Another contest: photograph yourself with FvF in an incongruous place

July 21, 2015 • 2:00 pm

Okay, we already have a photograph of reader Tom Czarny holding up Faith versus Fact in front of the Vatican. Now reader Mark Cagnetta has sent in a related photo, which came with this caption:

In tribute to your recent visit to Arizona I took this shot in front of the new Mormon Temple in Phoenix.

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Having two photos of course inspired a contest, especially now that the Trump Your Cat Contest is coming to an end (winner announced soon). Here are the rules for the new contest:

Send a photo of yourself (or a member of your family) holding Faith versus Fact in the most incongruous place or situation you can think of. Be creative. 

I’ll give people a whole month to think of cool photos. Deadline: August 20, 2015; one entry per person. NO PHOTOSHOPPING. If you have the book on Kindle, you can still find a way.

The winner will get a hardback of the book (first edition, first printing) autographed by me, made out to whomever you want, and with a cat of your choice drawn in it. Of course you’ll already have procured a copy of the book to take the photo, so if you wish I’ll substitute a paperback copy of WEIT (I have no more hardbacks).

Both Tom and Mark have been grandfathered into the contest.

p.s. Try this in front of mosques only at your own risk. . .

26 thoughts on “Another contest: photograph yourself with FvF in an incongruous place”

  1. I have a good idea but won’t reveal it until I have my picture in. I thought of doing as soon as I bought the book but now that it’s a contest I have to do it.

    I have a brand-new kitten but missed the trump your cat contest. I won’t miss this one!

    1. Can I ask which part of the country you live, assuming you’re in the U.S.?

      1. Duh. I got so excited I didn’t read it thoroughly the first time. My apologies.

  3. Just out of idle curiosity I wonder if anyone caught carrying that book while trying to enter Mecca would face the death penalty under Saudi law. Not that I Have any desire whatsoever to test that myself.

  4. Not quite relevant, and a bit late to put FvF on board but the quote of the week (or maybe the year) was in this mornings ‘Dominion’ here in Wellington in a column on the Pluto mission by Joe Bennet: “The thing has whizzed …through the freezing void of interstellar space where the only sound is the death rattle of theology.”

  5. I might try an over-the-shoulder selfie with my phone in one hand, whilst holding my Kindle Paperwhite in the other (showing the FvF cover), although it will probably look ridiculous… location TBD.

  6. Shame I don’t really do very many church gigs any more, else I’d have to figure out a way to sneak a photo from the stage whilst the choir is getting communion or something like that….

    b&

  7. “p.s. Try this in front of mosques only at your own risk. . .”

    One might say the same for the Church of Scientology.

  8. I’m trying to think of a good place to do this in Ottawa. Only thing that comes to mind is this weird vaguely hindu place that has lots of religous iconography.

    Oh! I know!

    (I’ll see if I can keep it secret though.)

    1. I was thinking of doing it standing next to some Jehova’s Witnesses handing out their pamphlets but they pick the day I bring my copy of Fact vs. Faith to work to be no shows. They’ve been in the same spot for every day for months and all of a sudden their don’t show up. I’ll try again tomorrow.

      2. Dashed unreliable of them.
        Our local blood-dodgers seem to be targettng the Polish community. At least, I think that’s the language they’re using for their pamphlets these days.

  9. Having two photos of course inspired a contest, especially now that the Trump Your Cat Contest is coming to an end

    That may be your aspiration, but will the readers (or their furry overlords) comply? That’s the question. Whether ’tis nobeler to be furrier on the head, or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous toupee-ery?
    (It started as “outrageous topiary”, but I knew I could pack more in there.)

  10. I took this today in front of the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Avenue here in Washington, DC. It’s a little clipped because I didn’t want to get off my bicycle and draw too much attention to myself. I was lucky because it is very common that as I pass by each day on my way home from work to encounter a stream of men (only, natch) coming out of the gate. 

      1. So I sent it to Jerry’s email adress listed at this web page. Hope that was the correct process. Thanks for the help.

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