I don't know if this is better or worse than a few months ago when the Catholic Church decided to advertise for new priests on beer mats.
Somewhere in Sydney Australia, Anglican priest Rev. David "The Fighting Father" Smith has come up with a unique way to promote his website -- toilet tablets emblazoned with his image and website URL. (Or should that be URinaL?)
Some of Father Dave's other promotions include an e-book entitled
Sex, The Ring, and The Eucharist, regular fight nights, and the website feature
"Buy Me a Drink" where users can donate money by figuratively buying the good Father a wee pint. And he's not even Irish!
"(I) only apologise that I didn't respond with some clever video footage of me raising a glass to the webcam and saying 'cheers' or something like that,"
he says.
In response to criticism his toilet tablets tarnish the church's image, Father Dave responds, "If you're trying to communicate with men who frequent pubs, tell me a better way of getting 30 seconds of their undivided attention."
Only 30 seconds? These boys need to drink more! Obviously these are men without prostate problems.
Some of the tablets have a speaker that yells at those who hit it square on. It might be worth hanging around an Australian pub just to see the reaction of the first hapless drunk when a toilet starts reprimanding his aim. This sounds like Father Dave's version of "scared straight."
I'd like a piece of this action. This could be the holiday season's biggest novelty gift. Let's see, what could toilet tabs yell out? "Here now, put that thing away!" Maybe a female voice, "Oooo, you're a big boy, aren't you?" And for the hip-hop set, a bit of sampling, "You call that a knife? That's not a knife.
That's a knife!"
And you thought Oral Roberts came up with some far out, crazy stuff. At least you don't see we pentecostal/evangelical types staring up at you from the bowl. (Okay, maybe Jimmy Swaggert that one time, but to our credit we threw him out of the Assembly of God for it.)
Somehow I don't think this is what St. Paul meant when he said "come boldly to the throne."