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So, the "You can be good without God" bus ads are up, rolling around Bloomington as we speak. That's pretty hip.
There are counter-ads too! "You can be good without God, but you cannot be saved without Jesus". I find that an odd point to concede; if I recall, Mere Christianity makes the argument that you have a sense of "evil" because there must be some objective, world-wide morality. And this clearly implies the existence of that YHWH cat. At a more abstract level, surely most theists would say that you can't be anything at all without God, let alone good.
If I were the advertising person in charge of the counter-ad, I think I would have picked something else to put on the bus. You can be good, but, importantly, you can still burn for all eternity. That just invites awkward questions. One wonders who the target audience is? Non-observant cultural Christians who haven't thought about it much, but are still be a little scared of not being saved? Does fear of damnation still sell? Or do you even read the ads in that light?
Most interesting part of all: Lindsey doesn't find the bus-advert situation particularly interesting. There are almost certainly more important things to think about, but I still occasionally get worked up about this sort of thing.
There are counter-ads too! "You can be good without God, but you cannot be saved without Jesus". I find that an odd point to concede; if I recall, Mere Christianity makes the argument that you have a sense of "evil" because there must be some objective, world-wide morality. And this clearly implies the existence of that YHWH cat. At a more abstract level, surely most theists would say that you can't be anything at all without God, let alone good.
If I were the advertising person in charge of the counter-ad, I think I would have picked something else to put on the bus. You can be good, but, importantly, you can still burn for all eternity. That just invites awkward questions. One wonders who the target audience is? Non-observant cultural Christians who haven't thought about it much, but are still be a little scared of not being saved? Does fear of damnation still sell? Or do you even read the ads in that light?
Most interesting part of all: Lindsey doesn't find the bus-advert situation particularly interesting. There are almost certainly more important things to think about, but I still occasionally get worked up about this sort of thing.
