GodTube: The Downloadable Jesus?

Dallas, TX- In response to sites like YouTube, a site named GodTube.com has sprung up on the Internet, showing short clips and music videos geared towards Christians. Some of the submissions to GodTube are well-rendered and hilarious, like one called "Baby Got Bible", which is a parody of the popular rap song, "Baby Got Back." Other clips, like one called "The Atheist", show Ray Comfort, a well-known evangelical preacher, "proving" creationism with (I kid you not) a banana. With Ray Comfort making double-entendre statements such as "the banana and the hand are perfectly made, one for the other," and "point at the top for ease of entry," and "just the right shape for the human mouth," I wasn't thinking about bananas by the end of that video. Other clips were downright idiotic, like the two "Chatting with Charley" clips I found, which portray a man named Charley rambling on with his "scientific" arguments against evolution, such as "what are you going to do with a tongue that's seven times the length of your head?". Hmm...could Gene Simmons provide an answer? Personally, I found myself hoping that Charley would get hurt by his own mousetrap. The "snap" I eventually heard was very satisfying.

God Tube is the product of Chris Wyatt, an ex-television show producer and Internet entrepreneur, and now student at Dallas Theological Seminary. Back in 1999, Chris says that he "hit a bump in the road, and my mother told me I had to get to know the Lord." In six weeks' time, Chris accomplished his acquaintance with God, then decided to try out several Christian-based business ventures. Eventually finding work with a Christian-based marketing firm, Chris decided to demonstrate the power of faith, combined with the power of the Internet, to his clients. So, he purchased the domain name GodTube and got to work, inviting viewers to submit faith-based videos and clips. By January of this year, the site was up on the Internet in test mode. It is estimated to get about 50,000 to 60,000 unique hits a day, and it hasn't even been officially launched.

Faith-based Web sites have certainly grown in number these past few months. There is Famster.com, for example, a more family-friendly version of MySpace.com. Conservapedia.com is a conservative take on Wikipedia.com, offering definitions that are faith-based (as well as a Bible Quote of the Day). Of course, Christian-based Web sites have existed for a long time (just take a peak at ServeHim.com), but the latest "hip" Christian sites are a novelty, created to emulate and compete with Web sites, such as YouTube, that are popular with the younger, more tech-savy, crowd.

Sources:
GodTube: Broadcast Him http://www.godtube.com/
BeliefWatch: GodTube http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17662283/site/newsweek/
Happy Faith http://www.stephencuyos.com/?p=274