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The Mormon Church is for Sale. On eBay.

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I just noticed this: Go to Philocrites’ blog and look at the google ads on the sidebar. (The ads run according to some pre-set computer algorithms that advertise for things relating to the topics discussed.) This particular post discusses a Mormon baptism, and the ads included, on a recent viewing, links to “Mormon dating” . . . “Mormon beliefs Biblical?” . . . “Mormon dating” again . . . so far, so good — ads for the kinds of things one would expect the algorithm to come up with. And then we get to:

“Mormon Church for Sale. Discount Mormon church! Check out the deals now! www.ebay.com”.

Conspiracy theorists everywhere, please take note. The Mormon Church is for sale. On eBay. At a discount. Paypal accepted. Don’t let this auction slip away! Check Philocrites to see if it’s still in the sidebar!

17 comments for “The Mormon Church is for Sale. On eBay.”

  1. A couple of years ago, there was a town for sale on ebay. Looks like the stakes (pun intended) have been set even higher now.

  3. Yipee! I won the auction!

    I’m now the proud owner of a Mormon church that’s headquarters in Independence and has 250,000 members. Apparently, they lack an official leader right now, but I plan to remedy that soon.

  5. DKL,
    Are you taking resumes?
    I am willing to change my name to Smith if the right position opens up.

  7. John,

    It’s the result of Google’s goofy algorithm. It takes whatever you’re looking at and pops up an ebay ad offering that item for sale.

    So if I’m looking at a post about cars, the ebay ad will say “Cars for sale. Discount cars.” If I’m looking at a page referencing books, it will say “Books for sale. Discount books.”

    And if I’m looking at a page referencing Mormon church, well, the little algorithm goes to work and comes up with an ebay ad offering “Mormon church for sale.”

  9. Adam, Does that mean you will be writing a new edition of Adam Smith’s ecconomics and the invisible mormon hand?

    Personally, I can’t wait for philosopher kings to make a come back!

  10. Kaimi, was there really a church for sale on ebay (I didn’t have a chance to go there and check it out)?

  11. No, no actual church for sale — just a goofy web ad generated by the mindless ebay algorithm.

  12. I was trying to formulate a clever Adam Smith joke. Looks like you beat me to it, Charles.

    And, Kaimi: Are you calling me a liar?

  14. I didn’t say I’d change my name to “Adam Smith.” Just Smith, thank you. My next career move would be to change my name to a symbol, so I could be known as “the RLDS prophet formerly known as Smith”.

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