Poking fun is probably the wrong term, though.

This collection actually whacks them over the head, punches them in the solar plexus, then gives them a wedgy while they're still breathless. Cackling and snickering all the while. It's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. You open a page at random, let your jaw drop because you just can't believe they're going there, then take a break to recover before trying something else. I still haven't looked at everything, because I want to save some fun to savor later.

The basic idea is to exaggerate into absurdity some of the more extreme and more commercial aspects of born again Christendom and the religious right as seen in America today; from the luxurious and well-funded home campus through instructions on how to recognize various elements of the unholy (i.e. anyone who believes or behaves differently) through spoof ads like that for the Landover Baptist Church Christian Visa - "expires at rapture." In between are essays to help kids trick their foreign classmates into "renouncing their parents' phony god" a hilarious True Christian (tm) TV Guide, and an even funnier fake Amazon.com page listing books such as Daddy, Why did Jesus Kill Grandma (Teaching Toddlers About Hell)? or Laura Bush's Guide to Harlot Rearing when you only have 20 min and 2 shot glasses. With countless other bits that show an amazing breadth of inventiveness and absolutely no inhibitions about what they poke fun at or how.

Highly recommended, as I already have to a bunch of friends. Remember that the target is the extremes and absurdities of behavior, not the idea of being religious itself, and take your sense of humor out for a romp.