Online campaigns

My pastor signs off with “Blessings” I used to use “Have a happy (whatever day of the week),” but sounds stupid especially if you don’t know the person. “Regards,” “Sincerely” and “Yours Truly” either don’t convey what I want to imply or are overused.

I’d also like to use it when emailing non-Christian companies and people as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm

I like the idea of that – what do you think ?

Well, apparently the “spirit” has “called” a bunch of fundies from Grand Rapids Michigan to move to Vegas and destroy one of America’s biggest economies. Not only do they have a million dollars in funding, but now they also have a ABC Nighline feature to give them a PR boost.

According to their neat little religious meterics, Vegas is unclean and they want to clean it up, which of course, if successful, would mean the end of Vegas as a destination to escape religious wackos…or the end of Vegas.

When it really comes down to it…thats all Vegas is…a place to escape the insanity of religion. But these wackos claim to be “called” to this neat little “ministry”. If thats so, why has the spirit waited so long to send in his little squad? Maybe the spirit wanted to wait until all the neat internet technology and mega-church entertainment props were availble before launching a his little ad-campaign.

If this doesnt work, I recommend that the Holy Spirit “call” on the top marketing exec’s in the country, zombify them, and send them on a self righteous anti-vegas campaign with first rate advertising, instead of this shlocky undergrad stuff.

http://stripchurch.com/

Mormons prefer dealing with people who aren’t too bright, don’t they? Because bright people know that stories about golden plates, magic rocks and polygamy are a load of bollocks, right? And also, people on the internet have instant access to pages and pages of information about the Mormons whereas TV watchers just have to watch and listen…and occasionally wipe the drool from their chins as the gaze myopically at the images on their screens, right?

I was going through reading articles when this one popped up. It’s about a resolution soon to be put into effect in Britain which pretty much states that no one can have an opinion, stereotype or their own thoughts on the Muslim world. Here’s the article:

“Religious groups and free-speech advocates are banding together to fight a United Nations resolution they say is being used to spread Sharia law to the Western world and to intimidate anyone who criticizes Islam.

The non-binding resolution on “Combating the Defamation of Religion” is intended to curtail speech that offends religion — particularly Islam.

Pakistan and the Organization of the Islamic Conference introduced the measure to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 1999. It was amended to include religions other than Islam, and it has passed every year since.

In 2005, Yemen successfully brought a similar resolution before the General Assembly. Now the 192-nation Assembly is set to vote on it again.

The non-binding Resolution 62/145, which was adopted in 2007, says it “notes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of 11 September 2001.”

It “stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions and incitement to religious hatred, against Islam and Muslims in particular.”

But some critics believe the resolution is a dangerous threat to freedom of speech everywhere.

The U.S. government mission in Geneva, in a statement, told the U.N. Human Rights Council in July that “defamation-related laws have been abused by governments and used to restrict human rights” around the world, and sometimes Westerners have been caught in the web.

Critics give some recent news events as examples of how the U.N. “blasphemy resolution” has emboldened Islamic authorities and threatened Westerners:

– On Oct. 3 in Great Britain, three men were charged for plotting to kill the publisher of the novel “The Jewel of Medina,” which gives a fictional account of the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride. FOXNews.com reported U.S. publisher Random House Inc., was going to release the book but stopped it from hitting shelves after it claimed that “credible and unrelated sources” said the book could incite violence by a “small, radical segment.”

– An Afghan student is on death row for downloading an article about the role of women in Islam, FOXNews.com also reported.

– In December 2007 “a court reportedly sentenced two foreigners to six months in prison for allegedly marketing a book deemed offensive to Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives,” the U.S. government said.

– A British teacher was sentenced to 15 days in jail in Sudan for offending Islam by allowing students to name the class teddy bear Muhammad in November 2007.

– In February 2007 in Egypt an Internet blogger was sentenced to four years in prison for writing a post that critiqued Islam.

– In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered after the release of his documentary highlighting the abuse of Muslim women.

“It’s obviously intended to have an intimidating effect on people expressing criticism of radical Islam, and the idea that you can have a defamation of a religion like this, I think, is a concept fundamentally foreign to our system of free expression in the United States,” said former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.”

Now does anyone believe this is a GOOD thing? Or is anyone else with me in thinking that this is completely immoral to even TRY to regulate how other individuals view a certain religion?

http://geneva.usmission.gov/Press2008/Ju…

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,4325…

When I think back to all of the things in my life which have the most value to me, I think of the sensations and sentimental feelings I have towards first loves, first time seeing mountains and oceans, and little things people have given me.

If these are able to be recreated, through virtual reality or drugs or both, do they lose their value because they are marketable? Are marketable things, things which money can buy, less valuable simply because you can purchase them?

I mean seriously folks, they’re all over the internet, the secret of success, the law of attraction, the seven steps to greater spirituality, on and on and on…

How can something which is promoted by a multi million dollar campaign really be such a ‘secret’ is what I want to know.

Websites with new age pop religious junk, real life “testimonies” by paid actors, books and audio, DVD’s, made in China trinkets, (nothing against the Chinese, but really now)

I thought Tony Robbins had cornered this market years ago?

What do you think? I want to hear some of those “real life testimonies” they must be out there…

I was just made aware of the Atheist bus advertising campaign in London.

I saw their slogan
“There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

2 things jumped to mind “what does and atheist believe?” and the use of the word “probably” in their Slogan.

I thought that the definition of atheist was: Atheism, as an explicit position, can be either the affirmation of the nonexistence of gods, or the rejection of theism. (wiki)

And their use of the word Probably coming from the the word probable means: “having more evidence for than against, or evidence that inclines the mind to belief but leaves some room for doubt.”

Would this not mean that they place doubt in their belief as seen through their slogan?
Or another way to ask, is this contradictory?
I grew up in the UK, I am very familiar with the use of language.

Is atheism an explicit position of No God?
Kevin, I was interpreting it as a belief in a definition

I’m actually not that sure if it is a ‘mass advertising campaign’ or just their usual advertising level; I’ve just some Scientology ads on Youtube and I was wondering what other atheists felt about them. I know Christians don’t like them but I put that down to the same reaction that a used car salesman would have if another used car salesman set up business in his town. But as an atheist, does it anger you? Especially considering, from what I saw of the ads, they seemed to be targeting adolescents going through that awkward experimental, personality development stage so many of us go through? Does it remind you of vultures circling a battlefield, waiting for unguarded corpses to defile?

population, and the without the groundwork of antisemitism having been so firmly laid for centuries by both the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany?

I mean around the turn of the century, the Catholics in Germany were still propagating the “blood libel” nonsense about the Jews in their official newsletters and documents. This was also about the time that the Catholic church in Germany conducted the first “Don’t buy from Jews” campaign. Remember, that was all well BEFORE ******.