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To think the parish newsletter is not appropriate

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NikoBellic · 28/03/2015 21:51

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?

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IonaMumsnet · 29/03/2015 16:43

Afternoon folks. This is all getting a bit hot, cross and bunfighty. We're happy for people to express their views on any religion, but could we all try to do so in a polite and civil way? The thread does also seem to have wandered very much off topic. We've come along way from junk mail to the existence or otherwise of Christ! Could we keep responses relevant to the original post, if at all possible? Thanks!

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IonaMumsnet · 29/03/2015 17:02

Hello again,
Hi Hak - we've only deleted the one post, which we thought was just a bit personal and unpleasant in tone and therefore was a personal attack (hopefully that anwers your question, too, CaffeLatte - it was really about tone rather than content). We didn't feel anything else was worthy of deletion, but we did think the tone of some of the posts was getting a bit heated and also we felt a bit sorry for the OP whose thread seems to be getting slightly hijacked here. As a general rule of thumb though, we tend not to delete criticisms of any faith, but we will delete if it's a criticism of people who follow that faith, if you see what we mean. So 'Christianity is awful' = fair enough, that's an opinion. 'Christians are awful' = not fair enough. We've not had any of that here, we really just posted as a polite reminder that it's nice to be nice.

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