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shanesongs
12/18/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
The Flying Spaghetti Monster idly waves his noodly appendages
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/18/08

@shanesongs: I heart FSM. I need to get a shirt.
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stanner
12/17/08

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The Eggbeater Jesus is not amused:

[www.flickr.com]
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/17/08

@stanner: Religion is not something to be yoked about.
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Claire Buoyant
12/17/08

@stanner: I'm scrambling for a good comeback, but just can't...
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T.S._delegate
12/17/08

@Claire Buoyant: hey, take it (over) easy, please.
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T.S._delegate
12/17/08

@stanner: you had to poach the subject, didn't you?
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T.S._delegate
12/17/08

@T.S._delegate: Omelet this string of puns go now....
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stanner
12/17/08

@T.S._delegate: These are all eggcellent comments! I glad to see it since religious discussions are usually so hard boiled.
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Smitros
12/17/08

@stanner:

Gawker commenters are well ova that stage.
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Seriously
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
Did anyone ever see the G-d ads Ogilvy did for the church of singapore. The govt ended up banning it - but I thought it was fantastic work. Tried to find a link - here is the best I could find:

[www.scribd.com]
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gawkimo
12/17/08

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"Diversity is what unites us" . . .

So leave your heathen faith and join Christianity before you burn in hell, heathen.
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propertius
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
These are collegiate churches. Maybe they are having something like graduate theology seminars.

Hint: show up and ask "Can God create a stone that he can't lift?"
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Nemesisesq Got Banned
12/17/08

@propertius: The answer is yes, remember when god cast out Adam an Eve for their original sin? He made it so man could no longer go to heaven when he died in order to change that God has to become man and then die in order to circumvent the decision to banish man from his presence.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
12/17/08

@Nemesisesq: Why couldn't he just say, "Wait, nevermind."?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
I think that this assessment is nonsense. Here in putrescent shit-hole New Jersey there have been billboards and advertisements about Jesus and his willingness to save and/or damn for years.
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blix
12/17/08

@braak: Richer hunting ground. Few people doubt the existance of Hell in New Jersey.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
12/17/08

@blix: True. It hardly requires an act of faith.
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semiserious
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
That's kind of weird. I was always made to feel bad for asking questions of religious folk as a kid.
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KentuckyBabe
12/17/08

@semiserious: I never felt the need to ask questions in church. Episcopalians are pretty low key and awesome. I think most everyone was there for the music anyway (we had a bitchen choir) that and the cake*

*see eddie izzard.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/17/08

@KentuckyBabe: My Episcopalian pre-K class was not cool with questions. I specifically remember driving my teacher up the wall for asking questions during Cain and Abel.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/17/08

@Itsjustcatnip: BY asking that is.
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Aaron Altman
12/17/08

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vs

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BullfightsOnAcid
12/17/08

@Aaron Altman: I think I have to go with the Pringles Guy especially now that they have Cheeseburger flavor. I guess the Catholics could always counter with a Cheeseburger flavored Communion wafer.

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Aaron Altman
12/17/08

@BullfightsOnAcid: Competition.

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SultanaEleusis
12/17/08

@Aaron Altman: Where is that Pringles Church? They don't have one in my town.
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Aaron Altman
12/17/08

@SultanaEleusis: Not sure, though I kinda wish they'd used the cylindrical bricks. Just to stay on message.
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Hydroceph
12/17/08

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Advertising was historically seen as kind of lowbrow for the work of GOD... Wait a minute. Now they're worried about lowbrow? Please. To examine the various strata of Christianity in this country is to take a rebarbative plunge into the American class system, and frankly, most of the brands don't market well. And questions? Only the upmarket versions of Christianity even pay lip service to questions, which is probably why no one goes there anymore.
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Private Hangnail
12/17/08

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If God sees everything, did he see me that time I got drunk and stole all those lawn virgins? Also, can the lawn virgins that are now decorating my home see me when I get drunk and sing Womanizer?
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wattznext
12/17/08

@Private Hangnail: Man, the best I can do is hope to get drunk and go home with some lawn skanks. You must be pretty good looking...
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hatey
12/18/08

@Private Hangnail: I hope you really did this. Because it was my high school activity of choice. A bottle of Smirnoff, three good friends, my Mazda, and it was a decent Friday night.

We would store the lawn couples and Jesuses in the art room and claim they were components of an installation.
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wattznext
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
I'm not sure I see what's so "quirky" about these ads.

At least they're easier to ignore than the people who try to hand me the Jesus cards in the subway.
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Mount_Prion
12/17/08

@wattznext: But you won't get a reaction from an ad if you guffaw in its face.
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wattznext
12/17/08

@Mount_Prion: When there are multiple people all lined up giving out cards, the best thing to do is take the card from the first person and hand it to the second person.

It confuses the hell out of 'em!
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Aaron Altman
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
Why hasn't Kanye stepped up to help them yet?
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Aaron Altman
12/17/08

@Aaron Altman: I mean, he practically wrote their jingle.
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everfade
12/17/08

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Jesus would not approve of this. He knows that viral marketing is the way to go.
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Astigmatism
12/17/08

@everfade: You mean like giving smallpox to the nonbelievers?
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everfade
12/17/08

@Astigmatism: Nothing brings in the sheep like a good old fashioned plague.
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llamalash★
12/17/08

In reply to Soft-Selling Jesus
That's odd. I never found questions very welcome at all in the churches I attended. People would always say questions were good and welcome. But, then you ask them and suddenly you don't have faith and are going to burn in hell. New york churches must be different.
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Perhaps Not
12/17/08

@llamalash: Eh. I have a pretty good church and they don't mind my occasional heathen spasms of doubt.
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apocalypse-nowish
12/17/08

@llamalash: My mom's church (the one I grew up in from birth to senior year) was cool about questions. I guess I lucked out with a cool minister and a cool youth leader. However, their answers didn't seem to work for me, so I left anyways.
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llamalash★
12/17/08

@apocalypse-nowish: Oh. I see. You both went to "those" churches. You do realize according to the Southern Baptist churches I attended (the White ones, not the Black ones, sadly*) your churches are going to be at the front of the hell line. I mean, they even put you in front of Jews and gasp, Catholics!

*see Eddie Izzard

ps. In case I'm not as witty as I'd like, I am just joking. I'm an agnostic who believes that IF there's heaven/hell, the church attended has nothing to do w/getting in. It's all about the life led.
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Perhaps Not
12/30/08

@llamalash: Well, if you're in NY now, stay away from The Journey [Into Racism, Ignorance, and Corporatized Jesus Freakouts] and try out Redeemer if you like the bigger churches, or maybe Origins for the lift-hands-and-sway crew and All Angels for the quiet Anglican bunch. All nice, all fairly conservative theologically and pretty multiculti and socially involved to boot.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/16/08

In reply to War on Christmas Hits France!
That's IT! NO MORE freedom fries! Let's call them french fries again.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
12/16/08

@oyvehisyou: That'll show those damn terrorists we mean business!
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