Showing posts with label consumerism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumerism. Show all posts

August 17, 2008

Sunday Sermon from Rev. Billy

Whisper in the American Ear: Resist Consumerism!

Resist Consumerism!

2008, the clock is ticking. Now, when American families momentarily break from the decades-long hypnosis of buying and debt, of toxic travel and the corporatizing of the unconscious. How do we whisper, Resist Consumerism!
American consumer confidence was supposed to finance an endless series of surges, of buy-outs, of epidemics. Now we've had a waking up. It's as if everyone in the country had a minor car accident, enough to walk away from the car shaking our head. We have a window of opportunity here. Resist Consumerism!
How to make a message as powerful as the Clash in 1979, or a Tibetan kid in a Chinese mall last March, make a whisper with a scream in it, "The ice is melting, the wheat is growing thin!" Resist Consumerism!
Just now, in 2008, when American families are sitting at tables and having a budget meeting for the first time. "Kids - what do we spend money on? Let's start this way. What is really necessary?" Resist Consumerism!
The whisper will not be televised. It might come from a neighbor nobody ever saw, who lost his job, and starts walking to town and back. One day he sees something and gets to work. Resist Consumerism! -- Rev
(Photo thanks to RoadsidePictures)

July 29, 2008

Rev. Billy on FOX!!!!!

Hold onto your sandals, brothers & sisters. You're going to have a most amazing visitation on your computer screen. Watch a Fox anchor get baptized in the when you click below.

Reverend Billy Presents
a Stop Shopping Teach-In on Fox News!
Reverend Billy Appears On Fox Business News!
Preaching The Gospel Of BUYLESSNESS
To The Rupert Murdoch Masses

Seriously! This is his best sermon to date. Check it out:


These people in the commercial press -- won't it ever dawn on them that this economic downturn might be a good thing? Perhaps it must dawn on them like the FIERY DAWN OF HELL AND SHOPASMIC DAMNATION!
Children, yes there is pain and struggle now -- but "Consumerism" is the Devil's religion and its faith is called "Consumer Confidence." The press acts like we are losing our nerve, or we're conning them. No - Consumerism wants to control us with ads and debt and war and we're catching on, that's all. So if a glam company like Starbucks is stranded by a consensual boycott because of $4 lattes and sheer boredom with chain stores, that's not an economy going down, that's RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE EVERLASTING! AMEN!
I preached on Fox Biz News last week - check out their response to the phrase "Capitalism isn't necessarily the same as Freedom." -- Rev
Most righteous! Keep up the good work, folks!