Religious advertising - is it deceptive?

[I Am The Scum]

Do you think those adverts, ALLOWED by the standards for truths in advertising, are therefore truthful since they are obviously quite allowed?

Just because something is not true, it does not follow that it is deceptive... unless you attempt to impose ridiculous standards.

The "Most Interesting Man In The World," is not, in fact, the most interesting man in the world. This series of ads is totally full of lies, but I would not classify it as deceptive. Would you?

I feel the need to mention the concept of puffery^WP in advertising. While I don't wish to get into the finer legal points, I think the principle is a sound one.

In law, puffery is a promotional statement or claim that expresses subjective rather than objective views, which no "reasonable person" would take literally. Puffery serves to "puff up" an exaggerated image of what is being described and is especially featured in testimonials.

 

[I Am The Scum]

It's amusing to watch people try to separate The LORD'S Prayer from The LORD.

Does the green giant exist?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Does the green giant exist?

Do non sequiturs exist?

 

[The Big Dog]

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I suggest you read the thread.

I did! Humongous font!

Reads again....

Sky daddy sky daddy sky daddy repeat 25 times....

Ah no one!

Oh you.....

Have a blessed night!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's no such thing as "blessed".

And you won't read the thread, I see.

 

[I Am The Scum]

Do non sequiturs exist?

You seemed to make a big issue out of a nonexistent character being in the name. I'm wondering if you apply that to frozen vegetables.

I would think not, but it's your place to clarify.

 

[The Big Dog]

You seemed to make a big issue out of a nonexistent character being in the name. I'm wondering if you apply that to frozen vegetables.

I would think not, but it's your place to clarify.

There is a whole thread about whether Jesus existed (he did) let's not do that here, por favor!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You seemed to make a big issue out of a nonexistent character being in the name. I'm wondering if you apply that to frozen vegetables.

I would think not, but it's your place to clarify.

It's campaigning for that nonexistent character to have a role in my life. That's the problem, if you haven't noticed.

 

[The Big Dog]

It's campaigning for that nonexistent character to have a role in my life. That's the problem, if you haven't noticed.

Oh cripes, I feel for you bro, I had to suffer through the Hope Change stuff!

 

[Leumas]

You seemed to make a big issue out of a nonexistent character being in the name. I'm wondering if you apply that to frozen vegetables.

I would think not, but it's your place to clarify.

I am glad to see that you agree that the ill begotten son and his Jewish sky daddy and the jolly green giant are the same kind of imaginary sales logos devised to bamboozle people into buying stuff.



But here are some more appropriate corporate logos to which you might care to compare the Jewish Sky daddy and his ill begotten son.

From here

"Christ" as a corporate logo for this and that religious institution is a euphemistic fiction, not unlike Ronald McDonald, Mickey Mouse, or Joe Camel, the purpose of which is to get you to swallow a whole raft of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by an act of simple faith, short-circuiting the dangerous process of thinking the issues out to your own conclusions.​

You might also consider that the Jewish Sky Daddy and his ill begotten son are used to peddle just as an addictive and perniciously filthy killer product as the one which Joe Camel used to be allowed to deceive simpletons to buy... but it is now illegal to use Joe Camel to bamboozle children and simpletons... unlike Ronald McDonald who is still allowed to peddle unhealthy stuff to little children and simple minded adults who do not know how to control their base instincts.

It is ironic all this wrangling to defend something that is as deceptive and pernicious as Joe Camel's product... which goes to show that people who overcame their addictions and give up the product Joe Camel used to peddle, still enjoy secondhand WHIFFS OF SMOKE even if they no longer swallow entire fags.

 

[The Big Dog]

Again, who is the Lord?

When did the Lord Pray?

There is no evidence of any such thing as the LORD'S PRAYER.

In the NT, the character called the Lord could not have prayed.

It is deception to claim that the Lord in heaven Prayed when there has never ever been any evidence.

Asking people to make petitions to fiction character for daily bread, forgiveness of sins is blatant deception.





You have no points.

You cannot tell me what to write or what to ask!!!!

The Lord is a fiction character in the NT and did NOT actually pray in the myth fables called the Gospels.


It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have religious ads with known fiction--the Lord's Prayer.

The Lord has NEVER PRAYED!!!

went back through the thread to figure out why this thread got so wildly off base.

Folks, the "Lord" in "Lord's Prayer" is Jesus.

Very basic stuff here... less preaching anti-theists, more reading comprehension....

 

[The Big Dog]

From here.

infidels dot org.

lolz.

Seems legit. I enjoy when so called skeptics get their biases confirmed so much so that they bring it here to share with everyone.

 

[Darwin123]

Ok... yes many other companies have deceptive advertising!!!

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I was being ironic. I was arguing that the State Farm advertisement is not deceptive because it is generally understood not to be literally true.

God doesn't literally give us our daily bread. The supermarket literally gives me my daily bread. We all know that the farmer gives the supermarket their daily bread. So advertisements of the Lords prayer is not literally fraud.

 

[Leumas]

went back through the thread to figure out why this thread got so wildly off base.

Folks, the "Lord" in "Lord's Prayer" is Jesus.

Very basic stuff here... less preaching anti-theists, more reading comprehension....

The Christian claim that a peripatetic hoboing delusional fool who went around blathering about the nigh end of the world along 12 merry men with whom he used to have naked feet washing orgies, is A lord let alone THE lord is utter deceptions and pernicious lies.

The Christian claim that a blaspheming delusional moron who thought he was the ill begotten son of his sky daddy and that he was going to sit on a throne on his right hand after his BDSM session is concluded and he flies up to outer space on a cloud, is A lord let alone THE lord is utter deceptions and pernicious lies.

So whether the Lord, in the deceptive lies called the Lord's prayer, is the Jewish Sky Daddy or his ill begotten son, is utterly immaterial... it is still a deceptive claptrap just as I have explained in detail right here.

 

[The Big Dog]

The Christian claim that a peripatetic hoboing delusional fool who went around blathering about the neigh end of the world along 12 merry men with whom he used to have naked feet washing orgies, is A lord let alone THE lord is utter deceptions and pernicious lies.

The Christian claim that a blaspheming delusional moron who thought he was the ill begotten son of his sky daddy and that he was going to sit on a throne on his right hand after his BDSM session is concluded and he flies up to outer space on a cloud, is A lord let alone THE lord is utter deceptions and pernicious lies.

So whether the Lord in the deceptive lies called the Lord's prayer is the Jewish Sky Daddy or his ill begotten son is utterly immaterial... it is still a deceptive claptrap just as I have explained in detail right here.

Huh, that is a lot of words you just used to show that you don't understand the Holy Scriptures.

The Lord in Lord's Prayer is Our Savior Jesus Christ.

Jewish Sky Daddy... That is growing on me... I like that... sip!

 

[Leumas]

I was being ironic. I was arguing that the State Farm advertisement is not deceptive because it is generally understood not to be literally true.

God doesn't literally give us our daily bread. The supermarket literally gives me my daily bread. We all know that the farmer gives the supermarket their daily bread. So advertisements of the Lords prayer is not literally fraud.

I choose to think of the Lord or God or Jesus in the religious advertising to be more like these guys

From here

"Christ" as a corporate logo for this and that religious institution is a euphemistic fiction, not unlike Ronald McDonald, Mickey Mouse, or Joe Camel, the purpose of which is to get you to swallow a whole raft of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by an act of simple faith, short-circuiting the dangerous process of thinking the issues out to your own conclusions.​

At one time Joe Camel was a ubiquitous corporate logo used to entice and bamboozle simpletons into an addiction that would eventually harm them if not kill them while they fork out their hard earned money for it.

People wised up and decided that Joe Camel was a pernicious deception and thus it is better not to let him loose on hapless simpletons.

Unfortunately, religion's pernicious effects on the simple minds is not yet sufficiently recognized to be as pernicious as tobacco is now realized to be... hopefully one day enough people will carry on a campaign against the religion peddlers as they did against the drug and pernicious substances peddlers.

Unfortunately for now the ill begotten son and his Jewish sky daddy are still on par with Ronald McDonald.

They are still allowed to be the imaginary corporate advertising logos for the consumption of as a fake and deceptive and eventually pernicious product as fast FAKE food full of harmful additives to make it appealing to a population of simpletons who cannot control their base instincts.

 

[The Big Dog]

Snip dupe.

Bro, you literally just posted the same quote from the same idiotic propaganda site. Is spam their sacrament?

Our duplicate post, who art in spamming,
Holy cats he just posted it again.

It was a silly cite the first time.

 

[marplots]

Asking people to say a prayer riddled with fiction and falsely attributed to a non-existing Father in heaven must be deception.

It's not deception. It's 100% true. Millions of satisfied customers.

 

[Leumas]

It's not deception. It's 100% true. Millions of satisfied customers.

Same can be said for tobacco and cocaine... do you think their advertising campaigns to be truthful too? Do you think Joe Camel never deceived anyone?

 

[The Big Dog]

Same can be said for tobacco and cocaine... do you think their advertising campaigns to be truthful too? Do you think Joe Camel never deceived anyone?

And ice cream and comfy shoes! I say we should advertise those.

Jesus, ice cream, comfy shoes and spam. All equally yummy!