About Sold-Out Sandbox
SoldOutSandbox.com is your one-stop spoof site of elitist recruitment-driven charismatic religious groups and other dangerous con men.
If you love to be “discipled”, and you are moved to tears by your leaders’ sermons and rebukes and believe it is a SIN to criticize your Group’s leaders then “SoldOutSandbox” is NOT for you.
Waitaminute! Actually, maybe it is!
Maybe you will get a lot out of this.
Maybe this time next year, you’ll be senior editor at this site, grateful to be a free-thinking former captive of an insular extremist authoritarian group that barely allowed you to escape with your lives and your hard-earned cash.
Let the laughing and healing begin!
Who said that stuff we went through in the “Kingdom” wasn’t funny?
Click on the categories to your left to view and comment on the comics. Sincamper writes and draws “My Evangelist” and “Sold Out Sandbox” and other comics to bring clarity to the subterfuge that elitist recruitment-driven churches
and groups employ while attempting to expand their dominions of power.
Let us know what you think.
tylerdurden on 20 Feb 2007 at 3:25 am #
I am so glad that someone on the delphi forums provided the link to this blog.
The comics have been sorely missed as well as sincamper’s point of view.
May not always agree with it, but it is a testament to the power of freedom in
the marketplace of ideas.
Vig on 27 Feb 2007 at 4:48 pm #
Hahahahahahahahaha….non-stop belly laughs. Sincamper is great. Of course he’s a personal friend so I’ll say that. I say let everyone who breathes subscribe to SinCamper! It is a great satirical editorial on the extreme fundamental culture of Christianity, but more of a cult. Love it, love it, love it! Poignant. Clever. Insightful. And the crude drawings…hahahahahaha. ‘Daddy Got Buked’ (of the My Evangelist series) is hilarious. Soldout Sandbox has great potential to expose the maniacal meanderings of a Christian leader who is possesed with the notion that he has the absolute truth this whole world needs to bend over for. Hahahahaha
Bruford1 on 12 Oct 2007 at 6:01 pm #
Sinny, you are so freaking talented and know exactly how to put all of our experiences with this harmful cult into a cartoon. Please continue. We need it.
minan on 11 Nov 2007 at 6:06 am #
sinny i just found this web site. omg !! awesome.i wish you’d told me about it…
Schnizzle on 09 Jan 2008 at 9:01 pm #
ATTENTION: GOD IS PERFECT, HIS PEOPLE AREN’T
There has never been a perfect church, and there never will be. Even the 1st century churches started by Jesus’ apostles struggled with stuff like sleeping with their Dads’ wives, suing one another, witchcraft, homosexuality, etc. And they Paul, Peter, and other powerful men teaching them about God.
Let’s face it: Man always blows it, and he always will. This is true of the most faithful, most spiritual Christian. Leaders make mistakes, deal with it.
Every human has sinned (Romans 3:23), and through Jesus, God has forgiven all. So how can I, if my own sin has been forgiven, NOT forgive someone else who has hurt me? That doesn’t make any sense! Jesus addressed this issue for us in his parable of the unmerciful servant. He describes a wicked servant who, after having his debt cancelled by his master, tracks down another man who owed him money and demanded payment of his debt. When this man cannot pay his debt, the servant has him thrown in prison. Jesus talks of how forgiving our peers is the natural response to hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhGod forgiving us.
I’ll leave with this scripture:
Luke 6:35-36 Jesus said, “But love your enemies, do good to them (Whoa!), and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Schnizzle on 10 Jan 2008 at 9:26 pm #
Ed,
A few thoughts in response to some of your comments:
1. “in the icoc, back from 1992-2003, and very likely beyond, it was plainly taught that if you left the icoc church you left God. i saw this as a clear violation of the scriptures, especially romans chapter 8 and Jesus’ promises to “never leave or forsake the believers.”
This “icoc” aside, I see in the Scriptures that Paul talks about the church being the body of Christ. Jesus as well described the church as the very bride of Christ. The Bible speaks of a very intimate, close connection between the Lord and his church of believers. I believe personally that is tough to be walking with God and yet not belong to a fellowship of believers. How can one claim to be part of the Head (Jesus), and not apart of His Body (the church)? In response to your belief that Jesus promised never to leave his followers, I agree, and insist that it is us who can forsake Him. And we do this by walking out on His bride, or His body. Martin Luther himself tore the book of James out of his bible, becuase James claimed man could “fall away” from the grace of God. I believe God will never forsake when we cry out to Him, but we as humans are vulnerable to turning away from God. And I believe that leaving the body of believers is never the right thing to do. If God loves her, why can’t we, no matter how imperfect she is? (The book of Hosea is a radical example of God’s unconditional love).
2. I find this idea of biblical heresy tough to follow. In this day and age where everyone has an english bible and can follow along during sermons and lessons, how does one man expect to teach falsely about what is written in the Bible? Acts 17 describes the Bereans as noble because they heard what Paul said and went home to examine the Scriptures, making sure what he was teaching could be backed up by the old testament. If a preacher makes a claim that strikes me as untrue, I can read the scriptures and determine for myself whether I believe what he’s saying or not. And when an entire congragtion of any kind of church is doing this as the Bereans did, I think it is hard for a blaspheming evangelist to remain employed. If a guy teaches and explains the Word well, then I can appreciate what he’s doing. If he is careless with the Scriptures or even heretical, he’s just not going to be around long. Preaching just isn’t his thing. Now even myself, I am guilty of publicly sharing about a passage that I did not understand fully, and afterward a friend cam and showed me the context of the scripture I used and why it did not apply to what I was sharing about. Was I a heretic? I hope not, I think I just made a mistake and was able to learn from the error and better know God’s word. Heresy was huge back in the day when the public was illiterate and did not have their own bibles to study. They were fed false teaching like infant baptism and indulgences. But with the Word more widely available to Joe Schmo Layman (myself), heresy is just not as widespread.
What do you think?
Schnizz
Admin on 13 Jan 2008 at 12:55 am #
I just posted one of my favorite episodes of “My Evangelist” where a Brother has just experienced the death of his mother but all his ministry leader cares about is church stats. While demanding a stat sheet from the brother who was forced to attend a church workshop instead of his mother’s own wake, that leader gets a papercut and the entire Kingdom reacts to rush to the leader’s defense and needs. I use hyperbole and exaggeration to make my points with these comics to attempt to pinpoint the intangible nature of religious hypocrisy. It is hard to explain with words but by showing a “skit” that emphasizes the difference between the real world and the illusions of the church facade, it is easier to pinpoint where the problems lie. In this case, and in most cases of ICC hypocrisy, the problems stem from people treating leaders as more valuable commodities in the churches and the leaders respond to that attention with every kind of mischief and evil. Since none of these leaders are actually men worthy of respect, everything they say and do is dangerous, destructive and comical. This is why it is so easy to make cartoons showcasing their hypocrisy and yet have the cartoons be riddled with truth. It REALLY was that comical. It REALLY was that pathetic. It REALLY was that dangerous. In closed loop systems like the ICC, leaders could pretty much have you murdered (spiritually speaking) if they “felt like it” and they often did. Feel like it, that is. I created a hitman character that ICC leaders could call on when they needed someone taken out. He would arrive with suitcase, gloves etc to perform the hit but would actually just twist the truth and the scriptures to get the desired effect; the death of that person in the eyes of the members. The hitman had accomplished his task, just another day in the seedy underworld of the ICC. These might seem far fetched but pretty much every comic I have done about the ICC (about 800 comics) has been based on the truth of the hypocrisy and pinpointing the difference between the reality and the illusion of the superiority of its leaders. It has left me with enough material to fill thousands of volumes. Stay tuned, I am going to start posting many episodes. Sincamper
An Anonymous Christian on 24 Jan 2008 at 6:48 am #
This website has some hilarious things on it. I am rolling. I haven’t checked it all out, just one episode. Great work.
Make sure you check out the Worldwide Church of Christ.
www.wwcoc.org
An Anonymous Member of the Worldwide Church of Christ
and former member of the ICOC
Mike Paglia on 30 May 2008 at 5:51 pm #
I just came across this site:) I’d like it if you’d download and add my ICC comics to this site. They’re located at:
http://www.mikepaglia.com/cp/thumbnails.php?album=19
Peace!