Hell House ( a haunted house by Trinity Church in Texas) - lots of pics

[Kadie]

Trinity Church members Christina Hunt (C), 19, and Jonathan Collins (L), 18, act out an abortion scene as a video of a foetus is flashed on television screens overhead during Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States) Email Photo Print Photo


A boy poses as a figure trapped in hell at Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)


Trinity Church members dressed as demons take a break while waiting for the next tour group to come through at Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)


Visitors reflected in a strobe light react to a psychic scene, in which a girl commits suicide after consulting a psychic, at Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)


Visitors at Hell House watch a family violence scene, which portrayed a father who molested his daughter, and an eventual murder suicide as part of the plot, in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)


Prayer team members talk with people who have chosen to be prayed for at the conclusion of Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)


A boy listens to a sermon in the decision room after going through Hell House in Cedar Hill, Texas October 30, 2006. Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes depicting issues such as abortion, suicide and school shootings. At the conclusion of the tour visitors are brought into a 'decision room' where they are ministered to and offered a chance to receive salvation. Trinity Church officials estimate that close to 500 people over the ten days they've been open thus far this year have received salvation. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (United States)

[Downtown Hound]

1. It really is hell

Only not for the reasons they claim. That much ignorance can only best be described as hell.

[misternormal]

2. Just the fact that the "Christians" would do this...

... scares the hell out of me...

[sinkingfeeling]

3. They sure named it correctly!! Subjecting children to their 'weird' brand

of christianity is what is destroying America.

[TlalocW]

4. The online comic, Something Positive

Has a good story arc going on right now about Hell Houses.

It starts here:

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10032006.shtml

And is worth a read - especially the definition of "persecution" that one of the hell house kids give when asked if he knows what it means (the latest strip).

TlalocW

[knitter4democracy]

11. Touche, crazy old man.

*giggle* I loved it! It's so perfect on how it depicts all that insanity. :D

[nemo137]

22. I think Fred (the crazy old man) is Randy's best tool for telling stories.

If you don't read the comic regularly, that's won't mean anything to you, but poke around in the archives and you'll see some more "touche, crazy old man" moments.

[knitter4democracy]

24. I loved that series, so I should check out the others.

Very good, and very cool. He was just saying and doing what the rest of us want to but keep ourselves from doing.

[walldude]

14. Wow great comic.. thanks for the link!

:toast:

[Beacho]

5. I've heard some of these "Hell Houses" have "911 Rooms"

Wherein they say 911 was the result of our godless ways, a la Falwell.

[noonwitch]

7. You mean they are part of the "Blame America" crowd? How unpatriotic.

I think Bill O'Reilly should have them on his show.

[Kadie]

8. Yikes...

I haven't heard of these places before.

:scared:

[OneBlueSky]

6. child abuse, pure and simple . . . n/t

.

[Beacho]

9. This is where I heard about it

Something Positive Webcomic

This a comic I've read over the last couple of years by Dave Milholland. It's semi autobiographical.

Anyway, the last five or so comics deal with Dave's Dad, who is going through the early stages of Alzheimers and wants to see a haunted house, unsuspecting that he entered one of these places.

It's a fun read

[gratuitous]

15. "You, my friend, need a clue"

Fortunately, I happen to have one that's shaped like a nightstick.

Hoo hah!

[MissB]

10. They have ultrasounds in COLOR now?

Wow, I really missed out.

[Red Right and BLUE]

25. Actually, they do.

You can go have videos made of your baby in the womb.

but it's really fucking sick that they'd pull a stunt like this at these hell houses - obviously they don't make you watch it onscreen.

[Red Right and BLUE]

26. dupe

[The Stranger]

12. Oh, but the fun you could have with these people . . .

Go into the "Hell" room where the "trapped boy" is and start dancing and jumping up and down.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. This is something straight out of Landover Baptist

www.landoverbaptist.org

I can't believe people really do this sh*t!

[davidinalameda]

16. they do

this has been going for at least ten years in various places if not longer

[ironflange]

17. Heh

I'd love to see a Landover Hell House.

[walldude]

18. They tried.. it was shut down by the health dept. Bwhahahahaha

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1006/legalnotice.html :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Apparently they were using real blood?

[ironflange]

21. Aw, too bad

They had done it for 76 straight years, and now this.

:(

[tenshi816]

19. You have to wonder about the motivation of people

who are "saved" as the result of being frightened into it. I thought being born again meant that a person was filled with the Holy Spirit. Being scared shitless doesn't fit the bill, IMO.

[lyonn]

20. These people are sick SOB's - nt

[Raine]

23. chimp & uncle dickie

should go thru this hell house and find out how they are going to burn in eternal hell fire for all their lies and misdeeds. :grr: :nuke:

[Red Right and BLUE]

27. Sick, sick, sick. nt

[chefgirl]

28. Wait. Am I reading this right?

Visitors at Hell House watch a family violence scene, which portrayed a father who molested his daughter, and an eventual murder suicide as part of the plot...

Hell House puts a Christian spin on the traditional haunted house by using its parishioners as actors to portray scenes...

So, they 'act out' the scene of a Father molesting his daughter while these teens sit there and watch?? Then he murders her and commits suicide, while these teens sit there and watch?

Funny, but when my son was younger, if I didnt want him to have something implanted into his brain, I did what I could to keep him from seeing it/hearing it/experiencing it.

What exactly are they trying to accomplish with this particular 'scene'?

These kinds of people are twisted and dangerous. :scared:

-chef-