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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 3:10 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2015 at 3:51 am by robvalue.)
Too right. We already sit through about 45 minutes or something of adverts and trailers. If you then add religious propaganda from every religion that wants to jump on the bandwagon, we'll never see the fucking film. If I want to know about Christianity, I'll go into one of the eighty billion churches.
I wonder what Christians would say if they had to watch me telling them how the FSM is the true God before their film. Or is it only OK to remind people about religions that everyone already knows about?
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 3:48 am
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I suspect this is really about the church getting desperate. Numbers are dropping. This is the first time I've ever heard about the church trying to weasel such blatant propaganda into private venues. I bet they are trying to guilt some paper Christians back into church regularly.
PS: If this bullshit stands, I have a suspicion I may be converting to Satanism and taking advantage of the new policies.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 4:01 am
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Let's all put some money together and make an ad about the dangers of childhood indoctrination.
We'll show little Muslim kiddies proudly waving around AK-47's and some Christian rednecks loaded to the hilt with all their prepper stashes, some KKK, and the ad will finish with:all these people have one thing in common, religion.
We'll politely ask the cinema owners to show it before the CoE ad.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 4:16 am
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Good idea! I expect that churches have also agreed to show trailers for the latest films before every service.
I might just make my own Christian film, showing where the bible tells us that slavery, rape and genocide are all acceptable and that obeying strange voices in your head is a good way to act.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 5:19 pm
(November 25, 2015 at 3:10 am)robvalue Wrote: Too right. We already sit through about 45 minutes or something of adverts and trailers. If you then add religious propaganda from every religion that wants to jump on the bandwagon, we'll never see the fucking film. If I want to know about Christianity, I'll go into one of the eighty billion churches.
I wonder what Christians would say if they had to watch me telling them how the FSM is the true God before their film. Or is it only OK to remind people about religions that everyone already knows about?
At least a FSM advert would be shorter than a religious commercial that is pandering a belief and it would go something like this
Intro
Don't believe in god(s)? That's okay we don't believe either.
Outro
Google FSM or Use #FSM in search.
There no pandering it's straight and to the point.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 5:30 pm
(November 25, 2015 at 4:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Good idea! I expect that churches have also agreed to show trailers for the latest films before every service.
I might just make my own Christian film, showing where the bible tells us that slavery, rape and genocide are all acceptable and that obeying strange voices in your head is a good way to act.
Maybe a film about Abraham told from the perspective of Isaac?
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 6:06 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: 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. Think you'll find it's a lot less than that.
I live in a town of about 100,000. If you could round up all the church goers of ANY denomination on a Sunday morning I'd be amazed if it amounted to more than 1000. People who go to church on Sunday probably don't lie on a survey and say they don't. The other way round . . . not so much.
Even the CofE says 2%.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 6:08 pm
(November 25, 2015 at 5:30 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: (November 25, 2015 at 4:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Good idea! I expect that churches have also agreed to show trailers for the latest films before every service.
I might just make my own Christian film, showing where the bible tells us that slavery, rape and genocide are all acceptable and that obeying strange voices in your head is a good way to act.
Maybe a film about Abraham told from the perspective of Isaac?
That would be just the ticket!
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 6:09 pm
(November 25, 2015 at 5:19 pm)dyresand Wrote: (November 25, 2015 at 3:10 am)robvalue Wrote: Too right. We already sit through about 45 minutes or something of adverts and trailers. If you then add religious propaganda from every religion that wants to jump on the bandwagon, we'll never see the fucking film. If I want to know about Christianity, I'll go into one of the eighty billion churches.
I wonder what Christians would say if they had to watch me telling them how the FSM is the true God before their film. Or is it only OK to remind people about religions that everyone already knows about?
At least a FSM advert would be shorter than a religious commercial that is pandering a belief and it would go something like this
Intro
Don't believe in god(s)? That's okay we don't believe either.
Outro
Google FSM or Use #FSM in search.
There no pandering it's straight and to the point.
But... what about the beery volcano? People really need to know about that.
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RE: Cinema ad banned; church sues
November 25, 2015 at 10:05 pm
So, like really, seriously, nobody, anywhere considers the Church of England to be the One True Faith, do they ??
We don't have to polygraph the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Queen or anyone on the subject, it's a given they'd fail any test of religious sincerity.
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