I thought that they represented well the common perception about evangelical/fundamentalist Christians from the standpoint of those outside the camp. If they were aired (not sure how serious I was about that) but they would have to be seen as coming from Christians. That way others would recognize that we see these same type of problems (know-it-all, do-it-my-way) in the church and that the church is not really this way in essence. Hope this makes sense.

BTW: I would not say that emergers are anti- Christian by any means. That is a very strong statement. For one, emergers are not unified. For another, you would have to identify the aspect of their practice or beliefs that is anti-Christian before you label them as such. I would take a more irenic tone about this if I were you. If there is one thing that is certain in a postmodern world, polemics does not get you very far.

Also, didn’t you know that The Theology Program moved to http://www.reclaimingthemind.org. It is no longer officially represented at bible.org.

I am not an Emergent nor am I emerging. I am an emerging (adjective form) Christian. In fact I am very new to Christianity and the first thing I ran across after my rebirth was a place called Bible.Org where they had a series of instruction called The Theology Program. I have been taking the courses as time permits and have made it through the Trinity. SO, as you can see I have extremely limited knowledge.

The other thing that needs saying is that I am and have been a political activists most of my life, certainly much longer than I have been a Christian. My nom de Plume on the net was John Galt and that should give you a clue to where I was politically and spiritually.

To the point or more appropriate a question. Why, Michael, would you want these videos aired and why specifically on Fox

This commercial does something that is extremely common among christian (or Christian-follower, makes no difference here): Rip of a secular idea and modify it for christian consumption. No originality whatever.

I agree Nathan. It is really silly to me to call the “bad” guy simply “Christian.” Maybe fundie or even evangelical, but to take a somewhat neutral term such as “Christian” and make it bad is not really hitting the spot if you know what I mean. Still, they were really funny.

BTW: I am getting it for the commercial insinuating that U2 is not Christian. Sigh…

Michael

Well, I guess I see what the emerging chruch is saying. But as far as I’m concerned, “Christian” and “Christ-follower” are saying the same thing.

The dorky guy playing the Christian is obviously not how I want to be portrayed. But I have no problem calling myself a “Christian” or “Christ-follower”.

I could go on about this, but for the sake of brevity I will hold.

Semper Reformanda, Baby!

U2 rocks!

Those are great commercials, they really follow the PC/Mac commercials well. It