Big companies and advertisers are not overlooking the profitability of the religious youth market. Bill Graening, director of the Alive Festival, said that with nearly 25 big festivals a year, there were probably 2 million to 3 million kids in attendance, and the numbers are growing.
Graening said he and several other festival directors recently talked about working together to market the events, and Graening said he'd been contacted by several large companies interested in sponsoring the Alive Festival.
"Companies are seeing the size of the youth evangelical market growing, with growing disposable income, growing education," Schofield-Clark said. "They're seeing the evangelical Christian market as a viable market."
From: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Beliefs/story?id=1403056 on December 15th, 2005, by Jonann Brady
I saw a sign about a CHRISTmas Sale this AM..... do you reckon that Jesus would empty the capitalisttemple coffers of our modern businesses? Christianity, as it is practiced in amerika, dupes people into not being responsible for themselves, each other, or the planet. And, as the snip from the article above states, young Christians are merely an untapped market in the capitalisttemple. I'll tell you anything to make a dollar, because that's my bottom line! Sure! Jesus loves you! And! He loves you even more for every ticket you buy!
Just pondering *ahem* aloud, like I sometimes do..... Christimas as we know it is a commercial entity, born in the 1920's. And even an amateur theologian, like myself, knows damn well that Jesus would have been born around June. So, when our legislators work hard to establish exactly what Christmas means, I wonder what the true objective is? Certainly, it won't be a logical decision based on our actual his-stories. It will only be the cement that holds the capitalisttemple together. Praise Jesus. Now give me a fuckin' dollar.
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