A number of years ago I recall one Lutheran pastor who gave a midweek Lent sermon at the church I attended at the time. What made me blink is that he went on the entire time about how sinful it was to read ads from the Sunday paper. Not for the greed aspect that you would automatically presume. But that all the stores were endorsing pornography because they had pics of both men and women in underwear advertising those products. It doesn't matter what religion or lackthereof you are, you still need certain essentials just because you are human. How does the ad cause them to sin like he insisted it does? I don't know anyone, Christian or otherwise, who is sexually attracted in the least to any of those models, nor is it a temptation of any kind.
2007-02-21 20:51:36 · 2 answers · asked by *Miss_Autumn* 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow, what a Proper Distinction between the Law and Gospel! [/end sarcasm]. I guess that is Lutheran Pietism at its finest at work here. I think the Gander Mountain or Comp-USA ads are more of a temptation for me than the women's underwear in the Kohl's ad.
2007-02-22 04:14:56 · answer #1 · answered by Martin Chemnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. People DO get upset about this.
Ask any person who is close to God.
Ask a teenager if he looks at an underwear ad to see the underwear or to see the model.
Victoria's Secret and Wonderbra sell so well because they spend so much on advertising and good looking models. If you think that people are not looking at the bodies, then ask the Victoria's Secret and Wonderbra ad teams to use models with scarred or "unattractive" bodies; or to use "dummies" or dolls to dress up. If women in underwear were not attractive to men, then why do men buy FHM and Playboy?
It is by these subtle ways and means, like advertising, that Satan brings these "transgressions" and sins into our homes.
2007-02-22 07:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by mystery woman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋