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It's hard to debate this issue because the question itself is...off. Commercials for Christian fund raising? When I see a starving child in some part of the world being helped through the Christian's Children Fund, I feel bad for the children. I consider how much and even if I can give. I don't rush to a random church of any random Christian denomination and become a member. Candy in the shape of a religious symbol? None actually comes to mind save the floral cross pattern from a sugar egg I came across once. I ate it. I didn't have a sudden change of faith.

These things that you call advertisements are, in my opinion, nothing of the sort. OK, the Christian fund raising is advertising, but for a charity, not for the religion. People of that faith may give because it IS a Christian charity. People of other faiths or no faith at all may give DESPITE the religious affiliation. Or maybe not at all. But if you feel the need to go to church to because the word Christian was used within earshot, that's about your issues, not about the commercial.

I don't like religious people coming to my home like door-to-door sale's people or stopping me on the street to "share the good news". I've heard it, thanks. But that doesn't mean they should hide all evidence of their beliefs. They have a right to it, just as we have a right not to join them.

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