November 12, 2008
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A Michael Jackson Song Popped Into My Head …
Not surprisingly there’s already been a ton of commentary about this new ad campaign. If you’ve haven’t heard of it this is basically what it is:
So yeah, tons of Christians are commenting about what the American Humanist Association is doing. The Fox 5 News byline was pretty interesting so I ended up watching the whole 10pm news hour only to find out that they were going to talk about it on their News EXTRA segment at 11pm. Man did I feel duped. Anyways, I digress.
Personally, I do have issues with it from different angles. First, a random person would see it and say “Yeah, I don’t need a god. Am I am good enough.” (No inserting any Stuart Smalley sayings) Besides it being misleading to non-Christians and even potentially harmful to young/less mature Christians who would not take the time to look further into the question. Beyond that, I find the ad laughable. Mostly because they’re equating “a god” to a picture/image of Santa Claus. You know Santa, the guy when you rearrange his name spells … SATAN. (Man, I’m on some SNL kick)
Do we really see Santa as “a god”? I think not.Either way, it really shows how ignorant the AHA is (and their name is a tad laughable too) because we don’t serve a god, we serve THE God. (Maybe they’re going for an attack against a polytheistic religion.) But I will say they do bring up a good question:
Do we do acts of good will because we are told to or because we live changed lives?I hope most say because we live changed lives.
