How Come God Never Talks To Them?

I don’t know that I’d react negatively other than to not patronize their business. Free enterprise and all that jazz?

First of all, Joshua, I’m pretty sure Dawkins didn’t say “meaningless chance”, but if he had it would still be pretty funny if they were clever enough to use something like that.

Ugh, don’t they already have ads like that? (in reference to the “jesus is lord” billboard)

Interesting yet capitalistic spin. Don’t know that I would read too much into it, but then I rather doubt most New Yorkers will either. 

Might be a simple case of ‘be slightly controversial, and watch the ad be displayed all over the internet’.

The reason it has to do with the storage place is because they are insinuating that if Michelle Bachmann becomes Prez then you’d want to move.

The first one especially is completely non sequitur.  I don’t get any connection to self storage. It’s like saying “General Douglas MacArthur was kind of a narcissistic douche. Store your stuff in our facility.”

It’s like somebody pushed the Infinite Improbability Drive Button and got these statements linked with self storage instead of a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias.

Or perhaps, that the economy will worsen, you’ll lose your home, and put some things in storage while you’re in the (probably Christian-sponsored – *why* are we not addressing this?) homeless shelter, or on the strests…

Great advertising. nicely targeting.  If your looking for a connection between Bachman and mini storage it is you or more accurately we who find it interesting and therefore willing to propogate it. 

This is brilliant.  I used to have my stuff in storage at a place that always had some Christian slogan on their marquee, and they were more unintentionally funny than the worst ones you’ve seen on church marquees.  I was actually kind of sad when they got bought out and the messages ended. But I would have done business with this place instead in a heart beat. Sadly, no one else around here would, they’d be drummed out of business.

I have noticed a new self-storage place in the area with a huge sign. I mean huge. Not very interesting, but the sign dwarfs the nearby sign for Toys R Us. It’s ridiculous. Which makes me wonder, is there an increase in business at self storage facilities related to the down economy and the number of foreclosures? 

You do realize that not only do many businesses advertise that they are Christian and put Christian slogans on their signs, but many now even have “Christian” in their name and there are actually Christian groups that advocate only doing business with Christian companies?

 Also for at least one Christian dating service that advertises on TV … double ugh.

a) Most of us would kill for some free ad space to broadcast our political views as loudly as possible and get people thinking,
b) They were going to use the ad space anyway for their storage company,
c) Any publicity is god publicity,
d) The company owners have now publicly aired their political views while also maximizing their company’s exposure.

Where’s the bad?
And as for the converse, yes I would probably boycott a company that uses their ad space to broadcast political views I strongly disagree with, but then again I don’t live in Texas or Alabama and I’m not their target audience. I think calling Michele Bachmann an idiot is a safe bet among New Yorkers, statistically.

haha. Any publicity is GOOD. Freudian slip.

Yeah ok. You and Yurack make valid points. I think living in the North East makes me blind to how much of this crap there is everywhere else in the US. (I suppose I should be more aware of this given how shocked I was when I was in Florida and saw multiple Confederate flags. That was traumatizing. ) That said, I don’t think this is an argument for atheists to do the same thing.