AIM Slogan Stoned For Blasphemy

It sure is getting easy to blaspheme these days. An AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) user lost his religion about the company's new slogan, an apparent scrambling of the letters AIM into I AM." The user calls the slogan "blasphemy" and a "vulgar sin of offence." MATTHIAS: Look. I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying 'Jehovah'. CROWD: Oooh! He said it again! Oooh!... OFFICIAL: You're only making it worse for yourself! MATTHIAS: Making it worse?! How could it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! CROWD: Oooooh!... --from Monty Python's WorldNetDaily, Ian Millar demanded in a letter to AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and corporate communications officer John Buckley that they immediately change the name of their marketing program. Millar found the slogan, which begins a sentenced finished by the name of the product (i.e., I AM INTANT MESSAGING or I AM VOICE CHAT), to be blasphemous as an English translation of the Hebrew name of God. This is not to be confused with the Japanese Other religious movements centered around I AM: The"I AM" Activity. document.write("Email the author here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web