(September 20, 2010 at 3:14 pm)gargantuan Wrote: There's no such thing as bad publicity. See Sarah Palin.
I used to believe that and I sort of half-do these days, but does anyone honestly respect Sarah Palin? I mean, I'm sure there are those that do, but I mean does anyone refer to her as anything other than a joke?
Plus, M. Night Shamalon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (and a few other previous movies) recieved a lot of publicity for being a terrible movie. I mean, even if the terrible reviews themselves provide the motivation of more people to go see it, perhaps out of curiosity or some other reason, how is that at all beneficial to Mr. Shamalon or the movie?
I don't honestly see how this'll do anything other than fuel the problems that atheism already has in terms of PR amongst the general public.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
