{"id":2703,"date":"2016-02-09T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:05:48","slug":"church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/02\/church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Scientology Debuted &#8216;Who Am I?&#8217; Ad on Super Bowl 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"article-summary\" style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #666666;\">Asking the eternal question \u201cWho am I?\u201d, the spot aired\u00a0in multiple U.S. regions during the\u00a0Super Bowl 50\u00a0championship match between the Broncos and Panthers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"marbot-15 html-content\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<p><span class=\"date-line\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Los Angeles, CA, February 8, 2016 (Newswire.com) \u2013\u00a0<\/span>For the fourth consecutive year, the Church of Scientology debuted a new ad aimed at Super Sunday audiences during the big game between Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientology Super Bowl Ad 2016  - &quot;Who Am I?&quot; TV Commercial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eqv4Ex-N4BU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201cReleasing a new Scientology ad during the game has become a tradition,\u201d said Bob Adams, spokesperson for the Church of Scientology and former Denver Broncos tight end. \u201cLast year, the theme of our ad was \u2018Welcome to the Age of Answers,\u2019 and we wanted to expand on that and invite people to our website where they are welcome to watch hundreds of videos that explain the basic principles and Scientology. They are also invited to enroll in one of 19 free Scientology Courses via the site or mobile\u00a0<span class=\"nanospell-typo\">app<\/span>\u00a0to gain first-hand knowledge or how this spiritual technology really does provide these otherwise esoteric answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Super Sunday is the most talked about advertising day of the year. The ad, which aired on Sunday, Feb. 7, is immediately recognizable as a Scientology ad from its impact and the way it weaves image and music together into a poetic 30-second spot.<\/p>\n<p>With science providing answers to virtually every question today, this year\u2019s Scientology ad<span class=\"nanospell-typo\">zeroes<\/span>\u00a0in on the one question that can\u2019t be resolved with a test tube or supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in an age of technological wonder,\u201d the ad begins. It is technology that has changed our practical expectancies, as we know we can get what we need \u201cat the touch of a button, the world\u2019s knowledge at our fingertips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet with the \u201cinfinite source of answers to any question we might ask,\u201d there is still one that has not been resolved, it says. And that this is the answer we thirst for.<\/p>\n<p>The ad then closes the gap between the near-infinite answers available from science and the one that is\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em><span class=\"nanospell-typo\">answered\u2014<\/span><a style=\"color: #1357a8;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientology.org\/whoami\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWho am I?\u201d\u00a0<\/a>showing that the answer \u201clies at the intersection of technology and spirituality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad ends by bringing the viewer to the Scientology website with the letters spelling \u201cspiritual technology\u201d blending together into \u201cScientology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking the eternal question \u201cWho am I?\u201d, the spot aired\u00a0in multiple U.S. regions during the\u00a0Super Bowl 50\u00a0championship match between the Broncos and Panthers. Los Angeles, CA, February 8, 2016 (Newswire.com) \u2013\u00a0For the fourth consecutive year, the Church of Scientology debuted a new ad aimed at Super Sunday audiences during the big game between Denver Broncos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,1181,1182],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-scientology","tag-super-bowl","tag-who-am-i"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church of Scientology Debuted &#039;Who Am I?&#039; Ad on Super Bowl 50<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asking the eternal question &quot;Who am I?&quot;, the spot aired\u00a0in multiple U.S. regions during the\u00a0Super Bowl 50\u00a0championship match between the Broncos and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/02\/church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church of Scientology Debuted &#039;Who Am I?&#039; Ad on Super Bowl 50\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asking the eternal question &quot;Who am I?&quot;, the spot aired\u00a0in multiple U.S. regions during the\u00a0Super Bowl 50\u00a0championship match between the Broncos and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/02\/church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Scientology Beliefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-02-10T00:21:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-10-24T12:05:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ScientologyBeliefs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ScientologyBeliefs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/02\/church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2016\/02\/church-of-scientology-debuted-who-am-i-ad-on-super-bowl-50\/\",\"name\":\"Church of Scientology Debuted 'Who Am I?' 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