"Why Believe in God" ad campaign

[Moonliner]

Well damn, I guess that ad worked.

People are talking.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Some churches preach common sense

[Alex]

The pastor of a mega-church says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days

Aren't you supposed to call a doctor after four hours?

More seriously it is a bit odd to preach that you should have sex whether you want to or not. And of course, the reason for him preaching this common sense is to reclaim sex from the dirty perverts who are having it in ways he doesn't approve of.

[Ghoulish Delight]

That's if the erection lasts that long. Sex is possible, albeit more complicated, without erection.

[Alex]

Yes, but as an evangelical faith I am thinking there isn't so much approval of those complications.

Why would you dirty something meant only for strengthening marriage you dirty pervert. You must be from Arizona.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

You must be from Arizona.

Hey, watch it, no personal attacks buddy.

[Alex]

Oh, I'm sorry. Let me rephrase in the message board time honored way of avoiding personal attacks:

Some group of people of which you are a member, but I'm not saying this about you personally just a group of people that so happens to include you, must be from Arizona.

[Disneyphile]

Visible Alex mojo!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I always assumed that the phrase "for goodness' sake" was a way of invoking God without quite taking his name in vain.

That observation aside, I still vote "no." As a believer in "self-evident truths," there's probably not much about the sponsor's positions that I would disagree with. Still, I view this as imposing a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Thus, what we are left with are reachers reaching out to seekers. Reachers and seekers generally intersect at the point of mischief and self-righteousness. If we're keeping score, I say the campaign sucks.

Huh?

BTW, the phrase "you can't take it with you" always kind of annoyed me. Um, yeah, I don't expect to play my Wii after I'm dead. If you believe in a heavenly, blissful afterlife, why would you want to take things with you? You wouldn't need them. I really don't care that I can't take stuff with me, because it's about having the item now.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Huh?

BTW, the phrase "you can't take it with you" always kind of annoyed me. Um, yeah, I don't expect to play my Wii after I'm dead. If you believe in a heavenly, blissful afterlife, why would you want to take things with you? You wouldn't need them. I really don't care that I can't take stuff with me, because it's about having the item now.

I agree with Strangler, in the sense that it's about not wasting your time on more material purposes than you need. I don't think it was intended to be about, say, things you enjoy (say, Wii) but more about the pursuit of wealth for the purpose of being wealthy, the acquiring of stuff for the sake of acquiring stuff, not because you love it. The aim of making "this much" money so you can say you have "this much." And at the cost of perhaps missing out on other things, which are free in terms of monetary exchange but expensive in terms of energy and time. Namely, love. Friends. Family.