Ad Competition: Create the Best Pitch for Banning Religion

Here’s something you won’t see in America any time soon. This Australian tv show, The Gruen Transfer, is oriented to the advertising business. The gist is that they give advertisers a really difficult task and see how well they sell it, and their panel of gurus critiques the work. That’s not the unamerican part. What’s special about this particular episode is that the competitors had to make ads that advocate banning religion–and they were pretty well done.

While banning is obviously extreme and this is only an exercise, certain corners of the internet have been actively making fun of superstitious logic for years–but there’s a big difference between chipping away at belief and an outright ban.

After the jump, here are 2 very different arguments on banning religion. One takes a lighthearted approach; the other looks like a negative campaign ad: