Remember when Cabbage Patch Kids were extraordinarily popular? Every child in America had to have their own vinyl-headed tyke. Of course that was before children loved tickling Elmo so much that some mommies and daddies literally punched other mommies and daddies in the face in order to obtain the furry pals.
Currently I see no "Out of Stock" message for either doll on Amazon.com.
For the past several decades, the majority of Americans have been of the Christian faith. It would take some kind of marketing genius to turn the tide.
We know grandiose transformations don't happen overnight, but with the right approach this country can be 80% Mormon in 2000 short years!
They've got the financing, they've got Glenn Beck, and they've got an entire state in their corner. No other religion has an entire state! The Amish have pieces of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana but it's difficult to match the marketing power of the Mormon Church when you can't use phones.
The Mormon Church actually gained about 3,000,000 members during the previous decade. That means, in the year 4000, if my math is accurate, there will be twice as many American Mormons as there are Americans!
I may be overestimating just a tad, but are you aware of how many kids these people have!? I'm not disparaging Mormons or childbearing, I'm just pointing out that many Mormon couples could field a football team with their offspring.
Is Mormonism growing because people are reading details about the religion and independently coming to the conclusion that the words they're taking in are undeniably factual? Or are people being persuaded by a vast marketing machine?
It's quite amazing to think that less than 200 years ago a man decided to start a religion that could very possibly take over America.
It seems to me that faith, an inherent knowledge your un-provable beliefs are accurate, has a lot to do with whichever church has the most gifted Don Draper type deciding which and how many commercials they'll run on Fox News.
Again, I'm not picking on Mormons. Actually, since they've proven success can happen rather quickly, a religion still in research and development could conceivably rule the U.S.A.
Some guy in Sarasota could right this second be falling into a deep sleep during which he'll dream a deity appears to him and then reveals the truth. If the sleepy Sarasotan hires the right PR firm, many of your ancestors could one day worship that deity.
If people would simply follow logic, instead of being sucked in by clever marketing gurus, the world would be full of atheists, agnostics and deists. With us as the majority, laws would finally make sense because most people in these groups only judge based on right and wrong. Therefore no one would be looked down upon for actions that harm nary a fly.
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