Parkour for Jesus? Unfortunately, this is a thing.
About a year ago, my wife sent me a link to a craigslist ad for a guy who was starting a Parkour for Jesus group. Parkour, of course is the ‘sport’ of freestyle walking and running.
I found the screen-capture of the long deleted personal ad, and it made me laugh all over again. I had to whip up something in photoshop to celebrate (above).
I love craigslist weirdos. This is one of the finest examples. I actually contacted this guy after a few beers. I suggested that we all do parkour at the local planned parent hood parking lot. Jesus was sure to be impressed as our ninja-moves shamed those women! The guy pretty much instantly called me out and was pretty nice about it. He thought it was a funny suggestion.
Anyway, I have no idea if he ever got that group up and running out here in the Fort Bragg area. But if he had, it would have looked like this:
Have any readers had any run-ins with Christian parkour groups? Is parkour still trendy?
I’ll be bringing you plenty more of my investigations into the para/abnormal on craigslist. Fayetteville/Fort Bragg’s craigslist page is an untapped goldmine for crazy talk.
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Kate, Monster
November 26, 2011 at 7:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Have you checked for flyers on teh Meta Mile trail?
Justin Griffith
November 26, 2011 at 7:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
no, what’s that?
Crommunist
November 26, 2011 at 8:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Best part: guy’s e-mail is “dirty_boy”.
Greg Laden
November 26, 2011 at 8:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Parkour? Well, now I can put a name to what I’ve seen Huxley doing. He’s 2 (today in fact!)
I assume this young man was eventually arrested for damaging people’s property for jesus, right?
Anyway, I’ve never seen this in Minneapolis, but I think they do it all the time over in Saint Paul.
Justin Griffith
November 26, 2011 at 8:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think the non-Jesus version is quite popular on college campuses.
kentwilliams
November 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Please tell me this is a really good spoof.
F
November 27, 2011 at 12:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s a really good spoof. I LMAO’d.
Justin Griffith
November 27, 2011 at 3:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m serious. This is not a spoof. I LMAO too, but I also cried a little. And I think I threw up in my mouth. Then I laughed some more.
ajaxblackburn
November 27, 2011 at 4:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Seattle is big into Parkour and these kids suck at it.
Poor jesus can’t get no Parkour respect.
Boadinum
November 27, 2011 at 2:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve seen serious Parkour videos,with people walking up walls and jumping off roofs. These “Parkours for Jesus” stunts are lame…and the song had me tasting my own vomit.
I bet Jeebus never Parkoured. Kinda hard to do when you’re wearing a dress.
Kate, Monster
November 27, 2011 at 3:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s that trail that runs inside the fence by the Yadkin gate, and runs under the All American, round about. I got there by taking the access behind the trailers that house CAPOC, near the Green Beret Club place, um…the road off Riley where it curves up right before the KFC and gas station.
Kate, Monster
November 27, 2011 at 4:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ah. MATA mile. Here’s a link to one map of many. I know there’s a better one there at Bragg; the engineers grade it every so often.
http://www.dailymile.com/routes/79198-running-route
Walk, run, bike, take strollers, dogs.
allan
November 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
there are more serious once than this but anyways good you did it
Ophelia Benson
November 27, 2011 at 8:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Aw the whole thing is just a ripoff of “Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life.” Now that was a song.
kate winters
December 6, 2011 at 1:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Damn, I can’t seem to get the images to load properly on this website. I am using firefox 3.4… yes, I know I really need to upgrade, but several of my add-ons aren’t capatable with FF8. Anyways, I thoguht I’d let you know of the issue. Late.
Wanita Preisendorf
December 13, 2011 at 9:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Kansas City wild animal removal…
Parkland Residences
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