Blasphemous?
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- bigbaby53
I came up with a tagline for an ad I'm doing for a medical clinic. It's Christmas themed ad and the tagline reads...O Come, All Ye Painful.
Some folks in the office thought it was blasphemous. What do you guys think?
- ********0
I like it
- ********0
I didn't know christmas carols were considered god's direct revelation
- bigbaby530
thx rand
- Mimio0
It's a humorous play on it. Not the first parody of a Christmas carol to appear in an advertisement either.
- czawada0
You should run that by gramme first.
- detritus0
I think some folks in the office need to get over themselves - it's a clever line and God himself put it into your head. It's meant to be.
- TheBlueOne0
OS you got genuine God Warriors in the office eh?
SATAN!! YOU'RE CARRYING THE MARK OF SAAAAATAN!!!
- bigbaby530
LOL...ahhh - fuck 'em! I like it!
- bigbaby530
Yeah...I'm in Memphis, TN...Kinda the buckle of the bible belt ya know.
- ********0
are you really a big baby?
- PonyBoy0
Christmas supposedly celebrates the birth of Christ, thus the birth of Christianity...
... 'oh come all ye faithful...'
'faithful' refers to those who put their faith in Christ...
... so yeah... I can see where the die hard would cry a few rivers... I'd expect a lil bit of silliness such as you're already hearing...
... BUT... if the person is 'smart' and they're die hard... they're realize it's for a medical center... and that people are going for help...
... AND!!! (this is a plus for you and something you can use to argue with):
Christ came to take away our pain!!
So you're dead-on accurate w/the terminology if you want to be technically sub-savvy in terms of Christ's purpose... thus making your slogan 'accurate'... thus making EVERYONE HAPPY!!!
... which I doubt will occur... anytime you 'screw' w/someone's faith (and changing their songs of faith is dong just that)... people whine.
This was long... GO RED SOX!
- gramme0
I wouldn't say it's blasphemous. Poor taste maybe, but not blasphemous. Blasphemy by definition would be saying something like "Jesus is the son of the devil."
I was once asked to design an ad with the headline "Blessed are the cheap, for they will inherit the earth."
I respectfully declined.
- TheBlueOne0
O Come All Ye Painful
bandaged and enfeebled,
O come ye, O come ye to Our [Insert Healthcare Product Here].
Come and behold It,
Made somewhere inChina;
O come, let us dose You,
O come, let us dose You,
O come, let us dose You,
[Insert Healthcare Product Here].
- Point50
fuck it
change it to:
"Oh cum, a big faceful..."and sell it to a porn site. any of who get offended by that need to check themselves for being on a porn site in the first place
- Point50
"Blessed are the cheap, for they will inherit the earth."
gramme
(Oct 24 07, 15:04)
---how long do I have to wait?
- TheBlueOne0
Blessed are the cheesmakers?
- gramme0
PonyBoy has a point. Or is it Point5 has a pony? I get confused.
- PonyBoy0
hehe!
- gramme0
The other ad in the campaign read "I have a cheap dream!"
– w/ illustration of "black man who may or may not be MLK Jr."
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I'm sure you people would consider that to be in poor taste.
Then again, epill did go on a kick where he was linking pics of Jesus in a bra...so maybe nothing phases you guys.
- detritus0
Then again, epill did go on a kick where he was linking pics of Jesus in a bra...so maybe nothing phases you guys.
gramme
(Oct 24 07, 15:13)You weren't really insulted by that, were you? Goodness, I thought you guys weren't supposed to idolise images?