All about life
3 posts in 3 days, arnt the fans lucky.
this new jesus: all about life campaign to get the youth into religion thing is pissing me off. Now I know I'm a little byest having strongly regected my religious upbringing and having a strong disliking of most christians on a superficial basis, but this latest trick is insane.
In the commercials they have 'cool' looking youths, who I assume are Yankees talking about whats important to them. It seems like some sort of anti-drug commercial at first but then one mentions that they dont really like religion. Then it cuts to a quick shot of the youths partyin on some city street and one says something like 'I dont really dig religion but that Jesus guy had some real interesting things to say'.
What the hell is this!? Now thats one thing but now I am seeing the signs up for this campaign all over town. The huge irony of it is that I am seeing the signs on churches. Who the hell are the churches trying to kid..'oh we aint religious we just like Jesus, this whole church building thing is just a place where the youths can hang out and party down'. I'd hate to think what paradise community church are doing with this campaign.
At Adelaide Uni the Christian group put up lots of 'thought provoking' signs around the place, trying to spark an interest in religion. stuff like 'god is dead' 'jesus is a wimp' and crap like that. They also have hoodies now, so they can walk around in some sort of youth type uniform. I can see people saying to themselves 'well if they wear hoodies this whole Jesus thing must be pretty cool, sure they are anti-gay and want to make abortions illegal but they have hoodies!'
Balls to them I say. They are corrupting our young and turning people into guilt ridden losers. I dont understand why they are allowed to get away with this stuff, it ruined my life for many years and left me with a lot of ridiculous hang ups. Now they are trying to seduce more people in with some 'its cool to be Christian' crap. I wont have it.
I wonder if I tried to protest their meetings they would talk jive to me and act all 'we are cool with protesting, jesus invented it'.
Get lost. Christians like nerds should have no confidence and should hide away with their little groups and not try to force it upon us. Just like the nerds have their Dungeons and Dragons games. You dont see nerds making ads saying 'i dont really dig dungeons and dragons but the orcs do make some good points'.
this new jesus: all about life campaign to get the youth into religion thing is pissing me off. Now I know I'm a little byest having strongly regected my religious upbringing and having a strong disliking of most christians on a superficial basis, but this latest trick is insane.
In the commercials they have 'cool' looking youths, who I assume are Yankees talking about whats important to them. It seems like some sort of anti-drug commercial at first but then one mentions that they dont really like religion. Then it cuts to a quick shot of the youths partyin on some city street and one says something like 'I dont really dig religion but that Jesus guy had some real interesting things to say'.
What the hell is this!? Now thats one thing but now I am seeing the signs up for this campaign all over town. The huge irony of it is that I am seeing the signs on churches. Who the hell are the churches trying to kid..'oh we aint religious we just like Jesus, this whole church building thing is just a place where the youths can hang out and party down'. I'd hate to think what paradise community church are doing with this campaign.
At Adelaide Uni the Christian group put up lots of 'thought provoking' signs around the place, trying to spark an interest in religion. stuff like 'god is dead' 'jesus is a wimp' and crap like that. They also have hoodies now, so they can walk around in some sort of youth type uniform. I can see people saying to themselves 'well if they wear hoodies this whole Jesus thing must be pretty cool, sure they are anti-gay and want to make abortions illegal but they have hoodies!'
Balls to them I say. They are corrupting our young and turning people into guilt ridden losers. I dont understand why they are allowed to get away with this stuff, it ruined my life for many years and left me with a lot of ridiculous hang ups. Now they are trying to seduce more people in with some 'its cool to be Christian' crap. I wont have it.
I wonder if I tried to protest their meetings they would talk jive to me and act all 'we are cool with protesting, jesus invented it'.
Get lost. Christians like nerds should have no confidence and should hide away with their little groups and not try to force it upon us. Just like the nerds have their Dungeons and Dragons games. You dont see nerds making ads saying 'i dont really dig dungeons and dragons but the orcs do make some good points'.
posted by matt at 1:30 PM
11 Comments:
you realize that by talking about it on your famous blog that you are just sparking extra interest in the cause..
oh what the hell. i am against censorship ..
we have the greatest campaign here - they give you cards with flames on them (presumably hellfire) that say "know jesus, no hell. no jesus, know hell!" in faux-hardcore evanescence-style font. the best one has musclebound seminude man in torn robes holding two crosses like guns, and it says "jesus, the ultimate superhero." that's just crazy. everyone knows that gary busey is the ultimate superhero.
i love how those ads have people saying 'we're not religious but we love jesus' or something like that, then at every big church you pass (ie the one on goodwood road on the way to flinders uni) there is a sign for those ads.
FUCKED.
AND stupid.
famous blog ey...
It's not famous, you fool. The comments are just all your friends.
i'm not sure how interesting the orc action will be but there is going to be cocktail d&d at the dollhouse in a couple of weeks. we've taken our cue from the jesus campaign and are trying to "sex up" dungeons and dragons by adding booze.
i must go and buy myself a 20 sided dice.
d&d at a party. sounds awwwwesome.
i love nerds. i really do.
Paradise community church is an evil, evil cult which needs to be abolished.
A buddhist friend of mine went to ONE meeting there ONCE (she went with friends) and now is a fully fledged convert.
Conversations with her pre-paradise were:
Me: "Hey, how are you?"
Her: "Good, thanks. You?"
Me: "Yeah, OK"
Post-paradise brainwashing?
Me: "Hey, how are you?"
Her: "I'm having a wonderful day that HE made for me! I'd like to thank HIM for all HIS love in my life! HE is my saviour! XD"
Me: "ummm... O...K..."
as a Christian, all I can do is completely agree with all of the above. Paradise isn't involved with the campaign and they are a dangerous cult with political ambitions.
But I have a lot of very cool Christian friends and I think you should be careful how you generalise.
Don't hide your light under a bushel,
But don't set the bush on fire with artificial light and smoke.
I know, all the marketing ploys are silly and should be unnecessary. But the thing is, they are just trying to make you more comfortable with their message. Bottom line is this. The world is broken. There isn't anyone on the planet that would disagree. All the sickness, violence, greed, and just nasty stuff proves it. We all long for something better. Just like thirst proves there is something to drink, and hunger proves food exists, I believe this longing proves something better existed or does exist, somewhere. Jesus came to show us how WE are broken and how He can give us that something better. That's all. We just want you all to know that something better too.
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