Lord's Prayer cinema ad snub 'bewilders' Church of England

Are they paying for the advertising slot? If they arent being given it for free because of their religious status then i dont have a problem with it personally.

I find the advert distasteful but I also find the other crap adverts on at the cinema distasteful.

but at the end of the day, if no religion or politics is their policy, thats that....obviously the people involved wanted to drum up some publicity.
 
I just think they're concerned with all the recent religious propaganda and free air time that their religion is being out manoeuvred by another.
 
Raz said:
More about it not being appropriate for paying customers rather than a Freedom of Speech issue.

Wouldn't expect the Church to promote Star Wars on Christmas day, not because of a Freedom Of Speech issue but because it wouldn't be appropriate.
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What, and adverts are appropriate for paying customers? Don't you think that's weird? You've paid for your ticket and you still have to sit through ads. Lots of ads, so that the film you paid to see starts a good 20-30 minutes after the published time. So the cinema gets ad revenue on top of income from ticket sales and overpriced snacks. Seems a bit of a "having your cake and eating it" situation.

As for the religious singing thing? As a convinced and fairly strident atheist, I find it no more offensive than any other advert. I'll just ignore it along with the rest of them.
 
It wouldn't offend my but it would kinda annoy me, the cinema aint cheap & it's bad enough having to sit thru ads with out having some one foist their sky pixie on me as well, I mean I am essentially a captive audience after all, I would not appreciate it.
 
NickK said:
I just think they're concerned with all the recent religious propaganda and free air time that their religion is being out manoeuvred by another.
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Sorry had to bite reel me in! :)

A blind man can see in 100 years it will be irrelevant and stomped on, They know the days of $$$ are coming to an end, And they hate that. Where were they when the poor were being crapped on? I think it is just desserts to deny them the advertisement over Christmas, Thier traditional money maker.
 
I think it's inappropriate to have ANY religious message/call to prayer etc in a cinema before a movie starts. If we grant this to the C of E where will it end ? Mormons, Scientologists, Quakers, Baptists, Jews, Muslims etc.Thousands of denominations will jump in wanting to promulgate their faith. No thanks.
 
Dis86 said:
Bit of an odd one! Many movies portray various religious themes, including star wars. Jedi being a formally recognised religion!
I fail to see how it's offensive in the slightest!
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Jedi is formally recognised by who as a religion? It was allocated a code for the 2001 UK census but I understood that was because it was a common answer and not because it was officially recognised as a religion. Unless it has changed recently and I've missed the status change?

SlyReaper said:
What, and adverts are appropriate for paying customers? Don't you think that's weird? You've paid for your ticket and you still have to sit through ads. Lots of ads, so that the film you paid to see starts a good 20-30 minutes after the published time. So the cinema gets ad revenue on top of income from ticket sales and overpriced snacks. Seems a bit of a "having your cake and eating it" situation.
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Even more annoying are the unskippable "don't pirate this film" adverts before I can watch the DVD that I've bought. I'm really not the demographic that they need to be targeting, if I had pirated the film I'd be watching it straight away without a sanctimonious message about stealing films.

I would point out that I don't know how much is brought in from the adverts at the start of films, it may be that it does help with the marginal films where there's not much profit to be made so perhaps without those adverts you wouldn't see many films get a cinema release.

SlyReaper said:
As for the religious singing thing? As a convinced and fairly strident atheist, I find it no more offensive than any other advert. I'll just ignore it along with the rest of them.
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Like you if it didn't appeal I'd ignore it along with the rest of the adverts, I don't think it's offensive but nor do I think it's likely to have any persuading effect on me to do, think or say anything that I didn't already believe.
 
I'd just read about this on the BBC website and tbh I'm glad that its not going to be published at cinemas.

Whilst I don't find the advert "offensive" in the traditional sense, as a stead fast atheist I feel that the content is a load of nonsense and is not something that I have any interest in being forced to watch.

Likewise, if it was an atheist organisation producing an advert I also think that it should not be published in cinemas as it is clearly not the time nor the place for this kind of stuff!
 
Im glad they pulled it, id be looking around the cinema giving it a wtf if I had seen that.

Keep religion in the home and places of worship, its quite simple.

A comment from FB - "It is the perfect place to spread the good news. Everyone else is spreading some news- violence, sexual immorality, etc.. why can't Christians chose this medium to spread the Good news of Christ? Why discriminate against Christians? This IS discrimination"
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Absolutely mental.
 
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semi-pro waster said:
Even more annoying are the unskippable "don't pirate this film" adverts before I can watch the DVD that I've bought. I'm really not the demographic that they need to be targeting, if I had pirated the film I'd be watching it straight away without a sanctimonious message about stealing films.
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Their thinking is old school marketing driving the regulatory system - attempting to make you feel justified and filled with good self that you have bought the movie.

In reality, just as you've stated, pirates simply remove the crap they don't want leaving the modern user "engagement" to simply have a really crap experience instead. Perhaps they're trying to drive people back to the cinema or to piracy so they can sue/fine them as an unlimited cap revenue stream instead only being able to charge small amounts for a really crappy film without imagination that was given a 10 dollar budget..
 
dowie said:
so they're basically just sticking to their policy
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Which is how it should be.

Why would I want to see non TV or film related ads when going to the cinema? Hell even related ads are tedious enough. Go in for an 8PM airing, but have to sit there through 30 minutes of ads and trailers? Just play the damn film.
 
Stephen Slack, the Church's chief legal adviser, warned the banning of the advert could "give rise to the possibility of legal proceedings" under the Equality Act, which bans commercial organisations from refusing services on religious grounds.
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Is that what Jesus would've done?
 
Luckystrike123 said:
I'd just read about this on the BBC website and tbh I'm glad that its not going to be published at cinemas.

Whilst I don't find the advert "offensive" in the traditional sense, as a stead fast atheist I feel that the content is a load of nonsense and is not something that I have any interest in being forced to watch.

Likewise, if it was an atheist organisation producing an advert I also think that it should not be published in cinemas as it is clearly not the time nor the place for this kind of stuff!
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This is my thoughts too.
 
Luckystrike123 said:
I'd just read about this on the BBC website and tbh I'm glad that its not going to be published at cinemas.

Whilst I don't find the advert "offensive" in the traditional sense, as a stead fast atheist I feel that the content is a load of nonsense and is not something that I have any interest in being forced to watch.

Likewise, if it was an atheist organisation producing an advert I also think that it should not be published in cinemas as it is clearly not the time nor the place for this kind of stuff!
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This exactly.
 
I agree with the ruling. In the public space it's best to stand on neutral ground when it comes to religious or political views.

Say yes and annoy the atheists and anti-theists. Say no and upset the faith.

If it's against policy then the faith or faithless is still declined and if they are still upset with that then it's their own poor attitude.
 
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