The Best Marketing Souls Can Buy
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Background Noise: Work piling up--it's loud
Random Thought: When did it become mid-November?
Mood: Going slowly crazy (See above, and above)
We all know that the world's oldest profession is one of loose legs and palms crossed with silver. But the oldest, least publicised marketing effort has taken center stage this year. Religion is nothing without followers, and the church is making a concerted effort to get you through the door. In times past, the threat of eternal damnation, plagues, and being ostricized from your town was enough to get people to hand over their cash and step into the light. But in a time of cynics and those pesky people who think that the idea of separation of Church and State actually means something more than words on paper, Jesus has to think big--and his marketing team is the best there is. They're getting 'em young--go see Jesus Camp for some of the most brainwashed kids I've seen since Children of the Corn, and they're keeping them through a marktet-savvy mix of razzle-dazzle and fuzzy logic. Is your teen ambivilent about going with God? Send them though the Haunted House, Jesus-style, where in scene one you see two men getting married, and in scene two you see them in the hospital dying of AIDS. Nice. I can only imagine what they act out for abortion. Then, when the whole family is with it, take them to the best amusement park around, The Holy Land Experience--see the Lord nailed to a cross every half hour while you much on funnel cake. Does it get any more fun that that?
Random Thought: When did it become mid-November?
Mood: Going slowly crazy (See above, and above)
We all know that the world's oldest profession is one of loose legs and palms crossed with silver. But the oldest, least publicised marketing effort has taken center stage this year. Religion is nothing without followers, and the church is making a concerted effort to get you through the door. In times past, the threat of eternal damnation, plagues, and being ostricized from your town was enough to get people to hand over their cash and step into the light. But in a time of cynics and those pesky people who think that the idea of separation of Church and State actually means something more than words on paper, Jesus has to think big--and his marketing team is the best there is. They're getting 'em young--go see Jesus Camp for some of the most brainwashed kids I've seen since Children of the Corn, and they're keeping them through a marktet-savvy mix of razzle-dazzle and fuzzy logic. Is your teen ambivilent about going with God? Send them though the Haunted House, Jesus-style, where in scene one you see two men getting married, and in scene two you see them in the hospital dying of AIDS. Nice. I can only imagine what they act out for abortion. Then, when the whole family is with it, take them to the best amusement park around, The Holy Land Experience--see the Lord nailed to a cross every half hour while you much on funnel cake. Does it get any more fun that that?
