December 02 2008
A Christmas Message
posted by Ana Samways at 7:16 pmForget about the religion and the website this clip is plugging, and think about it as showing a new way of looking at Christmas.
Spare Room Be our guest…
Edited by Ana Samways & Steven Shaw
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Why forget about the religion?
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:16 am
Brilliant! But, sorry, what did you say it was plugging? Religion? Looked like clean water to me! A great ad targeting a niche market.
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 am
Why forget about the religion? Because this is something everyone should be able to get behind, religious or not. I’m usually leery of Christian charities, but I’ll gladly throw in my share for such a laudable, achievable goal.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 am
Religious points of view can be off putting for athiests and agnostics (and for non Christians in this instance). I was just saying the message about Christmas and clean water initiative is a good one and don’t discount it because of a touch of godbothering. I really like the idea of giving something away this year instead of buying crap – especially after the City Mission reported food donations were waaay down this year.
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 am
I wish my family and inlaws would see this….ba hum bug.
Great add
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 am
It would be great if a non-religious group got people organised and raised a heap of money – it would lay down a good challenge to the local church.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
The best present my children can give us, their parents, is their time. Having a meal together and their company is worth more than money!
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
It’d be great if they got all the religious shit out of that ad. Then I’d feel comfortable sending it out to everyone. But I’ll try to just put out the message. Without the other fluff.
Great idea though.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Not to be negative, but many businesses now depend upon consumers spending up large at christmas time, if people stopped spendin money the ecconomy would collapse and we’d find ourselves in a recession. 10/450 is 2% of spending… perhaps the governments of the world could tax everyone a christmas tax of 2% on spending and then donate that money to charity?
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 am
It’s a brilliant idea – I’m lucky enough to know many people who do it already. Last Christmas I received cards showing my friends and rellies had given a lot of money to people like the Tear fund & Oxfam to help with issues like clean water & good food.
I give my partner ‘vouchers’ for things like breakfast in bed, a foot rub, a car wash (not all at the same time). My favourite cousin bakes and my sister makes handcrafts.
Makes Christmas a lot more fun for everyone
December 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
“but many businesses now depend upon consumers spending up large at christmas time”
So we should keep on supporting unwise business practices?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
But it was the Christians that got off their arses and are trying to do something about it. Shame that them living their faith and doing something for the poor and downtrodden is “offputting”. I find the rest of the world’s inaction when we’re only talking $10bio not just offputting, but outright offensive and shameful.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Ubu I think it’s funny that you think Christians are the only people “getting off their arses”.
It’s their holiday – they should be doing something.
And people who don’t worship Sky Gods do charity work every day. Simply not buying into religion is in a way a gift to future generations.