The Gruen Transfer - The Pitch: Banning all ReligionFollow

Ads for Banning all Religion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAKzYr4-wg

It's funny that an advertising show is having a contest for ads whose purpose is to convince (who?) to ban free-thinking.

Is the show always this stupid, or is dissing religion simply the 'in' thing to do these days?

Man, I couldn't see ANY atheist groups doing this. No way, atheists don't advertise (and neither do churches, amirite?)! I guess you don't live in an area of the world where you drive by religious billboards or see religious commercials daily. Must be nice.

The audience is pretty obvious: attempt to persuade people to leave religion. Some folks make being anti-religion their religion.

Lucky. Every day I pass by this billboard:


It's pretty inoffensive, but I bet it would **** off a hardcore atheist. Hence why I would have no problem believing an atheist group would fund a commercial like those on here. I don't think they'll work necessarily, but when people define themselves by a specific belief, they tend to let reason go out the window.


Yep, and I'm just being antagonistic because I'm an Annoying *** (TM)

Edit: Actually, I think the billboard I see has the same quote attributed to Hebrews 9:27, not Revelation. Details.

Edited, Sep 8th 2011 9:33am by LockeColeMA

I think they should have gone with a more subtle mind-control type message that didn't use the word 'ban'.

As someone who is a member of a group which is targeted with hateful actions via organized religion, I applaud any attempt to wake people out of their opiate stupor.

Gonna guess Planned Parenthood.

lolgaxe wins the quiz!



Um, did you watch the commercials? I don't see anything hateful here.

What part was hateful? The part where they talked about the history of bad ideas? The part in the other one where they (rightly) pointed out religion is a source of hatred and conflict?

I didn't see anything hateful in these commercials so perhaps you could enlighten me.

Edited, Sep 8th 2011 10:44am by Olorinus

Well, in general just churches who propagate gay hate. I could have named some but they wouldn't mean anything to people here. Westboro works.

Billboards I pass frequently:

GIANT YELLOW BILLBOARD - One side says "Jesus" the other side says "Coming soon!" This one pisses me off the most, because it's been there for over a decade. I think it's owned by the car dealership whose property it sits on.

All those "Witty quote here - God" billboards. All of them. All along the same 30 mile stretch of road. Argh.

Hundreds of billboards advertising churches, a few of them with warnings to the heathen college students, but most of them rather inoccuously advertising the church or Christianity in general.

I can't recall ever seeing an advertisement for the town's mosque or synagogues.

Airline pilot!

I have no problem believing that an atheist group would fund such a commercial as well. I think what Elinda is getting at though is that there's a huge difference between expressing your own beliefs, which others may not agree with, and advocating for the banning of beliefs which you don't agree with.

One is an expression of free speech. The other is an advocation of infringement of free speech. It shouldn't matter which sides beliefs one happens to agree with to see that difference.

My wife told me about a billboard in the Lincoln tunnel last year. Something about the three Wise Men and the manger scene, and the caption on it was something along the lines of "It's a myth. This season celebrate reason." I wish I had seen it, it sounds like an amusing waste of money, equal to any pro-religious billboard.