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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 10:46 am
Ok, I like this video and it makes a lot of valid points. But, the issue here is the parents of children in America. My children have very limited TV access and what they do watch is commercial free. For this reason, they are not exposed to all of this insane marketing. But, even for parents that do allow their children to watch ads on TV, still, it's up to a parent to say NO and not purchase items just because a child asks for it.
What in the hell does this video have to do with ATHEISM or Secularism???? It has to do with poor parenting and overspending. And those qualities cross all religious backgrounds.
And did you just notice we celebrated Christmas? Billions of dollars were spent somehow, for some reason, in the name of Christmas. I don't know too many Atheists that went out and purchased an "atheist gift" for their family but Christians all over the world purchased "Christmas gifts." If anything, Christianity promotes this consumerism way more than Atheism.
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:14 am
Corpratism promotes the purchase of inane goods. Neither religion nor atheism nor secularism do. Corpratism attempts to invade all aspects of our lives, including belief. They want you to buy. Period. It doesn't matter to them "why" you buy.
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2011 at 11:19 am by Epimethean.)
Corporatism, as you wish to term it, proselytizes just as religion: Both are selling something. In the case of the former, you may get something you can use. In the case of religion, you get nothing.
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:21 am
That could be said of atheism as well ep.
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:25 am
Sure it is. It's selling lack of religious conviction.
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:29 am
(December 26, 2011 at 11:25 am)amkerman Wrote: Sure it is. It's selling lack of religious conviction.
Ok I'll bite.
There were after all the buses.
But theism has much more advertising going for it does it not.
It has 100s of tv channels devoted to it for a start. Has atheism any tv channels devoted to it?
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RE: How seculars are exploiting the youth
December 26, 2011 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2011 at 11:36 am by Epimethean.)
If anything, I think atheism sells a prompt to think. Religion is much more like corporatism, in that it hopes you will buy without thinking.
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