Berit Kjos

Berit Kjos is a fundamentalist Christian author who has written several books. She runs the website Kjos Ministries, and has also worked with Cutting Edge Ministries.

Kjos Ministries
One of the main draws to Kjos' site was originally her body of work attacking popular culture, although she eventually curtailed these articles around the mid-2000s. Unusually, Kjos took requests from her readers, and so alongside popular targets such as Harry Potter, Dungeons and Dragons and Pokemon she denounced less frequently-attacked productions, including Dragonball Z and the Spider-Man film.

Anybody expecting a rich vein of fundamentalist lunacy is likely to be disappointed, however. Considering that her associates at Cutting Edge have claimed that J.K. Rowling's books are evil because they include the colour green, Kjos' writing is remarkably tame. This excerpt from her article "Twelve reasons not to see Harry Potter movies" is fairly typical:

This, meanwhile, comes from the conclusion of her article deconstructing the animated film The Ant Bully:

In the end, Kjos' articles on popular entertainment are usually pretty much interchangeable, beginning with minor variations of "it's got magic and vampires and stuff in it, so grrr" before descending into lengthy filibusters about left-wing economic policies and the state of contemporary education. The real gems on her site, then, are to be found in the letters section.

Here, for example, is one of the e-mails she received in support of her article condemning Teletubbies:

Fundies Say the Darndest Things has racked up an impressive collection of Kjos Ministries quotes, mostly from her readers.

If her supporters' postings are hilarious, however, the messages from Kjos' critics can be just plain depressing. A look through the responses section of her site, particularly the part devoted to anime, will reveal reams of material from strange individuals who manage to be just as sad and deluded as the fundamentalist Christians they're attacking. Just look at this post from "Cubone, the Lonely Pokemon":

From reading the above, you would be forgiven for thinking that Misato was this person's wife or daughter. In actual fact, she is a fictional character from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

When you've managed to make Berit Kjos look like one of the less nutty people in the room, then something has clearly gone horribly wrong.

Books
Kjos' bibliography includes Under the Spell of Mother Earth, condemning the occulting undercurrent of the environmentalist movement; Your Child and the New Age, a Turmoil in the Toybox wannabe; and A Twist of Faith, attacking feminist influences on religion.

Best of all is The Invisible War, a novel for children. It stars two boys named Tom and Peter who live in the Kingdom of Troth, and shows how they were lured away from the King (representing God) by the Baron (Satan, obviously) after they and their secular friend Colin find a secret tunnel filled with fantasy novels, books on astrology, role-playing games and a ouija board. After encounters with the Baron's servants Odin and Rama, and a bizarre chapter in which Colin becomes demonically possessed, the children abandon morally and intellectually bankrupt fantasy fiction forever and instead dedicate their lives to the Holy Bible.