This is the On the Media Midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone, and this week we're featuring an episode of a show made by our producing station, WNYC, in collaboration with the Atlantic magazine.

It's called The Experiment,

and this episode is all about the Christian satire website,

The Babylon Bee.

Here's the host of the show, Julia Longoria.

I recently asked Atlantic staff writer Emma Green

to pull up a joke that she told me

from a Christian satire website

called the Babylon B.

So here we go.

Okay, so this is from their early days from 2016.

And the headline is, Holy Spirit, unable to move through congregation as fog machine breaks,

which is really funny because, you know, I guess now I'm explaining the joke,

which is a little lame.

This is poking fun at the fact that there's a certain kind of megachurch where the environment

is very much like a rock concert.

It's like fog machines and skinny jeans and neon lights.

So it's just a funny joke to be like,

we're here to be reached by the Holy Spirit.

But the fog machine kept us from doing that

because we got distracted thinking that the fog machine was the point.

Emma, of course, covers religion for the Atlantic,

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