Superbowl Letdown

I wasn't all jazzed about the teams playing in the Super Bowl this year but I always watch for the ads. Well those we a huge disappointment weren't they? I think one stood out and that was this Dorito's ad.


What is the center of my post though is what I saw at church yesterday. Mike had us watch one of a very few banned ads from the Superbowl and I'll ask you to do the same.


If you watched that and were offended I am sorry, but I honestly cannot see why this was banned. We can watch filth like Maury Povich or watch Hugh Heffner and his house of half-naked bunnies but we can't air a commercial that suggests looking up what the meaning behind John 3:16, a popular verse often shown in the crowd at sporting events? If you head to the site even the design of it isn't controversial. You arrive and this is what you see, if you want to know more you can continue or if you read it and aren't interested you can go back about your day.

Now I would like to think that I am not a Bible beating self-righteous Christian and if that's the impression you get from what I am going to say then I am sorry but as a Christian I am going to stand up here. This is just asinine. Why can't we talk about religion publicly? Why can't I express my beliefs and listen to yours even if they differ, why can't we advertise God? I would never be offended by another religious group asking me to become interested in their practices. We all seem to shy away when politics come up but we can air their ads full of half-truths that smear people's reputations with lies and that's ok?

Last I checked Fox ran a show at one time called "Temptation Island" where couples lived on an island with a group of singles to test their relationships, and THIS ad was a no? Maybe Fox should have censored out the game winning speech given by Packer wide reciever Greg Jennings directly after the win too, … “To God be the glory. We’ve been a team that has overcome adversity all year, and now our head captain goes down. “(It was) emotional in the locker room. Our No. 1 receiver goes down. More emotions are flying in the locker room, but we find a way to bottle it up and exert it all out here on the field. To God be the glory.”