WTF, Commercial?

[fenderlove]

There's a carpet retailer in here in Tennessee that has, for years, used little children spouting "Made in the USA" catchphrases and waving cheap plastic flags in their commercials. Well, now they've hit upon a new gimmick- claiming that their carpet was made "by the Heavenly Father." *head-desk* I sorta want to go into their business and demand that their carpet better not only be resistant to wine spills but should turn water into more wine to refill my glass.



There are a lot of businesses around here that use the tactic of claiming to be a "Christian business," but they are the ones most likely to cheat and gouge their customers. I told one fellow who owned such an establishment (that had improperly installed tires to my mother's van and then refused to fix it), "I wouldn't care if you said you were a Satanic business as long as you did the job correctly!" He acted like I had slapped him and then got all holy-roller on me for "daring" to mention the "S-word" (No, Mr. Connery, that's not swords. :D) in his Christianly business.

Of course, I had the lady who owns the local Christian bookstore throw a loaf of bread at my face in Wal-Mart because she said that my Greek Orthodox cross was a "mark of the Beast" and that I was "one of the damned!" I don't know why I didn't just walk away, but I tried to explain to her to calm her down.

Me: No, it's just an Eastern Orthodox cross.
Her: Eastern? *gasps* Terrorist!
Me: It's Eastern Orthodox Catholicism.
Her: *starts wringing her hands and shouting* CATHOLIC DEVIL! DEMON! DEMON!

God, I hate this place so much. One of these days, I'm going to go to the print shop and have a small yard sign made that reads "ZEUS" in big bold san-serif letters to combat the huge amount of "JESUS" signs that people have in their yards. Yes, neighbours, Jesus is going to care more about a useless plastic sign in your yard than the fact that you treat others like garbage.

Comments

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Huh? Really? I mean, you're not making this up? Geeze Louise!

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Omg that sound awful. Some folks need to look around them and realsie there's a whole big new shiny world out there and not everything revolves around their god.

[evenstar-estel.livejournal.com]

OH America, you're so good for LOLs. Parts of you are SO awesome and yet parts of you are so ludacris and pathetic it makes my head ache.

And you're right, and I've experienced it - some of the most devout 'Christians' are usually the ones who are the least Christ-like!

[paratti.livejournal.com]

You really have to get out of there to somewhere sane.

[shakensilence.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of the Zeus sign... that is just perfect. The sad thing is it would likely have such drastic negative consequences for you, you could never seriously do it. Or I'd say don't joke about it, just do it and see what happens. But you live in the Bible belt... sorry about that. I can only imagine how frustrating that is for you. I'd never survive in the bible belt as an atheist... I'd be drawn and quartered before you could sneeze.

[weinerdogsmama.livejournal.com]

That's the Bible Belt for you. I think you could get away with the Zeus sign...most people probably wouldn't get it.