To think the parish newsletter is not appropriate

[NikoBellic]

I'm not talking about the notices regarding the horticultural society, nor am I referring to the village "300 Club", or Gwen's amazing contribution to the village hall this month...

...I realise that unless you live in a rural area, much like fibre broadband, you won't get this...

Each month the parish council post a newsletter through my front door. A quaint little wedge of folded paper with some useful information on local gas safe engineers and who is raising what for which charity, interspersed with reminders to pick up dog poo. The outer cover is usually a lot quality 1995 clip art file along religious lines, printed onto coloured paper of some sort. This month, for the start of spring and the Easter period, its a sort of yellow. Its the cover that I'm not completely comfortable with...

We always hear, particularly from the type of person who lives in a village and reads the parish newsletter, that children should not be subjected to images of violence, sex, and general "bad stuff"...

SO WHY IS OK TO POST A PICTURE OF A BLEEDING MAN BEING CRUCIFIED THROUGH MY LETTERBOX!? (Even if it is in 1995 clip art form).

If I were to post an image of a man being hung through someone's front door I'd have to face, at the very least, a police caution. Seems like double standards from where I'm sat.

In an area where Nigel Farage gets a pat on the back (a man who is offended by seeing a breastfeeding mother in a pub...) why does religion get special dispensation?

Is it OK because its, you know, Jesus?

Am I being unreasonable?

A drawing of a fictional character

Well at least we agree on something!

Do you object to seeing cartoons of people being stretched on a medieval torturer's rack (a cartoon staple image)?

Is someone landed from Mars and read this thread, they would presume that Great Britain (and the countries of which it consists) had many happy years of paganism, 10 years of christianity, and centuries of no one believing much in anything, and then those f-ers the christians, based on those 10 years alone think they can post shocking, horrific, never before seen, pictures of torture through people's letterboxes.

this would be a much more interesting thread if people actually dealt with the reality. then the debate might mean something. at the moment to me it is a bunch of people who are in denial about at least 1500 years of british history arrayed against people who believe in a christian god.

wish it could have been more nuanced than this.

Who was that saint who had her breasts cut off?

stagatha

Maybe that would be an appropriate scene to portray in clip art on the front of the parish newsletter? Or not?

"bunch of people who are in denial about at least 1500 years of british history arrayed against people who believe in a christian god"
Is it possible that you are reading a different thread?

YADNBU Niko, discusting behaviour :(

May I suggest you nail up your letterbox, and bin the television.

No Hak. not at all. Is it possible I just disagree with your point of view?

No problem with you disagreeing- but I don't think anyone has been in denial about 1500 years of British history. What led you to say that?

And why is it relevant to a thread about what images it's appropriate to put unsolicited through somebody's letterbox?

Totally agree with the OP. Double standards around christianity abound.

I have an oversensitive 3 yo who I wouldn't take into a church because she would have nightmares for a week. So please please don't bring the church and its attendant horrors to me, unsolicited with the no warning.

Hak, couldn't be bothered parsing through the threads to show where I got that impression. but I did. in spades. there it is. Feel free to disagree with my interpretation of many of the posts on this thread.

this isn't my first post on this thread either. I have already said that I think the OP's position is logical.

I highly suspect Canyou is talking about some of my posts at the very least, and if that is the case, I can recommend that he/she searches my name and re-reads them.

If someone landed from Mars and read this thread they would have given up long before the end- as ought to have. I am not longer baffled, but it is by far the silliest I have seen on MN, and that is saying something!

No longer- rather than not longer.

If someone had landed from Mars they'd have better things to do than read a thread on Mumsnet I suspect

QueenBean.

Mehitabel - you seem to like are company though.

our company

This thread reminded me of a thread I started after a similar irritation a couple of Easters ago here.

nico headin hands depressing to read your views

Hahahaha headinhands that ad is creepy as hell.

I am alive and I am coming back. I would love to come into your life and you will be ready for me.

LTB, ring 101 and report for stalking/harassment

Okay, I'll bite. How is it depressing?

Yes I am also wondering why it is depressing? Strange choice of word!