AIBU to find the Greggs nativity sausage really, really funny?

[Troutfin27]

Admittedly, I am an (ex Catholic) atheist but are there any Christians on here who also found it funny?

I love that Henry Hoover nativity.

mycats

If you say Jesus backwards......

Genius.

I am glad we can poke fun at our countries main religion. Proves we arent religious zealots.

I thought it was hilarious too.

Re mocking other religions - all to do with the power dynamics in society isn't it. As a white Christian-turned-atheist in Britain, I wouldn't mock a minority religion because I would feel like I was abusing my position of relative privilege. Actually, I wouldn't mock any religion other than Christianity because I don't know enough about them to know the difference between something most people find funny and something that is really offensive.

In other countries where other religions predominate without dominating society, I imagine there are occasional jokes poked at those religions too..

It is GENIUS marketing. Up your arse John Lewis

I thought it was great, admittedly I’m very hard to offend though

I’m a C of E Christian and doesn’t bother me at all.

I thought it was hilarious and am glad we can mock a religion like this.

I think the issue with mocking minority religions is that it tends to disintegrate into racism when it becomes "allowed" to take the mickey, and is punching down rather than up.

I'm a Christian. I thought it was very funny as did my Christian friends.

The henry one is fab

Mycats Proper LOL - you deserve some kind of baked prize for that

I'm an atheist but found it really disrespectful. I guess my Christian upbringing must have a lot of subliminal influence.

I was raised in a staunch catholic home (no longer stauch we all grew a bit and made up our minds elsewhere) i personally think its great i mean jesus fed the 5000 greggs are just trying to do the same .

Ill get flamed for that . Ah well. I dont get it personally . To be honest it could be worse Greggs could have done a Zoella.

Pleeeeease everyone, go on the Telegraph site in that link and vote. It's currently 66% saying the ad was appropriate, and it would be great if that percentage could go up.

Complainers would think my children totally ungodly. One year they did a nativity with their hamster as the baby. Sadly, Jesus proved very recalcitrant and kept running off.

I'm an atheist but found it really disrespectful.

Nonsense. A religion that can't take a joke isn't worth respecting.

Another Christian here who guffawed at the news this evening, thinks that you should be able to laugh at the things you love and who thinks Mycats deserves a Nobel Prize for quick thinking/humour/genius!

How can anyone be offended by a dodgy nativity scene.
Soon, all over the land the little baby jesus and his family are going to be represented by bonk eyed resin models, toilet rolls, scabby baby dolls and teddy bears.

'Tasteful' nativities are even worse. Horribly scary Aryan babies held in the arms of Marys in luxuriously designed robes whilst bearded accountant in a frock, Joseph looks leers on.

I laughed out loud when the news mentioned the sausage roll. Made my evening

I loved this line in the Telegraph article:

"Some complained after the image redacted Jesus in favour of a baked good."

Well, that's your opinion, Ceto. And mine is that it's disrespectful. So... there we go.

It was neither hilarious nor offensive. Anyway - they couldn't buy the kind of publicity it's generated so job done!