Want some trouble? Do a religious ad in the style of the “I’m a Mac” ad
I noticed the title on this Unofficial Apple Weblog post - Think Christian: Parodies of the Mac/PC commericals from Community Christian Church - and without bothering to read it began wondering what sort of ads one could do.
If you haven’t seen the “I’m a PC/I’m a Mac” ads, get yourself educated over at Apple’s site. Sure, we’ll wait.
OK, and now imagine doing a few of those for different religions. Or subsections of same. White sheet, infinite horizon background, two people in medium close-up.
Such as:
- I’m a Christian/ I’m a Muslim.
- I’m a Catholic / I’m a Protestant
- I’m a Christian / I’m a Buddhist
- I’m a Christian / I’m Richard Dawkins
My toes are tingling already. You could properly offend people with this sort of thing. Why, even putting up this post will probably be some sort of thoughtcrime under the government’s proposed legislation outlawing religious hatred. I wonder if Rowan Atkinson will visit me in jail?
I suspect this is a meme that is going to end up.. being made.
(Sure, you’re all going to point me to examples where someone’s scripted these and put them on YouTube, eh?)
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December 20th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I wish I was either (a) time rich enough in time to script and film all of these or (b)cash rich enough to commission them. Meantime, this link to the opening of the Penn & Teller Bullshit! should be enough to get some fundamentalist crazies trying to bring your site down: http://youtube.com/watch?v=G2kbE5sXF6g
December 20th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Ah but the Christians have got there first: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQaIPUDOhI4
December 20th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Oh dear: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JZnr6Yj3s30