Just in time for Easter: Church billboards with mean messages signed by Satan.

[LiberalHeart]

This church is large and growing larger, with a reputation for being hip. Ah, the marvels of modern marketing:

http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/04/just-in-time-for-easter-church.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Satan may have a point here. n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

2. satan should sue for defamation of character!

:silly:

[Solly Mack]

3. alrighty then

[Berry Cool]

4. I remember this local Baptist church where I grew up

that at one time had this man dressed as a devil picketing outside on Sunday mornings, with signs saying things like "This Church Is Unfair to Sin!" We used to see him driving by on the way to our own church. It was actually pretty funny.

[LiberalHeart]

5. Shhh....you'll give the Toledo church an idea....

(you're right; it is funny)

[Sequoia]

14. I remember our preacher

sometimes saying how the devil would "like to see this place closed down." Then all us quasi-orphans would have to go elsewhere.

[ClintonTyree]

6. The marketing of religion....

hey, after all, it IS a big business, why not start marketing it like one? As in all businesses the goal is to increase profits, so a slick marketing campaign is a MUST if they're to expand the market and increase sales. How much did those billboards cost? What COULD have been done with that money to do "god's work"? :eyes:

Another reason to start taxing churches. If they're going to market it like a business, tax it like a business.

[spoony]

7. Charities have billboards too

I guess we shouldn't exempt them either right?

fwiw, the billboards are funny.

[ClintonTyree]

11. Perhaps, where you live....

but I've never see any "charity" flooding an area with billboards like this church is doing where I live. Maybe it's a regional thing? :shrug:

[spoony]

13. On my drive to the grocery today I passed three

One for the Red Cross about donating blood, one for a local school benefit initiative, and one I'd not seen before for an HIV/AIDS group (I didn't catch the name of the group, it was a picture of a group of people--a "from all walks of life" sort of thing--with a caption "We all have HIV").

You don't have such things around you?

[ClintonTyree]

15. Not that I've seen....

but it sounds like you might live in an urban or suburban area. I live in a medium sized town but even on my way into the nearest city I don't recall seeing any billboards like that. I'll make it a point to look from now on though. Maybe they're there and I just haven't noticed. :shrug:

Still, I think mass advertising for a specific church is tacky, if not downright wrong. I've always noticed how much money god needs though, he can't seem to get a grip on his finances. ;)

[spoony]

16. Oh, it's tacky, no doubt about that!

Mildly amusing though, at least they are trying to buck the traditional idea of evangelical humourlessness.

[lectrobyte]

17. And I sure don't see charities putting up pro-War signs and handing

out "voting guides" like some of the chuches do here in North Carolina.

[TZ]

10. I always enjoy driving by the church near my house..

that is topped with a neon cross! Way classy guys!

[TommyO]

18. One of my favorite churches

featured a statue of Mary backed up by a blue neon cross. I haven't driven past it in years since I don't work in that area now, but will have to revisit "Our Lady of the Neon Cross" soon.

[greenman3610]

8. this gives context to the "chocolate Jesus"

perfect example of marketing God as
a consumer good.
soul as one more confection.

[Neshanic]

9. I got one for the billboard. "Our Pastor likes long camping trips with young men".

That should pack them in.

[WCGreen]

12. How cute.......