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- dig1x, on 05/27/2008, -83/+468Dealers are independantly owned, but Ford is going to crush this idiot. Call them and complain:
United States
800-392-3673
Canada
800-565-3673
Quote them from their own diversity policy:
http://www.ford.com/our-values/diversity
Here's the "contact us" form:
https://secure.ford.com/footer/contact-ford/contac ... - The_Wallbanger, on 05/27/2008, -14/+342Sit down and shut up! My free speech is better than yours!
- suttercain, on 05/27/2008, -55/+361Dear Kieffe & Sons Ford,
My name is Shannon Cronin and I am a life long Southern California resident. I am writing you in response to an advertisement that I heard today. This advertisement was apparently released by your dealership.
In this advertisement, a claim is made that 86% of Americans are Christians. While Christianity is certainly the largest religion practiced by Americans, the actual number is closer to 79%. That means 1 in 5 people actually don’t subscribe to the notion that God had a son through a virgin, who would later be crucified and then, much like in “Night of the Living Dead”, rise from the grave. 1 in 5 people actually grew out of superstitious beliefs and decided that fairy tales are nothing more than that, fairy tales.
The advertisement continues to ponder the question “Why we don't just tell the other 14% to sit down and shut up?” only to then say “This is America folks, it's called free speech.” That would seem to create an oxymoron. But let’s apply this logic to other cases. 74% of the population is listed as “White”. Because Caucasians are the majority should we tell Blacks, Asians, Indians, Hispanics, and Middle Eastern people to “Sit down and shut up”? That would seem to be your logic when applied to religion.
In truth and in fact your dealership does not truly understand what it means to be an American. I hope for your sake all of your employees agree with this advertisement, if not, I would sue you for discrimination and creating a hostile work environment.
Sincerely,
Shannon Cronin - nutniqs, on 05/27/2008, -14/+309Jesus Chrysler
- thedevice, on 05/27/2008, -35/+241Quite possibly the ballsiest marketing move I've heard today.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/27/2008, -8/+181If I drove a Ford, I'd probably be praying, too...
- omnithought, on 05/27/2008, -20/+180My response: "No. Go ***** yourself."
- Shiftgood, on 05/27/2008, -14/+171eh... im an atheist and i really don't care. He can say what he wants.
- duggtodeath, on 05/27/2008, -19/+158Why is America synonymous with stupidity today? :(
- opticwind, on 05/27/2008, -8/+126"We all know that 86 out of every 100 of us are Christians who believe in God."
Apparently, Jews and Muslims don't believe in God. Or they don't exist in the US. - lex0nyc, on 05/27/2008, -9/+117Not according to the ad.
- inactive, on 05/27/2008, -32/+132Christians in the US think jeebus would be exactly like the and ride back from heavain in a huge Ford truck.
Sadly for them if jeebus were real he would likely be brown, and so they would immediately lynch him for being different. - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -16/+114Actually, one of the main reasons I denounced my Christian faith is because I can't find one single shred of evidence for the Jesus of the Bible. Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible.
Amazingly, we have not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, who ever mentions him during his supposed life time. This appears quite extraordinary, and you will find few Christian apologists who dare mention this embarrassing fact.
After confronting a few Church members with this new knowledge for lack of evidence, it became painfully obvious that these people seems to have NO interest whatsoever in scientific debate. It seems all they care about is re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this. But so far I haven't been. - ct03, on 05/27/2008, -23/+111The blogger linked in the story actually wrote to Ford corporate and received a reply telling her to take it up with the local dealership. Hopefully there's enough negative attention to get them to reconsider.
- welestgw, on 05/27/2008, -14/+84I suppose the guy would be disappointed to be reminded that "Under God" was added in 1954.
Though I can't really see this helping to sell more cars. If they are looking to offend they should have just offered free gas for 3 years to people who recite the pledge of allegiance and throw down a few Hail Marys. - dupems, on 05/27/2008, -13/+81Ballsy? More like retarded. Way to alienate potential buyers...
- FaithclubDotNet, on 05/27/2008, -7/+72I'm Christian and I find this offensive.
- Pyehole, on 05/27/2008, -3/+66Jesus Chrysler Supercar?
- GhostWithToast, on 05/27/2008, -15/+77FORD - Fear Of Religious Diversity?
- quaxon, on 05/27/2008, -7/+68"...86 out of every 100 of us are Christians who believe in God..."
- thal3s, on 05/27/2008, -8/+68True. And i support the right to do so.
However, hard-core believers like these people would execute all of us non-Christians.
I find that a little bothersome... (if you think i'm exaggerating, i would direct you to news stories involving the radical right in the middle east) - asnider, on 05/27/2008, -3/+61Apparently they don't realize that believing in God =! being Christian.
- cerealjynx, on 05/27/2008, -6/+59Back in the day he rode Velociraptors, so I think he'd be more comfertable with some kind of motorcycle.
- omnithought, on 05/27/2008, -23/+75Atheism isn't a religion, and no one's trying to force it, you stupid *****. How do you force the lack of belief in a god on anyone? What do you mean by "your goals"? Or are you one of those paranoid folks who think that resisting fundamentalism is somehow part of an "agenda"?
And since free speech applies to everyone, that means we can say what we like about morons who make ads like this and post ignorant crap like you do. Please, get a vasectomy. - jeepgun, on 05/27/2008, -4/+54My car is fueled by the souls of the damned!
...vroom - inactive, on 05/27/2008, -9/+59Sure is. Frankly, I appreciate it. Any business that sticks it's superstition in my face I don't patronize. If they're stupid enough to pull this kind of crap, then they are too stupid to get my business and I want to know that.
- odiego, on 05/27/2008, -3/+52Why is religion involved anyways? Damn.
- inactive, on 05/27/2008, -7/+49In the land of Free Speech, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
- csstudent, on 05/27/2008, -6/+46Here's a better idea. If it bothers you that much - don't buy cars there. That was the risk he took when he put the ads on the radio. As a business owner he had every right to do that.
- ElTomacco, on 05/27/2008, -1/+41Those statistics are irrelevant anyway. He said 86% of Americans believe in god. He somehow took that to mean that all those people are practicing Christians and that no practicing Christians believe in evolution.
- deals68, on 05/27/2008, -3/+43So don't spend your money there. Vote with your dollars.
- Dystisis, on 05/27/2008, -5/+39Interesting how he is telling the atheists to "sit down and shut up" while talking about his right to free speech. America, ***** yeah.
- Logicexe, on 05/27/2008, -6/+38Ballsy? Come on. He stood up with the majority to alienate the minority in a community that is fairly conservative and Christian. They're pandering to their locals.
- quaxon, on 05/27/2008, -27/+59Any grown adult who still believes in the retarded stories put forth in the bible (or any other religious text for that matter) deserves nothing less than to be mocked.
- serif69, on 05/27/2008, -8/+40And it worked too. Front page on Digg and a feature story on consumerist.
As they say, "There's no such thing as bad press." - Cerebral, on 05/27/2008, -3/+33Let's be honest, you weren't going to buy a Ford anyway :)
- Terr01, on 05/27/2008, -1/+31Not to mention their math sucks--at least, it assumes that absolutely nobody in America (A) believes in God without (B) being Christian.
Among other excluded groups: Jews! Obviously they're anti-semitic bigots :P - PopcornDave, on 05/27/2008, -5/+35Glad to be one of the heathen 14...
- cheerio, on 05/27/2008, -5/+34From the comments 'On another note, that audio clip sounds like it came straight out of GTA IV.'
Exactly what i was thinking. To be fair, in America you have every right to be ignorant as you want to be. - ubuwalker31, on 05/27/2008, -3/+32If this ad is purely political speech...then fine...it is fully protected under the 1st Amendment. However, since this is commercial speech, and since these Ford cars and trucks are made in interstate commerce, and lets say a Muslim walks into the dealership, and the dealership refuses to sell him a car, or treats him differently than Christian customers, I'd say that this is a violation of the 13th and 14th Amendments, sort of how it is unlawful for a diner to be prejudiced against blacks.
- danogburn, on 05/27/2008, -5/+34because atheists use critical thought to back their beliefs.. We're not asking you to sit down and shut up. We want you to see religious belief is irrational.
- Owned1Up, on 05/27/2008, -3/+32We all have free speech, unless we don't agree with Kieffe & Sons. In which case I need to sit down and shut up.
- sloonark, on 05/27/2008, -0/+28FYI, =! != !=
- magneticdozer, on 05/27/2008, -6/+33GET OUT YOUR ***** CHECK BOOK !
- Jexie, on 05/27/2008, -2/+28They have a right to say it, and we have a right to let Ford know we won't be buying their products if they support it and a right to also say what we want about this person - whats your point?
- audiomodder, on 05/27/2008, -5/+31yet another example of extremists giving us Christians a bad name. you'd think i'd be used to it by now.....
- cambob76, on 05/27/2008, -7/+33Once you've come to your senses about Christianity, it's hard not to mock it. I seriously suspect Christ would laugh at it too, were he alive.
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