While I found a thread for holiday commercials, I didn't find any ones for commercials selling religious products. So this is the thread for commercials hawking Bibles, gospel music CDs, religious bookstores and radio stations, etc. If we don't got it, it ain't holy.

Every once in a while, I'll see a commercial where there's a beautiful woman who talks about how she has a great job, a wonderful husband, great kids . . . but she's not happy. It sounds like it's going to be a commercial for anti-depressants. But then it turns out that the proper treatment for her condition is the Bible! And you can call this number to get a free copy! In another variant of the commercial, a woman is telling her friend her problems. The friend gives her the Book of Mormon and says that it helped her solve all the problems in her life. I find these types of commercials weird for two reasons. First of all, does the Bible really need to be advertised on TV? I'm pretty sure that everyone already knows about it in some way and it is a perpetual bestseller. (The Book of Mormon is more obscure, so I can see why they would feel the need to advertise it). Second, I think the commercials equate depression with being spiritually unfulfilled, which is not neccessarily true. If someone has depression because of a chemical imbalance in the brain, they could probably read the Bible all day and it wouldn't help.

Oooh, neat thread. My favorite is the late night buy-a-packet-of-magic-water ads. They show people being healed by the water, give anecdotes of surviving cancer due to the magic holy water packet, and it only costs like, $29.95!

I was stunned out of my mind that these could exist, or that anyone would actually buy magic water. No matter what the pretenses, I can't imagine opening up a package and saying, "hooray! My water!!" Unless I was dying of thirst or something. Then it might be cool.

Oh my god, Miracle Spring Water. The infomercial is comedy gold -- I caught it at four a.m. one day and thought for sure I must have been half asleep, because the whole premise was just so ridiculous. If Hell actually exists, I'm sure there's a special spot down there for Peter Popoff.

According to Dante, the fraudulent end up Malebolge, in the eighth circle of Hell.

The commercial for the claymation Passion of the Christ seriously makes me want to get it. The hilarity would be well worth the price.

I remember an old Church of Latter Day Saints commercial with this little girl who steals a necklace or something. Then you hear the tinkly music of redemption through the Mormonism and someone sings "I feel so dark inside, I feel like I want to cry...." I haven't seen this commercial since I was in my teens but I still remember it clear as day. The song gets stuck in my head at random times.

I've seen the Spring Miracle Water ones, too. Insanity.

I have not seen this, but the first thing that came to mind was Mr. Bill. Ok, going to hell now. Heh.

My favorite Latter Day Saints commercial was when that annoying whiny kid asked, "What's the capital of North Dakota?" When I was a kid I could never figure out what that had to do with God.

Mine is the one showing a man in hs home office/den sitting at a desk strewn with paperwork. The voice-over asks: "Remember last week, you said that next week you'd spend more time with your family?" The man nods.
VO: "It's next week."

Read me a story?

I think this goes here, because I suspect the Religious Right is behind it....has anyone else seen the "new" Tostitos commercial? Well, about 2 months ago, Tostitos introduced a chip made w/ flour....to promote it's versatility as opposed to corn. So far, average commercial. It featured a dad explaining to his little girl why she should try them. She keeps asking "why?"(like any 3 year old), and he keeps explaining.

Here's the weird part, the first couple of weeks it ran, the final answer, the one that gets her to try the chip, is "so we can EVOLVE, and survive ..."(I am paraphrasing). OK, she eats the chip. Scene.

Suddenly, a few weeks later, the ad, exactly the same EXCEPT, now dad is explaining the goodness of eating these chips, and his final answer is, so we can DIVERSIFY, etc....

It's just creepy. I feel like there was backlash about EVOLUTION being mentioned, and Tostitos changed the ad. Neither ad would have even registered for me, if there wasn't this total and abrupt switch. Anyone else?

I haven't seen the commercial, but I have this image of some ad execs sitting around, going, "do you think the word "evolved" alienated our Christian consumers? Bill, tell me again, what percentage of Tostitos eaters have accepted Christ as their personal savior?"

But that's just me.

I just like the chips. They're really good! But yeah, the commercial sucks.

My question is this: Why would I buy a cd set of christian music, that all sounds the same? Especially if it makes me stand up, close my eyes,and wave my hands around randomly? I mean the TimeLife Songs4Worship series. And I hate that title, too.

Oh, but what about Worship Jamz, which is Kidz Bop for the Christian set? What an awful title.

THANK YOU..That reply has made my day:)

It's pretty weird either way, whether the chips are supposed to make you evolve OR diversify. (What does the latter even mean? How do I, as an individual eating chips, "diversify"?) Isn't it enough that they taste good and give you heartburn and diabetes?

...Sadly, my parents have the Songs4Worship CD. And they love it.

I don't know, if it's a choice between having my kids singing Worship Jamz and the usual Kidz Bop songs ("Genie in a Bottle," "Milkshake") I'd think the Worship Jamz would rob them of their innocence less.