Snarky Sermon on the Blog: Guerilla "Christian" Marketing

I don't recall this tidbit in Genesis, do you?

"And the Lord created a never-ending biz market, called 'Slap The Word Christian On Your Product, And The Faithful Will Clamor For It.' And the Lord saw that business was good, indeed."

Sigh. Evidently, the Lord didn't include any taste limits in His creation of Guerilla "Christian" Marketing techniques. (Look left, gentle reader.)

So what's a savvy software company to do? Ignore the fascist fundie demographic and promote a free universal, egalitarian product for everyone?

Not hardly. As angrykeyboarder explains...

What is it about Christians? Why do they have to continually throw their religion in everyone’s face? --snip--

First off, why can’t “Christian” Linux users simply install “Christan” software on their computers the way they do on Windows etc? Does Microsoft produce “Christian Windows”? No, they don’t have to. Apparently enough Christians can figure out how to install “Christian” software in Windows.

I think it’s just silly. And being that I am one of those who gets annoyed as hell at Christians shoving their beliefs in front of everyone all the time, I just don’t like the idea, period.

You don’t suppose that we’ll have Hindu Ubuntu, Buddhist Ubuntu, Islam Ubuntu or Wicca Ubuntu do you?

I doubt it. Only Christians pull off this kind of crap (OK, not all Christians but a significant vocal number of them) and far too often.

WTF is with these people anyway?

Maybe Pat Robertson could promote “Christian Ubuntu” on his little TV show. Cool idea eh?

Thus Endeth Today's Sermon.

Go forth today and consider how many people will ignore a free offer unless it has the word Christian on it... and how many millions of Google hits you get when you search for "Christian software."

I mean it, damn it!

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