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:
@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.
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.
@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*
@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.
@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.
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.
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?
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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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Gawker commenters are well ova that stage.
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So leave your heathen faith and join Christianity before you burn in hell, heathen.
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Hint: show up and ask "Can God create a stone that he can't lift?"
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*see eddie izzard.
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We would store the lawn couples and Jesuses in the art room and claim they were components of an installation.
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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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It confuses the hell out of 'em!
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*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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