Last month I wrote an email with the subject line:
“uncovering your goo-roo’s nakedness”
Basically, it talked about how the term “uncovering your father’s nakedness” in the Bible means having sex with your father’s wife. And, I then related it to the rampant what Dan Kennedy calls “marketing incest” going on in Internet marketing land.
Anyway, one of my loyal *atheist* readers Paul M. commented:
… Ultimately, theists will be rubbed the wrong way by the idea that you should evaluate the Bible from a secular framework that is more authoritative than it (though, at first, they may not suspect any analysis as being from outside the framework of their good book). And atheists will be rubbed the wrong way by the idea that they should open to the images and frameworks that they have come to see as a control system that they reject.
But someone who teaches email marketing would know that rubbing a little salt in the religious wound will stir anxiety and drive attention while the stories, that have been such powerful marketing vehicles, also make great teaching vehicles.
Bring on the Bible.
^^ Agreed.
As for theists who get acid reflux over such things:
They tend to be the ones practicing churchianity not Christianity, and I couldn’t care less what they think. On the other hand, if someone mocks my faith, I find it nearly impossible to take that seriously, either.
Why would I?
As David Putty said to Elaine in “Seinfeld”:
“I’m not the one going to hell”
And speaking of the pit:
The August “Email Players” issue has a teaching in it I titled:
“If They’re In Heaven, Cast Them Down Into Hell!”
It’s a powerful way (I have used for years) of selling in emails.
And, it works.
But, only if you know how to do it.
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Ben Settle
