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?

Full of assumptions here.......maybe the sausage roll self identifies as a beef sausage roll under all that pastry.

I'm catholic and i find it amusing. I see it as the sausage roll is so awesome it's like the second coming, not that Jesus is a sausage roll.

I’m a Christian and was not offended. Made me smile! A sausage roll cast in the role of Jesus is hopefully reminding people about the true story of Christmas, the birth of the Messiah. It would have been a great touch if the sausage role had had been wrapped in swaddling clothes or whatever but hey ho.

When somebody decides we shouldn't do something because it would offend some group, when they're not in that group.

Where did I say they shouldn't have done it? The OP asked if Christians found it offensive. I commented that I wasn't Christian, yet still found it disrespectful. I don't think they should remove the ads. I just don't like them. It won't even put me off Greggs, I like their sausage rolls.

It's not funny to me, but if you arent religious.... you wouldn't be fussed about it.

It's incredibly foolish and I can't understand how they didn't think this would cause offence tbh.

And I'm Christian..Catholic.

It's not funny to me, but if you aren't religious.... you wouldn't be fussed about it.

Lots of Christians aren’t fussed about it.

Ironically, this is an old tweet from one of the people infuriated by the advert.

Atheist here, I hope it didn't offend Christians too much, and I think it's a credit to Christianity that nobody thinks that Christians are going to go batshit mental over a mild mickey-taking like this.

The way Mary is looking at that sausage roll... I've gazed on the odd Gregg's sausage roll with exactly that look of loving adoration

It's incredibly foolish and I can't understand how they didn't think this would cause offence tbh.

My DM is a devout christian. She's not fussed in the slightest. Neither are many of her christian friends.

It's Pagan anyway, well it was until the christians nicked yuletide and renamed it Christmas.

Christian here. I didn't think it was particularly funny, but didn't get offended either. Sausage rolls are pretty far down my list of things to get worked up about, and I think it's it's a bit scary when any group insists they mustn't be laughed at (unless it's a group where the thing the people have in common is a particular sort of suffering).

Some people are religious in name only though. Religion really doesn't mean anything to them.... so no need for them to be offended.

A bit like the very religious man, who serves Eucharist on Sundays ... deciding to give up sex with his OW for lent... it's a joke. And yes..This is true

...but it's not worth dying in a ditch over. It's simply poor taste for an advert. (No pun intended)

Some people are religious in name only though. Religion really doesn't mean anything to them.... so no need for them to be offended.

I go to church twice on Sundays, run a home group, teach Sunday school, am on the church pc, etc. Does that pass your bar for being a proper Christian? I’m still not offended.

Some people are religious in name only though. Religion really doesn't mean anything to them.... so no need for them to be offended.

You think someone that's been going to church for thirty years, works at the Sunday school, leads the fellowship group weekly and goes more than once a week to all the bible meetings and prayer meetings, twice on Sundays, is religious in name only?

I’m not a Christian and I did smile at first but it’s shit how disrespectful people are towards Christianity. You can’t get away with doing it to any other religion.

It's simply poor taste for an advert. (No pun intended)

Poor taste took me a minute to click then!

It isn't though. Not liking something does not mean it's in poor taste. I can't stand the flash advert because I can't stand Queen. I've not yet petitioned for them them to take the advert down just because I don't like it.

If we want to get real semantic, it was however, in poor taste to steal yuletide, and rename it Christmas hoping no one would notice but you don't see the Pagans protesting every year at their festival being stamped all over.

I'm a Christian. I wasn't offended it made me laugh

You can’t get away with doing it to any other religion.

MissEliza what do you mean by you cant get away with doing it to another religion? Charlie Hebdo certainly didnt. ISIS saw to that.

Why are gods such precious snowflakes that they would get their knickers in a twist over a sausage roll?

I'm a Christian, I don't find it at all offensive, but its not particularly funny. Its just a sausage roll shrugs

We have a nativity set to which we have added figurines of a dinosaur, a blues brother, and the kid from star wars.

I'm catholic. No offence here. But I do think if it wasn't a Christian relidgion the outrage would be far greater!

They were discussing this on LBC this morning - I am not remotely religious and I only go to the C/ E church for the usual weddings/ funerals etc, but I do find it disrespectful and I just think that Greggs were well aware that people wouldnt ' find it funny' and just done this for more publicity. Its always the christian church that is thought of as the ones ' that can take a joke ' but a big corporation wouldn;t dream of disrespecting another religion. its just my opinion and I am not normally one to be po faced about things , but I just think its not in the best taste ( no pun intended) and they should just leave christians to celebrate how they want to at this time of year without making fun of them.

But I do think if it wasn't a Christian relidgion the outrage would be far greater!

Your right, but that is probably the burden of having christianity as the state religion. It has to set an example.

but a big corporation wouldn;t dream of disrespecting

Greggs is a big corporation, isn’t it? In the U.K. at least. There’s one on pretty much every high street, there’s two in my local shopping centre.

I know they are huge, but I was just thinking of other much bigger organisations and how they wouldn't have done this - why don't these companies just think a bit before doing this type of thing? Just leave people to celebrate Christmas as they wish!