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April 24th, 2013
07:17 PM ET
Catholic ads in NY: Jesus was 'the original hipster'By Pallavi Reddy, CNN (CNN) - Ads around Brooklyn bring a new meaning to Joan Osborne's lyrics, “What if God was one of us?” In a new ad campaign launched by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn this month, people in the borough and neighboring Queens have a new way to view Jesus: “The Original Hipster.” The ads feature the bottom half of a man - meant to be Jesus - wearing robes with a pair of dirty red Converse sneakers peeking out from the bottom. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter In a news release, the diocese refers to Seth Meyers' joke on “Saturday Night Live” that Converse sneakers are why more Catholics are returning to the church, and says the marketing campaign is “showing a cooler and more welcoming side of the Catholic Church.”
Monsignor Kieran Harrington said he understood the importance of relating to the people of the area. “Jesus appears (in these ads) like people of the L train,” he said. “What is a hipster anyway? Someone who stands against the (mainstream) culture. Jesus stood against the culture.” CNN Belief: The Curious Case of the Christian Hipster Ten months ago, the conversation started about creating such a campaign to let people know there are a variety of different faces who attend the church. Harrington says these particular ads were a collaboration with the ad and PR agency Ruckus. Now they are found in places where the church doesn't usually advertise, including bus stands, restaurants and gyms. The ads have generated online buzz in Salon, the Gothamist and other sites, and traffic on the diocese's website has gone up 400%, Harrington said. As for what kind of ads to expect from the diocese next, the monsignor said: “It’s for you to find out.” CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories
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Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, near Queens, is considered to be the "unofficial East Coast birthplace of hipsterism," as a 
For the Christians...asking me to believe what you believe exactly the way you believe it is impossible for me. I'm sure it is for the atheists too.
For the atheists.....just let it go, man. Just let it go.
I'm sure there were plenty of people telling MLK to "just let it go" as well.
Petester, where'd ya get yer name? MOhammmud?
You wouldn't be a lost jew hater, ya know the jews that ain't jews? Plenty of christian pretenders that pretend the rapture! Cuz the jews are special! 'Cept they're NOT. Poor widdle muslims, wantin' a dream. DIVORCE DUDES. Wurld rules! Understand??
take this punk's threats straight to the fbi and homeland security. don't let up until you are satisfied they "get it" with this terrorist.
"William Demuth
Blessings?
Is that all the compensation your cult thinks it is going to have to pay for its crimes?
We will bankrupt you, stigmatize you, imprison your leaders and expunge your madness from our culture.
And just remember for a moment all those you folks have stepped on?
They are itching for some payback.
I would prefer a sucular society, but if given the choice between your faith and the muslims, I will support the Muslims every time. Not because their lies are better than yours, but simply because they will do to you what you guys did to the Jews.
They will wage a genocide against you, and I will cuddle up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and enjoy the hell out of the show.
William Demuth
Bull
Your beliefs are bigoted obsolete and dangerous
We shall be free of them, by force if need be.
Your days in the sun are done, and all those you have abused are itching to get a little payback"
The Christian bible is loaded with far worse threats against humanity. Get over yourself.
Can anyone tell who said what including faith whenever faith posts anything?
I said what I said in the post before hand. Its present was as I had quoted it seen.
Just because you won't understand don't make arguments.
I guess that is your way of saying that you "top-posted". Now where is a date and time for your quote. You've been untrustworthy in the past regarding quotes so show where your quotes came from or we consider them bogus.
It hardly matters how many ways christians reinterpret, redress, and reform their folk hero. It will not change the fact that the man in the tales never existed.
Oh, Jesus the man may have existed, but that Christ guy, the one who supposedly is the only one who can get people into heaven and who's coming to slaughter all the nonbelievers ... soon (no kidding) well, that's the character that so many don't take very seriously.
It's like saying that, while Vlad may have been a pretty bad guy who impaled his enemies by ramming poles up their wazoos, that doesn't mean that we should believe that he could turn into a bat at will and didn't cast reflections in mirrors. Lots of real people have had incredibly tall tales told about them. What's wrong with suspecting that Jesus was one of them?
I have been trying to figure out for MONTHS if Yeshua (a Jewish Rabbi) actually was alive or not. I can't figure it out. Shouldn't just for the sake of history be accurate one way or the other somehow?
He was god almighty.
Emphasis on the "was".
A master of many tongues?
Interesting that these Catholics put out an advertisement that seeks to make Jesus Christ appear more accessible, but in their theology and practice the Catholics continue to surround Jesus with barriers and detours and intermediaries.
I don't know about 'Hipster", but what Yeshua did was the will of the Father 24/7. The Son of God revealed to the world and to the religious leaders of the day Who God Is, and what He expects of us. He taught us a lot by Word and example. But what He really came to do was atone for our sins. He is the promised seed of Abraham through whom God will bless all the nations of the earth by faith. His ministry was awesome, but far more reaching was His death on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. Receive Him as Savior/Messiah and Lord and you will know the peace of the Lord. Shalom
I just want to be really clear on this though. God sacrificed a part of himself TO himself to absolve creatures he made from sins he invented. That's one convoluted loophole. If you think that's ok, then hey, keep it and enjoy.
The guy gets executed in exactly the same way that thousands of others were killed after what, two or three years of preaching, and you call that successful? It was only by the luck of having it sponsored by an Emperor's mother that Christianity became as popular as it did. Of course, other religions never had a fraction of this kind of good luck and still hung around. Even religions started by people who openly admitted that starting one was a great way to get rich prosper. The secret of the success of religion is people's gullibility ... and their fear.
He said he would come back within one lifetime. It didn't happen, after 2000 years it still hasn't happened
He lied
They got around that with the legend of the Wandering Jew. The amazing thing is that people actually believed it.
Reblogged this on Reckless Abandon Wrapped in Common Sense and commented:
How will you be a hipster in your lifetime?
"Come to my site because I can't be bothered to do my own blogging."
"You've posted a comment on CNN, now come and post into mine."
JMEF, WHO R YOU?
I woke up in a Soho doorway
The policeman knew my name
He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
I staggered back to the underground
The breeze blew back my hair
I remembered throwing punches around
And preachin' from my chair
Who are you
Who who who who
Who are you
Who who who who
With the orange high tops back in the bronze age, the totally different from the original name and so on it's no wonder nobody is sure if he even existed or not.
People who don't want their beliefs laughed at shouldn't believe such funny things.
A god is someone's way of dealing with their mortality. Most of us, most of the time, all get by feeling no need to comment on other people's dieties. I understand though, orange sneakers are tough to overlook.
Sneakers, mohawk, several tats... I bet the atheism version of just plain fictional seems like a compliment now huh?
"Sneakers, mohawk, several tats..."
Sounds like 80% of the newly-minted youth pastors out there these days, young women included. They're like teachers fresh out of ed. school; trying to look "cool" for the kids, but only making them hate them all the more. Sad!
Today is the 60th anniversary of Watson and Crick's announcement of the structure of DNA. 60 years. How can 60 years go by with the chemical understanding of evolution and still a huge population denies it!
Education isn't a necessity to the downtrodden religious tards.
Chik-Fil-A is their answer.
They're not thinking of it in terms of evolution. They would just like to just find a way to develop a way to raise McNuggets from birth – no feathers or appendages...
denial is not just a river in Egypt ...
Dyslexic doG................ it runs deep........................down the Mississippi too ? Denial that is .
Since jesus said he would come back within one lifetime and 2000 years later there are over 1,000,000,000 people that denie something is wrong with the picture
And summarizing with:
The Apostles' / Agnostics’ Creed 2013 (updated by yours truly based on the studies of NT historians and theologians of the past 200 years)
Should I believe in a god whose existence cannot be proven
and said god if he/she/it exists resides in an unproven,
human-created, spirit state of bliss called heaven?????
I believe there was a 1st century CE, Jewish, simple,
preacher-man who was conceived by a Jewish carpenter
named Joseph living in Nazareth and born of a young Jewish
girl named Mary. (Some say he was a mamzer.)
Jesus was summarily crucified for being a temple rabble-rouser by
the Roman troops in Jerusalem serving under Pontius Pilate,
He was buried in an unmarked grave and still lies
a-mouldering in the ground somewhere outside of
Jerusalem.
Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by
many semi-fiction writers. A bodily resurrection and
ascension stories were promulgated to compete with the
Caesar myths. Said stories were so popular that they
grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity
and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals
called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.
Amen
(References used are available upon request.)
C'mon scabies, tighten up on yer coagulatin',
Hi everybody
I'm Archie Bell of the Drells
From Houston, Texas
We don't only sing but we dance
Just as good as we walk
In Houston we just started a new dance
Called the Tighten Up
This is the music
We tighten up with
First tighten up on the drums
Come on now, drummer
I want you to tighten it up for me now
Oh yeah
Tighten up on that bass now
Tighten it up, ha, ha, yeah
Now let that guitar fall in, oh yeah
Tighten up on that organ now
Read more: ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS – TIGHTEN UP LYRICS
And the sand is waiting for you lol??
Peace
You're taking me back to my childhood with that one, lol??.
How about some 'Crazy World of Arthur Brown' lyrics? Seems apropos, no?
And now for the truly obscure:
Hi everybody, we're the Nazz from Philadelphia, home of tuna fish hoagie.
In Philadelphia, we do a little thing called the loosen up. It goes like this.
First we loosen up on the drums. OK, now we loosen up on the bass. All right
let the guitar player fall in. Now then, now then, the organ player. Get
loose everybody. Do the loosen up. You can do it now. Ain't nothing to it
now. Loosen up baby. Get loose. Hang loose baby. Hang loose mother.
Hang loose fungo bat.
"Loosen Up" by The Nazz (60's band featuring one thin and pale, Todd Rundgren)
Catholics are misled they need to learn the truth.
Amen
You agree that their god does not exist. Welcome to the 19th century.
HeavenSent,
"Catholics are misled they need to learn the truth."
And just WHO do you think put together that goofy book that you read and quote so often?!
Just more garbage and gibberish from the RCC! That's why I have been saying that IDOLATRY IS NOT RELIGION. IDOLATRY is a Very Serious SIN. DO NOT be Deceive by these Idolaters, they don't know Christ, they don't understand Scripture, their worship to mute Idols is worship to demons. Don't listen to them, don't follow them DON'T BE DECEIVE by these Fakes.
Surprising New Function for Small RNAs in Evolution.........time to pound sand maybe ?
Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism. The researchers found that the number of hairs on flies' legs varies according to the level of activity of a so-called microRNA.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419075909.htm
@ Science,
Good for you dog! Keep barking and don't forget to scratch when the fleas bite you!
right. be decieved by other fairy tales
No thanks ...............splat goes the fairy in the sky !
Have a great lie ...................EX
Oops ..........life too !
...and you think you've made JESUS happy talking down on the catholic church the way you have?
You think you are smarter than all the lettered men down 2000 years......
ont take yrself so seriously
?!... I thought all sins were the same in seriousness? So some sins are better than others? Like for the same "price" I can have one gluttony or 2 lies or ½ a blasphemy? So I if I can save up enough not telling lies to have a free forn-ication?
This is a ridiculous campaign. You can't appeal to hipsters by saying Jesus was a hipster; hipsters hate being called or thought of as hipsters. You're basically making Jesus look like a poser. Juuuust saying.
Good old Buddy Jesus!
And yet if hipsterism isn't hip, it's unhipness makes it hip. The hipster who embraces their hipsterism is unhip and therfore extra hip.
It's a vicious circle.
get with it dcc,
Cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk
We know a cat who can really do the cool jerk
We know a cat who can really do the cool jerk
This cat they're talking about
I wonder who could it be
'Cause I know I'm the heaviest cat
The heaviest cat you ever did see
When you see me walking down the street
And they clapping and they speak
All the business they wish to whisper it
But they know I'm the king of the cool jerks
Cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk, cool jerk
Ah ha ha
Too many sick and cheesy Christian videos being posted, so it's time to hear the truth about religion, from George C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo
Werd.
bob, do you not know how old that video is? the man is dead, let him rest in peace, he has learned how wrong he was except the part about the catholic church, oh yeah I forgot, that's how old it is. j
jim, how has he learned how wrong he was? Go ahead, spit it out, it'll be funny to watch.
sam you dope did you not read my whole comment?
sammy, maybe you really do not know George at all and maybe you have not watched his performances.
I'm not sure showing a model wearing sneakers and representing it as Jesus is the best approach. First of all, the sneakers look too large (note the up-curve of the toes of shoes) and the whole thing looks unrealistic. Perhaps doing a campaign based on the "look of Love" might be more appropriate. What does love look like? Acceptance of one's self, of others whatever their creed, color or nationality, helping the less fortunate, kind words to lift those who might be having a bad day, a simple smile while recognizing another's existence...the list goes on and on. There are plenty of pictures of what Jesus spoke of...of how He lived on this earth. Dirty sneakers do not support His reason for being here. Being portrayed as a hipster? Sounds like they needed to hire a more in-touch person to come up with a campaign. I like that they are trying to show that God relates to us, meets us where we are, but the visual message is, to me who is a Christian, not doing that.
Dee Ann, why does anyone need to be "hired" for that, and for other god-fraud-selling activities that moronic Christians seem to need to keep their pathetic pyramid scheme going.
As usual, Christian god can't do the job himself because he doesn't exist.
jim. Asshole. "He has learned how wrong he was". Everyone knows he's dead, dumbass. That's why I asked you to tell us how he 'learned he was wrong' about religion. Can you not fucking read?
Jim, have you spoken to George since he's died? Do tell.
I can not believe no one understood my comment but my aren't we testy when we do not know what someone is talking about. no one talked to the dead (not possible) akira buI think you already got that part and sammie?............
Umm, jim, we all got what you were trying to tell us, you buffoon. We were just all laughing at your sheer fucking stupidity in your thinking that we didn't get it.
Run along, now, jim, you little short bus window licker.
sammie and friends, it must hurt real bad to feel so lost out on what to say. I am so sorry you guys have to come up with answers that are so lacking in educated language but have to use the foul ignorant speech that emulates the fellow in the cartoon that started all this. please accept my apology for causing you to spew out the manure you seem to feel will be accepted by others that share in an educated dialogue.
check out a new atheist page – Poetic Atheism – on facebook.
Was Poetic Justice the first entry? Coagulators are a widdle light on that subject.
Coagulators?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wS4JQi4dgvg
Eeeewww! Xtian cardboard "music". Maybe three or four chords at most.
Boris-what a cacophony of sound bites you make!!
What a boring song.
This song is nothing more than a repetitive, brainwashing chant.
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"There ain't no jesus gonna come from the sky.
Now that I found out, I know I can cry." – John Lennon
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” Peace replaces a television set, now stop demanding that television set. Keep calling out for Lennon and you will find peace. You are as absurd as Lennon.
Really? This brilliant quote from Mr Lennon is straight to the point, and elementary enough that even simple people would grasp what he was saying. Unfortunately, John still overestimated the intelligence of ignorant pricks like you. To put it in 1960s terms, you "jesus freaks" are the only absurdities here.
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"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right." - John Lennon
Pissed off that people still take Lennon's word's to heart, Vine? Lennon was right. Get your stupid nose away from the television set. That shit'll rot your brain, fool.
Dogs still barking!
And since Vine is into absurdities...
It's time for another episode of "Bowling for god" with Benny Hinn. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYoqoxN_nGI
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"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right." - John Lennon
Is it true barking dogs don't bite?
@eh – "Dogs still barking!"
@eh – "Is it true barking dogs don't bite?"
While every dog has its day, the other 364 belong to the cats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrip_9097c
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"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right." - John Lennon
threatened dogs continue to bark!
Has our resident little Bibletroll found a new handle?
Looks like the resident barking dog keeps changing handles.