A Righteous Rant on Creativity or the Lack Thereof

by Jon Haarstad on May 10, 2006

Like everyone else out there, I get lots of unwanted e-mail. I’m not sure what’s been happening of late, but the spammers seem to be getting more clever and I’m constantly being bombarded with Online Pharmaceuticals, stock deals, and someone in Nigeria who claims to want to hand over millions of dollars with no string attached. But I’m not alone in having to throw away other people’s trash and my recycle bin at home shows that it’s not limited to just e-junk-mail.

Ok, so here’s the rant. I don’t know if I ever subscribed to this site or not, but I received a newsletter from a site called “Church Leader Insights with Nelson Searcy”. The e-newlsetter is classy. Their site is classy. I haven’t looked into them much but first impression is that these folks have it together. That was until I saw this digusting display of creative thievery that got me all fired up this morning. WHY DO CHRISTIANS FEEL THE NEED TO CONSTANTLY RIP OFF OTHER PEOPLE’S CREATIVITY! Are we that bland? Are we that unimaginitive? Case in point – their new campaign entitled “LIFE 360″. Hmm…that sounds familiar. And the logo! Come on! I feel like I should turn them in to some graphics design police agency for prosecution.

I’ve always detested the sad trend of Christians thinking it’s cool to rip off someone else’s graphics/logo with a cliche Christian stamp on it. It’s the “see-we-can-be-cool-too” idea that, honestly, comes across as silly at best – pathetic at worst. BE CREATIVE! I’ll send out the e-scream in my best William Wallace voice…

“CREATIVITY!!!!”

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