Prompted by a visit to the 'edgy' bit of BE (wooo, be afraid ...).

You know the ones:

"I am a normal bloke, I love my family, Look at my shiny life, Now look at your Godless existence, I am not a religious nutjob, But if you don't believe what I do then you WILL go to hell. My name is Dave and I'm a mormon".

Has anyone got an executive summary? Is it worth it? They look so normal. Robotic but normal.

Hahha....interesting....no, I don't have an exec summary for you but we were talking about these very ads at work this morning! What is the point of them? I actually didn't think these sort of ads were allowed on Aussie telly....but I guess they are....I daresay they haven't prompted me to look at their website though....AND we also questioned why women would become or were Mormons, given their Hubbies (and not them) could be polygamous????

Still on the religious theme, our work discussion also led into the explosion of the ever popular 'Hillsong' crew.....a cult of sorts we believed...interesting all these things!

Have no problem with people with religion, I'm actually quite deeply anglican myself... Not that I ram it down peoples throats too often... Well I try not to, nothing worse than some one trying to sell you something you're not interested in..... Worse than double glazing salesmen.... Or time shares in spain... Or the you've been selected to recieve phone calls...

advertising on TV?????

that's odd.....

My life is shit sometimes because of stuff ups I make and coz sometimes life isnt fair.... You suck it up... Having a faith can help you suck it up if you're that way inclined... Other people have other coping mechanisms.... Each to their own.....

To imply that I have a great life because I have A religion is VERY odd...

just FMI.... Where is this edgy bit of BE????? I seldom venture out of the barbie, let alone out of Australia....

Speaking of the US, there are tons of religious adverts, perhaps not so much in metropolitan areas, but move out just a bit too far from the city lights and there you have it. Right in between mattress sale and benefits of regular colonoscopy.

We used to work in East Grinstead in the UK. It's the UK centre for Scientology AND has a Mormon temple. Mormons were the ones who came to the door in pairs, dressed in suits and spoke with American accents. Scientologists stopped you in the street to do surveys with questions like 'What do you think of a religion based on science?' or 'Do you speak to tomatoes?' and 'Do they answer?'

When they renovated the Mormon temple they held an open day day before it was re-dedicated or whatever they do. We went for a look. It was several storeys tall, no windows, with rooms for all sorts of things, teaching, resealing marriages, a laundry, and then on the top floor was the room that was only open to top Mormons. It was supposed to be their idea of the closest thing to heaven. It had a thick patterned carpet and chairs and other furniture in brand new antique style, all overly big and covered in a pale yellow patterned fabric.

I didn't mind the Mormons themselves, all very polite and never pushy. Just not quite normal. Much nicer than a lot of other religions. Personally I don't care for religion, but it can be fascinating.

Anonymous quote:
"Religion is like a penis. Its great to have one, and its great to be proud of it. But dont go whipping it out in public, and don't ram it down my kid's throats"

My hearing is not what it used to be and I thought the guy in the first ad I saw said I'm bla bla and I'm a moron.

Problem is the priests have been doing both.

So, to continue your analogy, this is why women are not allowed in the clergy?

There's a series on Foxtel at the moment called "Sister Wives", which is about polygamous marriage in America, very interesting. The husband is just about to marry his fourth wife.... I can't understand how these women are "ok" about it, I mean they're not over the moon, but I wouldn't be anywhere near ok with it even!

Imagine four wives nagging you!

Tidied.

And their time of months will line up.

Interesting that Australia are getting these adverts, They are on here in America, I had assumed they were on because of Mitt Romney running for president and the debate whether people would vote for a Mormon, but it seems to be more of a global campaign.