Cinema ad banned; church sues

[Pat Mustard]

Less than 5% attend CofE services on a weekly basis. Guess they thought they could advertise to get some new recruits...before the new Star Wars film.

They should have included some vague references to the force in there, then at least they could have duped some of the sillier fanboys into attending an Alpha course of whatever.

Not like it'd work anyways. All they need do is look next door, and see the rcc with free primetime advertising on state media (RTE1 and RTE Radio 1 before the main news bulletins both give out the angelus) have driven numbers in their pews from 85% to the super high 30ish% in the last thirty years (10% of whom actively disbelieve god, based on the bishops' conference's own polling numbers).

The fact of the matter is, that as knowledge enters a person's brain, religion gets driven out.