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Woollyback wrote:good job it wasn't about mohamed, it'd have embassies on fire left right & centre and a big bag of fatwahs on my head

WW3 would have started

Emerald Red wrote:I'm Catholic, but I sort of laughed and was sort of offended at the same time. Is that a real ad, like? Jes...I mean, f*ckin hell, they've got some balls if it is.

Sabre wrote:

Emerald Red wrote:I'm Catholic, but I sort of laughed and was sort of offended at the same time. Is that a real ad, like? Jes...I mean, f*ckin hell, they've got some balls if it is.

I'm Catholic too. I feel more offended when our society converts Christmas in a marketing experience and everything is aimed in order you spend money mate.

So in an hypocrital way, society uses Jesus once a year so that you buy more. This is just the same, selling something, with a bit of humour. But Christmas treatment offends me much more than that advert.

Emerald Red wrote:

Sabre wrote:

Emerald Red wrote:I'm Catholic, but I sort of laughed and was sort of offended at the same time. Is that a real ad, like? Jes...I mean, f*ckin hell, they've got some balls if it is.

I'm Catholic too. I feel more offended when our society converts Christmas in a marketing experience and everything is aimed in order you spend money mate.

So in an hypocrital way, society uses Jesus once a year so that you buy more. This is just the same, selling something, with a bit of humour. But Christmas treatment offends me much more than that advert.

I know what you mean. JC's been replaced by colored lights, a big green tree, and a bearded red suit wearing fat bloke called Santa. The ironic thing is, is that even though Jesus is being capitalized on, there is no major mention of him at the time of the year. It's when the word Christ gets replaced by an 'X' that p*sses me off. Why do it?! Why take the man's name away from what is his birthday?

Not trying to be too controversial here but the lights and the tree are the original symbols of the season--the pagan festival of Yule.  Like many pagan festivals (e.g. Easter, Halloween), the Christians just came along and superimposed their narrative on top.  In fact, I've heard theories that suggest that Jesus of Nazareth was actually born in October sometime but the whole "light of the world" angle plays better in association with the Yule celebration of lights and evergreen trees (a reminder of nature's inevitable rebirth at a time of cold and darkness).  Not up on my Santa lore though, so who knows what that fat f.uck has to do with anything.