Dear Twenty-Something-Church
Your promo “Hey Girl, I’m headed to — on Sept 20th…Save me a seat?” is very offensive to me.
Don’t get me wrong, I like many a ‘Hey Girl’ images on Pinterest, but using Ryan Gosling in your poster to attract twenty somethings to church, not only is in bad taste, but it really disgusts me
Church is not the lights, the music, the media, the talent, the hipsters, or even the well designed logo. (Which I am sure you are all well aware of and also know) Church is the community and the individuals who gather together to learn and discuss Christ. The relationship of Christ and the Church: which relates to each generation in it’s own way and each generation brings new aspects to it, is still the main reason and the foundation for any ‘Church’ to be established.
When you use ‘Ryan Gosling’ in your promotional ads for your church you are now making church about ‘sexual relationships’. Not God. Now I am thinking “boys…guys…men…sex… The Notebook….Maybe I’ll find a cute boy there…I’m tired of being single”
Above your ad on Facebook you have “Everybody will be there”.
I will not be going.
Not because I don’t want church, don’t need church or don’t like church with a group of people my own age, but because I don’t want to be a part of an organization that uses ‘sex icon’ movie stars as their hook to the Halifax Student population.
I will continue sharing my faith with my peers with respect and trust that God will allow my life to relate to them and not our mutual sex fantasies of Ryan Gosling.
Please rethink your ads. —Just a twenty-something Christian
This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2013.
Seriously? This just sounds like a pretty fresh, playful way to reel in some new fish. Not in a ‘Plenty of’ kinda way.
they need new recruits, coffers don’t fill themselves
Don’t tell me POF has migrated into the church, is nothing sacred anymore?
lolololololol
The Notebook? You church girls watch that shit on repeat don’t you.
who is ryan gosling? there’s a good Bermuda rum by goslings…..
speaking of drinking and sex, who shall be the first to make a ‘aw shucks, kids will be kids’ comment about the smoo let’s rape-em chant?
I always said Jesus Christ should have fired his PR people long ago.
Pffftttt…church could advertise they now have naked bitches and free drinks. Still wouldn’t be enough for me to sell out what I believe in!!!!
when I went to molok’ai i thought I might view father damiens church but when I attempted to step over the threshold, my toes started smokin’.
guess I haven’t been forgiven yet
I hope that doesn’t happen, GDM. That was foul.
The Church is deperate, OP. It’s as simple as that. There is a great Simpson’s superbowl ad for the Catholic Church, real good stuff.
Now I can’t stop thinking about mutual sex fantasies being played out by a bunch of uptight churchies. Cue Leonard Cohen soundtrack…
Well Cranky, here you go. Cleanse your troubled mind with visions of the anime sex fantasies played out in the mind of an uptight Ivan. I find this hot for so many reasons, most of them wrong.(and yes, unless you work for the Voice of Some Women it is SFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIY36UbDbQQ
Brendon-san. Major intel failure in not notifying me about this. I know you’re a man of few words, but really? Japanese schoolgirls AND tanks? Didn’t think Uncle Vanya might want to know about this?
SWEET ENOLA GAY!. It gets even better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9c8C2K-TtE
Organized religion has been court ordered to stay 500 yds. away from me at all times.
I will promise you that I will spin my head on my neck like a turbo dreidel before projectile vomiting low sodium cream of mushroom soup over any churchie who attempts to inflict their religious spasms on moi.
I call this ‘Extreme Flanderphobia’ – just as valid a condition as ‘Compassion Fatigue’.
So churches can’t use a famous person’s face to promote themselves? Better tell Tom Cruise
If it makes you feel better OP, just think of the scene in Drive where Ryan Gosling stomps a guys face into lasagna.
Yeah, but he stole that from Jimmy Cagney. Everyone thinks Jack Nicholson is so good, well he stole Jimmy Cagney’s film persona.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4R5wZs8cxI
BTW that was ad libbed, she was not expecting it.
You stole my thunder Molly, I was going to make a tasteless SMU remark regarding young girls and the church.
Quite the last couple of days, university rallies chanting the joys taking underage girls against their consent and hanging black person effigies at that furniture store that starts with L and rhymes with peons. Sorry, what century is this?
saw the effigy thing on the 6pm. I pictured a great parting of the red sea with extremes on either side. I keep telling myself it is just faster data, but it seems we are polarizing to extremes.
I have been pricing islands.
LOL – On the one hand, were it not for the preponderance of knuckle-dragging eedjuts, we wouldn’t appreciate the good ‘uns out there
On the other – we get it already.
It’s enough to turn a man into a Pro-Nuclear War activist. *troz*
Rethink your ads…?
It seems to me that if a spiritual arena needs ads at all then according to its own beliefs, they’re doing it wrong.
Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just going on what you guys told me.
Advertizing Church is nothing new. Remember this commercial? 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3aYJibxMOQ
Billy Connolly and his views on religion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xwPVgRaROA
“Every time there’s a bang, the world’s a wanker short”
Love it.
Haha I’ve only seen the first episode, Uncle Ivan, so I wasn’t sure if you’d enjoy it or not.
>: ). There are an estimated 7 Billion humans on this planet. 126 Million of them live in Japan.
To think that 1 person out of all that humanity could imagine schoolgirls watching anime “Kelly’s Heroes” as if it was “Twilight”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOyckUkVLQ
Whoever you are, you Magnificent Bastard, I want to shake your hand before I snuff it.
I don’t think Charles Manson made the cut for one of the 12 disciples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEfmSUQ_z4
ROFL. Hate to burst your bubble sweetheart, but church used to be one of the go-to places in the community to meet eligible spouses. Probably still is.
So what do you believe in Shultz? Crystals? Reincarnation? When you die there’s nothing? I’m curious at your take on life. I agree with you on one thing though, Stephen Harper is the devil.
Not everyone was lucky enough to meet their S.O. while she was doing the Anglerfish Dance
as the result of a lost bet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_iprZsNtg
I believe that bus drivers are overpaid, union entitled, douchebags!!!
Overpaid? Not fucking likely. If you could handle this job, which I am very certain you could not, you would think the exact same thing as we. Underpaid by at least 10.00 dollars an hour.
Listen up, Wheels, you dumb fuck. People don’t get assigned a salary by how much they hate their job. You just happen to hate a well paying job, and that’s no ones fault but your own. No one has a gun to your head forcing you to stay, so I can only assume that you get paid well enough to stay. I bet you are one of the guys at MT that people humour as you spew your misguided hatred and, as soon as you’re gone, they roll their eyes and mutter “idiot” under their breath.