure characters. It is interesting that none of them ever dressed up as Jesus. That's probably a taboo.

Hey, they're kids and they enjoyed my candy. Maybe for a minute they didn't see the World in such an ugly way. I know their parents were highly selective of which houses they were allowed to visit and it's telling mine was always on the list.

If I'd had some Marzipan or Hanukkah gelt on hand to give them, it would be tempting.

[Blue Owl]

10. Too creepy

Not "scary" creepy -- just, well... weird creepy...

[TlalocW]

12. YES! And I was asked to leave!

This was when I lived in Tulsa, and it's somewhat relevant that before COVID, I was mainly a children's entertainer (magician/balloon twister) and close-up magician.

So the place is called GUTS Church (as in you have to have guts to love Jesus). They put on a Hell House every year, and it's quite the production. I had never been so one year decided to go see what it was about. So there was the homosexuals burning in hell room, the woman getting an abortion room, drunk driving scene, etc. The last room where there's a voice-over telling you you need to become a Christian was a rave scene with a lot of church members dancing, pretending to drink and do drugs, etc. (I imagine it was popular because they got to dance for once in their life). As the voiceover is talking over the thumping music, your attention is drawn to a kind of hallway that's illuminated more than the area you're in. At the end of it is a man in a tan suit. Lights go out in the hallway, and they come back up, and he's closer. Lights go out again, and he's closer, and then... he morphs into the Devil. I lose it and yell, "OH, MY GOD! YOU'RE DOING GIRL TO GORILLA! THAT WAS FANTASTIC! VERY WELL DONE!" And so all attention from the actors and the other people (who I didn't know) in my group is now on me, and I'm trying to explain what Girl to Gorilla is, and one of the actors asks me to leave and takes me to the exit. It's kind of an entrance hall for the building we're in, and I wait for the rest of my group because I know that when you step outside, there are going to be church members waiting to preach to you, and there was. I was approached by a young couple, and I told them that if they could look me in the eye and tell me that Jesus would approve of scaring people into worshiping him, I would talk to them. Neither one of them could meet my gaze so they just told me to have a good night. As I left, I passed by a teenage girl kind of of freaking out. She was surrounded by six people preaching to and comforting her - the two people behind her shot each other a look that said, "We got one."

The illusion they used is actually called Pepper's Ghost (look it up on Wikipedia). A common application was in sideshows where a woman - normally in a leopard bikini sitting in a cage is transformed into a gorilla, usually with a voice-over talking about how she had somehow been cursed while exploring a jungle, etc. All those holograms of deceased performers like Tupac Shakur are not actually holograms but a version of Pepper's Ghost.

Here are some fun resources on Hell Houses

First is two atheists talking about a documentary on one. Very informative

A storyline from one of my favorite online comics. This is the beginning of it. Don't need to know the characters. Next Links are under each comic.
https://somethingpositive.net/comic/a-haunting-we-will-go/

TlalocW

[WyattKansas]

13. I would be too inclined to keep yelling out...

Where are all the back alley bloody abortions and clothes hanger abortions from Roe v. Wade being overturned?