A VERY Offensive Advertisement

I found this advertisement so offensive I HAD to share it.

It is kind of like when someone takes a bite of something, pulls a face and then tries to pass it to you with the words: “this is SO gross! Here try it!”

Is is SO offensive! - Here, look at it!

It showed up on my Facebook page as an ad on the side and I felt so strongly about this that I immediately clicked the button with the thumbs-down symbol, and when asked to give a reason why I felt this way I checked the box next to the word “offensive”.

Normally I just pass by the ads including the ones with the girls in their underwear or “R” rated movies- without even bothering to look at them twice.

But not this ad.

It is so offensive in just so many levels that I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way.

In fact I think the ONLY person who would NOT find this offensive is a chain-smoking agnostic without any children.

Lets pick on the smoking first..
Anyone with children would find this advertisement offensive on just that point.
My mother received this same ad as a flyer in her mail and now imagine that it wasn’t her who collected the mail but her imaginary eight-year-old daughter. The little girl would take one look at it and then go to her mother and ask “Mommy, why is the man dressed up as a bunny smoking a cigarette?”

Easter bunnies are not geared at adults. I have never seen a forty-year old woman become all excited when she sees the Easter bunny. Am I not right in assuming that any normal mother who is trying to teach her children not to smoke “death sticks” would find this offensive?

But I think the targeted audience, Christians, would find this ad extremely offensive.

At least I did.

And I don’t even celebrate Easter (which is a separate topic in itself).

The most offensive part of the whole ad for me is the last sentence:

If this is not blasphemy then what is??

And I am not even going to enter into the debate about how one should dress when coming before God.


First, it is the absolute arrogance of it.

The attitude of "don’t even bother to prepare yourself when you meet your God."


Then it is the second blasphemy of the idea of God meeting us at our level: “that’s WHERE God meets us.”

That is not what he does!

Psalms 24:3-6
“Who shall ascend into the hill of YHWH? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”

God does not go down to our level. He does not need to change.

Instead, WE have to change and reach up to God!

We go to God! NOT the other way round!!

He does not meet us at our terms. But on HIS terms.

Ex 19:17
“Then Moses led the people OUT of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.”

God wants all us sinners to come to him.
He wants us to repent.

The only reference I could find that said that God would meet sinful man is in the context of the people making burnt offerings:

Ex 29:42
"For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the Lord. There I will meet you and speak to you;

This is the ONLY way God will meet us.

Ps 51:14-17
“Save me from bloodguilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise”