Gee I..I wonder why.
Here was Creationist Ken Ham's take on the commercial:
So the Carnival Cruise Corporation decided to use the voice of John F. Kennedy from his speech to be the voiceover for stunning images to entice people to take one of their cruises.
The advertisement is being called the “Come Back to the Sea” spot, as the Carnival Corporation wants to supposedly “create a personal connection with consumers.”
Don’t you just feel this “personal connection?” After all, your ancestor came out of the sea and evolved by natural processes to produce you. Don’t you feel the connection? Don’t you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings—and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!
Oh—and really, you can spend a lot of money on such a cruise, but because you evolved from the sea and are just an evolved animal, and when you die you won’t even know you existed—so you won’t even remember the cruise—so what’s the point anyway? You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!
So we have Neil deGrasse Tyson in his cosmos series telling us we are all stardust—we are children of the stars.
And the Carnival Cruise Corporation telling us we all came from the sea.
So—worship the stars and worship the sea! That’s the increasing state of our culture as it abandons the truth of God’s Word.
Sounds reasonable to me.
You know I have always wondered why Christians believe that subjugating themselves to a god who may or may not exist, in the hopes of gaining access to an afterlife that may or may not exist, gives their life any particular meaning.
I mean if you live this life trembling in the shadow of a brutal, omniscient, dictator who is sizing you up to see if you deserve to earn an eternal life after this one, or suffer eternal torture, what is the meaning that this provides?
Is it not better to find your own meaning in life, and to live your life in such a way as to make your parents happy they raised you, your friends happy to know you, and your children happy you love them?
Is not one life more than enough for anybody?
And if it isn't, doesn't THAT sort of indicate who is living a life without meaning?
That's one of the few minutes of SB Hullabaloo (a new religion if there ever was one) that I saw. And I found it … strange. Come back to the sea in a huge polluting vessel?
ReplyDeleteO/T - The true face of the GOP. Liberals and other people of good sense already knew it. The ignorant brainwashed RW plebeian dopes continue to deny their own nature by projecting it across the aisle. The Good Old Boy club carries on.
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Speaking of irritating the goobers on the right:
ReplyDeleteFrontrunner? Iowa Republicans have little use for Jeb Bush.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/02/02/iowa-no-country-for-old-republican-establishment-men/
Likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers are clear: They want a president who will repeal Obamacare and crack down on terrorists here and abroad, and any presidential hopeful who wants to build GOP support in this early nominating state will likely have to toe the conservative line on social issues, a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.
ReplyDeleteMore than 90 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants said they favored pursuing terrorists more aggressively, while 80 percent were in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act. Asked which one or two issues were most important to them, the same two issues stood out: 45 percent wanted to repeal Obamacare, while 43 percent wanted more aggressive pursuit of terrorists.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-02/bloomberg-politics-des-moines-register-iowa-poll-obamacare-and-terrorism-sizzle-among-republicans-but-social-issues-still-matter
And this is what we'll get if Democrats don't get out and VOTE!
They hate more affordable health care when it's labeled Obamacare. Drop the label and they agree with most, if not all, of it. They are the stupidest among us. The corporate propagandists easily herd these fools to-and-fro (they don't even have to use a cattle prod). These folks really are in a special category of feeble-mindedness. And Obama got Osama but they make a million excuses about how he really didn't. If you listen to them Obama is really a Kenyan Muslim Socialist Communist Fascist Anti-American Usurper from the Illuminati zone.
Deleteif our metaphoric souls were a food item, I imagine his would be along the lines of baked seagull stuffed with broken glass and a port wine reduction.
ReplyDeletep.s. wait until he finds out that Carnival also has teh gay cruises too.
p.p.s. fuck Ken Ham
I find Christianity offensive. It offended me that animals were slaughtered as 'offerings' to god. It offended me that my beloved pets have no place in heaven. It offends me that an all powerful god allows children to be raped or abused or suffer deadly illness. It offends me that women are 'punished' with cycles and childbirth. I could go on, but the jist is that instead of being uplifted, I was always off put.
ReplyDeleteProfound post.
ReplyDeleteI am a Democrat and I thought using JFK's voice and speech for a cruise ship company was inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteyou know - i was surprised they didn't credit him somewhere in the commercial - and then thought did they use an actor that imitated his voice or used an old recording of that quote?
DeleteI thought it was a beautiful sentiment and was actually glad carnival rescued such an enlightened recording of one of presidents.
however, i suspect they will have a serious drop in cranky republican fundamentalists taking their cruises for a long long time.
I'm so glad it got under their skin. And ladies, when Lott's wife looked back at Sodom and Gomorrah, what did she turn into a pillar of? U guessed it, as punishment she became a salt lick. Watch the commercial and read the post again.
ReplyDeleteChina's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down on Atheism
ReplyDelete==Last week's declaration from Zhejiang province’s party committee called for CCP groups to organize activities where members disavow religious belief. It also stated that all applicants to the Party must first be screened for evidence of religious faith or participation, and rejected if any such evidence is found. Party ideology is rooted in Marxist-Leninist thought, which decries religion as a delusion that distracts the oppressed masses from demanding their fair share.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html
I too wonder if the voice over was a Kennedy impersonator. I identified it as JFK, but it was slightly off. Actually, I loved this ad. My family enjoys cruising (although we've never sailed with Carnival), so it brought forth good memories of cruises past and a desire to start planning the next one, probably two years from now. I agree that Carnival may have shot themselves in a foot by alienating the GOPers, who comprise a good number of their clientele. Watching Ken Ham and others go nuts will be great fun. There isn't much else funny happening these days. (I'm officially in outrage overload).
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was Ted Kennedy. It had the tone of his memoirs and he loved the sea as much as his brother did.
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