Are you seeing this TV ad? Christian cellular service????

[AnnInLa]

Have been seeing this TV commercial a lot recently advertising a Christian cellular service. Their website is www.callhope.com, but the website doesn't tell much about who they really are, but the company behind them is Christian Media Technologies. Googled them and came up with some very interesting reading...one of the articles is at www.technologyreview.com//articles/04/03/wo_jenkins030504.asp (you might have to register with a phony name, email, etc) Anyway, anyone know what in hell this is all about? Something scary, I'd guess. Here's a snippet from the above website, technologyreview:


Call it the Christian Counterculture. Rather than rejecting popular culture outright, a growing number of Christians are producing and consuming their own popular media on the fringes of the mainstream entertainment industry. Still others are gathering in church basements and living rooms to promote their own brand of media literacy-seeing commercial culture as a "window" into the culture of unbelievers. What we see here is consistent with what media scholars have found within other subcultural communities-a desire to make and distribute your own media and the desire to challenge and critique mainstream media.

While many Christians have felt cut off from mass media, they have been quick to embrace new technologies-such as videotape, cable television, low-wattage radio stations, and the Internet-that allow them to route around established gatekeepers. The result has been the creation of media products that mirror the genre conventions of popular culture but express an alternative set of values.

[freetobegay]

1. Is this how we get a direct line to God?

[blackcat77]

4. "Canst thou hear Me now?"

[AnnInLa]

6. That's too funny!

[Momgonepostal]

7. LOL! nt

[mondo joe]

8. Balaam's Talking Ass as mascot? Or "No man can have two

Oh what else...

Balaam's Talking Ass as mascot?

Or "No man can have two long distance masters" as a tagline?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. The "hide from the world" Christian subculture has always

copied what happens in the mainstream and changed it to suit their needs. Rock music, romance novels, cell phone services, news telecasts.. whatever.

Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

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3. OR - "How to use Jesus as a marketing tool"

Why not call it Hypocrite Wireless.

[Shoeempress]

5. So thats what means WWJD (Who Would Jesus Dial)

[Malva Zebrina]

9. I once saw an ad for people to adopt kittens

but the qualification was that they had to go to a Christian home.

[nosmokes]

10. call 1-800-666-AMEN