Brilliant Australian Ad Shows a Crucified Jesus Becoming an Organ Donor

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Jesus said he'd do it. So what's Lion's problem? Selfishness?

Shame, shame, Lion, Jesus knows your name.

Lion, are you an organ donor?

 

[Lion IRC]

I'm a registered organ donor, sure.
But the issue is whether it was a marketing master stroke to trivialise Calvary in order to win hearts and minds.

 

[Underseer]

I'm a registered organ donor, sure.
But the issue is whether it was a marketing master stroke to trivialise Calvary in order to win hearts and minds.

Of course. Jesus wouldn't want you to do something good in his name because Jesus uses Christian "morals," doesn't he?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

I'm a registered organ donor, sure.
But the issue is whether it was a marketing master stroke to trivialise Calvary in order to win hearts and minds.

Religion itself is a marketing master stroke. Using the religious method to make the planet a more peaceful place hardly seems to be a knock on religion. In fact it seems to be exactly what religion at it's best would wish for.

Does your religion have a purpose or does it not? If it's only purpose is to keep having more religion then it's dead on the vine.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I'm a registered organ donor, sure.
But the issue is whether it was a marketing master stroke to trivialise Calvary in order to win hearts and minds.

Of course. Jesus wouldn't want you to do something good in his name because Jesus uses Christian "morals," doesn't he?

Hearts? Minds?

They say they already won plenty of hearts and minds, what they need is registration, and informing the medical proxies of the consent to donate.

So, the ISSUE would be whether registrations are going up, as well as conversations.

Somehow i am sure Lion could provide "the stats" on the issue. Not sure if anyone would accept them, though...

 

[Keith&Co.]

A "Christian Nation' website reports that there is a petition to stop this ad.

https://www.acl.org.au/organ_donation



The petition claims the ad "offends our nation." But they've only gotten about 5800 signatures on the petition.

So either Australia isn't really a Christain nation, or the bulk of the Christains who are in Aus have a sense of humor... As a great man once said, "We don't like stuck-up, sticky-beaks here.'

I would like to see how this petition's patticiipation stacks up against new registrations, though.

They claim that 'many' have been moved to withdraw their registration. I'd like to know how many in 'many.'

 

[bilby]

A "Christian Nation' website reports that there is a petition to stop this ad.

https://www.acl.org.au/organ_donation



The petition claims the ad "offends our nation." But they've only gotten about 5800 signatures on the petition.

So either Australia isn't really a Christain nation, or the bulk of the Christains who are in Aus have a sense of humor... As a great man once said, "We don't like stuck-up, sticky-beaks here.'

I would like to see how this petition's patticiipation stacks up against new registrations, though.

They claim that 'many' have been moved to withdraw their registration. I'd like to know how many in 'many.'

I would guess that they can be counted on the fingers of one foot.

 

[ruby sparks]

"When Christ died, He took our heart of stone and gave us His heart of flesh (Ezekiel 11:19). Without that transplant, we would be dead to God and eternally condemned; with it, we have life eternal. We should feel free to follow Christ's example and give up the perishable body to help another."

https://www.compellingtruth.org/Christian-organ-donation.html

 

[Lion IRC]

A "Christian Nation' website reports that there is a petition to stop this ad.

https://www.acl.org.au/organ_donation



The petition claims the ad "offends our nation." But they've only gotten about 5800 signatures on the petition.

So either Australia isn't really a Christain nation, or the bulk of the Christains who are in Aus have a sense of humor... As a great man once said, "We don't like stuck-up, sticky-beaks here.'

I would like to see how this petition's patticiipation stacks up against new registrations, though.

They claim that 'many' have been moved to withdraw their registration. I'd like to know how many in 'many.'

Why do you think that willing organ donors can't simultaneously oppose this ad on the grounds that it offends their religion?

 

[bilby]

A "Christian Nation' website reports that there is a petition to stop this ad.

https://www.acl.org.au/organ_donation



The petition claims the ad "offends our nation." But they've only gotten about 5800 signatures on the petition.

So either Australia isn't really a Christain nation, or the bulk of the Christains who are in Aus have a sense of humor... As a great man once said, "We don't like stuck-up, sticky-beaks here.'

I would like to see how this petition's patticiipation stacks up against new registrations, though.

They claim that 'many' have been moved to withdraw their registration. I'd like to know how many in 'many.'

Why do you think that willing organ donors can't simultaneously oppose this ad on the grounds that it offends their religion?

Of course they can.

But opposing anything done by others, on the grounds that 'it offends my religion' is fundamentally dickish behaviour, and should neither be encouraged nor accounted for when choosing what to do or how to behave.

You already know this. You do loads of things that could be offensive to various religions; But you don't feel any need to worry for a moment about this, because you know that their religion is wrong to proscribe those behaviours that you engage in.

You don't eschew bacon to avoid offending Jews or Muslims. You don't become a vegetarian to avoid offending Hindus. You cut your hair and shave your beard without once worrying that Sikhs might be put out abkut it, and you don't keep Friday and Saturday holy, nor fast during Ramadan.

Offending religion is a perfectly reasonable and moral thing to do. Because religions are wrong.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Why do you think that willing organ donors can't simultaneously oppose this ad on the grounds that it offends their religion?

Not sure where i made a claim that they are mutually exclusive.

The author(s?) Of the petition claim that 'many' Christains are showing their protest against the ad by withdrawing their registration. But then, those self-important bitches are no longer 'willing organ donors,' are they?
They are opposing actual donation, rather than opposing the ad. Cutting off up to seven people to spite someone else's face.

 

[ruby sparks]

Surely the point is that if he were alive today, Jesus would have approved of organ donation.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Surely the point is that if he were alive today, Jesus would have approved of organ donation.

Depends. A number of my relatives believe their body must be whole in order to be resurrected on Judgment Day.

Like the king who was beheaded, and wanted his head sewn up inside his chest so he could find it at the time.

They won't countenance donation, cremation, and they're not big on plastic surgery that cuts anything off.

At yhe age of nine, i disinvited myself to a reunion by asking an uncle if that meant no one in that branch of the family was circumsized....

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Surely the point is that if he were alive today, Jesus would have approved of organ donation.

The nice thing about jesus religion is you get to invent whatever kind of jesus you want. It's all approved by jesus.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Surely the point is that if he were alive today, Jesus would have approved of organ donation.

Why wouldn't he just heal the organs which are already in sick people? Seems like kind of a waste of time to go through all the trouble of a transplant if you have a divine cure available.

 

[phands]

This isn't the first time someone has used the fictional crucifixion to market something.....



(Yes, I know it's a parody, but it's damn funny).

If jebus had ever existed, I wonder what he would have done about Nail sellers....

 

[Keith&Co.]

If jebus had ever existed, I wonder what he would have done about Nail sellers....

I really doubt that's even on his radar.

Even when I believed, I wondered about the choice of the Cross as a symbol. I mean, Jesus offered eternal life, forgiveness, free wine. They picked the thing he was nailed to at the moment his faith faltered.
Why not the stone that rolled back from the grave? A shepherd's crook?

Half a nation walking around carrying or wearing or hanging out under symbols of his execution method, and someone wants to ask if they can sell merchandise in his name? LEAST of his concerns...

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm a registered organ donor, sure.
But the issue is whether it was a marketing master stroke to trivialise Calvary in order to win hearts and minds.

Would Jesus value his PR optics over the good being provided? Should his followers do so?

If there actually is a Jesus sitting in Heaven, I bet he's getting a chuckle over it.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

If jebus had ever existed, I wonder what he would have done about Nail sellers....

I really doubt that's even on his radar.

Even when I believed, I wondered about the choice of the Cross as a symbol. I mean, Jesus offered eternal life, forgiveness, free wine. They picked the thing he was nailed to at the moment his faith faltered.
Why not the stone that rolled back from the grave? A shepherd's crook?

Half a nation walking around carrying or wearing or hanging out under symbols of his execution method, and someone wants to ask if they can sell merchandise in his name? LEAST of his concerns...

To paraphrase George Carlin, "If I'm Jesus and I come back seeing my followers idolizing the instrument of my torture, I'm gonna be pissed!"

 

[skepticalbip]

And here I am still trying to decide if I should follow the path of the gourd or the path of the sandal - knowing that the wrong choice will send me straight to hell.