Answers in Genesis, everyone’s favourite creationist website (Creationists love it because it has some great arguments for a Biblical creation, while rational people like it becaust it’s just so darned funny!), has lashed out against the rising tide of godlessness in our society with a new advertisement for their “services”. I’ll leave you to look at it before I comment any further:
Seen it? Did you get chills down your spine when you saw that the gun was pointed at you? Ooh, yeah.
But what’s the problem with this ad, other than its inherent offensive quality? Well, just think about it. What did the ad say?
“If you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone.”
Okay, since when did fundamentalist Christians claim that you will ever “not matter” to God? I thought he loved us! He’s thinking about us! Even the atheists and the gays, God still loves them, even though he wants to throw them into a fiery pit forever! Where’s the love, God?
That’s not the only problem. Since when does being deemed valuable by God grant you the added bonus of getting other people on value you as well? It doesn’t seem to make sense.
I think the voice-over should have said:
“If God doesn’t matter to you, then no one matters to you.”
That would make more sense, considering that the kid is going to shoot someone (you!) and we assume that he’s a dirty atheist or a Christian who’s accepted the evil theory of evolution. This of course is assuming you can’t be good without God, which is patently false, because I don’t feel the need to steal my father’s (non-existent) revolver and point it at video cameras while wearing a white undershirt. Very often.
Of course, there’s another interpretation I would like to put forward for the ad, other than the boy being a non-creationist on a killing spree…
I propose that the kid is actually a hitman hired by Answers in Genesis to kill off the people who don’t agree with them. Doesn’t it make so much more sense? They’re threatening the people who aren’t creationists with death:
“If you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone. Therefore, if I shoot you, no one’s gonna care.“
Frightening stuff…
Religion has for a long time known that if you can't get people to follow your religion purely from belief, then the only options are to force them to or kill them.
I watched the show about the Inquisition last night (SBS TV) the whole inquisition was about power, those that didn't adhere to the catholic faith were either tortured until they converted, of killed (usually burnt at the stake). Looks like AIG are taking a leaf out of the inquisition book – kill all the godless heathens.
That was actually the first thing I thought . . . that it was a good lil' Christian kid dusting off the atheists.
Must have been the haircut. It reminded me of Children of the Corn.
The cleverness of Christian advertising is directly proportional to the hipness of Christian leaders. Ken Ham, for example, still thinks the Captain Ahab look is in.