Cinema ban on the Lord's Prayer

[Leafitout]

Surely if anyone finds this advert offensive they can choose not to watch it. I can't see the problem with showing it.

I am not religious, I find it no more offensive than any advert trying to get me to buy the product. The product here is religion, lots of different religions portrayed by the look of it, it was quite moving really but won't sell me religion any more than 'i'm loving it' will sell me a burger. I guess I have more tolerance for others choices and beliefs than some posters who are clearly massively offended. meh it's just an advert.

lilac

I saw this this morning. The trailer wouldn't offend or bother me as such but I do think as we live in a diverse world/country then showing one faith is close to religious propaganda. Its fine in a church where people have chosen to respect and follow that religion.
I do feel it would be a bit like showing propaganda for war against terrorism. It's just not the time or place - as mentioned above when you have a captive audience.

I don't want to be subject to evangelism in the cinema - it's really not the place for it.

I don't want to be prayed at either - by any religion, much less when I'm in a packed cinema. They really went for the captive audience didn't they?

It's not so much I find it offensive, more annoying, irrelevant and inappropriate.

Prayer exists, myotherusername, so does the CoE, so does the website which is what the ad is for.

Unfortunately that is true. In essence then it's false advertising and therefore should be banned.

so you would all be absolutely fine if the local branch of Mormons decided to regale you all with the evils of christmas?

Or perhaps if Galahad the current Pagan High Priest in britain decided to share an advert of himself prancing around stone henge to promote Yuletide?

Or i know, how about the local Crowley followers used some ad time to promote a bit of friendly pre-christmas Satanism!

Adverts for cars and phones and other shit are commercial, they're partly what funds the cinemas.

My leisure time is not there for someone to use me as a captive audience to evangelise. Not fucking interested.

i dont watch songs of praise, i don't go to church, i dont listen to twats proselytizing on the street corner. I dont want it in my fucking cinema either.

NRTWT - The only people that are offended by this are those that live to be offended!! The fucking word offensive offends me!!! What a soulless country we live in where anything Christian is suddenly offensive. My SC had never heard the carol silent night, they aren't allowed to sing about God, I'm not religious but really? It's okay for songs like blurred lines to be played on the radio? What the fuck! There are not enough exclamation marks in the world to show how offended I am by those that are offended.

From what I heard on TV this morning the decision was made after they first agreed to the adverts. On the whole I agree with the ban. I certainly don't want to go to the cinema and watch promotions for different religions. Better not mention any I wouldn't want to see. So yes it's right.

Force feeding religion on our children in schools is way more offensive than an advert in a cinema.

Why don't we get more active about that?

lorelei9
if you went to the cinema and saw an advert for a cult or something that you considered to be dangerous, how would you feel?

If I thought an advert dangerous I would of course be annoyed, but from what I have heard of this advert (I haven't seen it, and I suspect most of the objectors here haven't seen it either) it seems to be quite gentle and contain no danger at all.

I can understand a devout atheist might be offended, but then as I said there are other adverts that may offend certain viewers.

I'm an atheist and no form of evangelism offends me. But I do think it's quite offensive to people of strongly held faith to tell them their faith is wrong and another is the only true faith. i think that pushing Christianity as the one true faith is insulting to Buddhists, Hindus, seihks, Jews, Muslims etc.

minnie maybe if you bothered to read the thread you'd understand what the issues are.

Instead you've chosen to be offended by people being offended? Very mature.

Singing silent night is no more 'forcing religion' down a child's throat than, singing santa clause is coming to town is forcing them to lie!! What a load of utter bollocks!!

Lilac, I find it very hard to read 3 pages full of the 'offended'! I can't be arsed! There's plenty more to be 'offended' about than a bloody advert . It's one thing not liking it, it's another entirely to be offended!

*Force feeding religion on our children in schools is way more offensive than an advert in a cinema.

Why don't we get more active about that?*

Exactly. I've withdrawn mine from religious (i.e. Christian) worship in school. It's high time we became a secular country.

I wouldn't be offended.

But I would be irritated. And I'm glad they've decided not to show it.

Just wondering if people remember how cross Christians got about the "There's probably no God......" Bus campaign .

I'm not offended btw - I just think it's fucking wrong.

The advert isn't offensive, but any form of evangelism of ideology to a captive audience is offensive - I wouldn't like to see party political broadcasts either.

I also find it a bit offensive that the CoE has money to spend on this sort of thing. It must have cost a lot just to make the advert, and will certainly cost a lot to show it before Star Wars. Even if that is funded by a private donor, the CoE should have more sense than to think that is a good use of its funds.

I'm embarrassed for them.

I dint think the prayer should be shown either, I don't want religion with my movie thanks

You might find though, minnie, that most people aren't actually offended by it and they've given reasons for why it shouldn't be in cinemas.

It shows you up quite badly when you just jump in and start berating people without rtft first.

m1nnie: I think it's probably less about people being offended and more about people being annoyed or irritated. Suppose you're Jewish, or Sikh, or atheist and you're sitting there waiting for the Star Wars film to start. You've watched various ads for alcohol or sofas or whatever it is they advertise in cinemas these days.

And then you watch this advert for Christianity. You don't agree with it and it puts your back up slightly. Perhaps it makes you feel less well-disposed to the next advert that follows, for an expensive watch or telling you to shop in John Lewis. Even if you're a Christian, you might watch the ad and think: "Hmm. Christmas is about peace and love, not materialism. Perhaps I should be giving money to the homeless, not spending it on fancy watches."

And that's exactly what the Digital Cinema Media Agency doesn't want. It wants people to be in a happy, anticipatory mood, and receptive to spending their money. That's why this isn't to do with offence, or freedom of speech, or anything like that. It's about money.

How much has this advert cost? May be they should use that money to try and help people rather than asking the magic man in the sky to grant wishes.