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

Pawnless Endgame said:
My manager was one of those born-again types, assuming pastor role to us minions. Some obliged, others didn't. Because of my hearing and sight loss though, the manager paid particular attention to me, attempting the conversion card almost daily. Because I didn't oblige, I was berated and put down and ended up with depression (although I didn't take time off work for it). I filed a grievance, but to no avail because the MD was quite religious too (although not a born-again). Eventually, my manager suspected that I was writing to my mum from my work's PC about his behaviour (which was true). So he asked the network engineer to install a keylogger on my PC called Remote Desktop Spy when I wasn't around. I later got caught red-handed and got sent to the MD's office. When I told him my motive, I just got let off with a verbal warning. However, the manager resigned just a month later because of this, and the network engineer got the chop soon after that. Karma :D I won't be preached. I only found out about the keylogger after this happened as I later noticed it as a process in task manager.
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For someone who has such a strong aversion to religion you seem to be very adept at playing the martyr...

Personally don't see the problem with advertising campaigns for religion. Its not as if they are trying to brainwash me and I can choose to pay attention or not. If its the policy not to show such advertisements then that's fair enough... fuss over nothing.

/Salsa
 
Churches have their own rules with what can happen in their buildings (issues with Yoga style fitness, Tai Chi, boys dressing up as girls in daytime clubs). If DCM won't allow it, use Pearl&Dean or a different method. Posters in bathroom, postcard display, cinema stub advert... or they could use the power of prayer instead of a lawsuit to get the advert shown. If anything they've had more coverage with the news than they would have with a cinema reaction, without having to pay for it!
 
I do agree with one thing in here, I shouldn't have to watch adverts of any kind once I've paid to see whatever movie it maybe. I don't mind the previews for other movies but adverts, do they make the movies cheaper to see?
 
Hitman_Leon said:
I do agree with one thing in here, I shouldn't have to watch adverts of any kind once I've paid to see whatever movie it maybe. I don't mind the previews for other movies but adverts, do they make the movies cheaper to see?
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very likely yes they do act as a kind of subsidy.

as movie attendance drops expect more ads.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
My manager was one of those born-again types, assuming pastor role to us minions. Some obliged, others didn't. Because of my hearing and sight loss though, the manager paid particular attention to me, attempting the conversion card almost daily. Because I didn't oblige, I was berated and put down and ended up with depression (although I didn't take time off work for it). I filed a grievance, but to no avail because the MD was quite religious too (although not a born-again). Eventually, my manager suspected that I was writing to my mum from my work's PC about his behaviour (which was true). So he asked the network engineer to install a keylogger on my PC called Remote Desktop Spy when I wasn't around. I later got caught red-handed and got sent to the MD's office. When I told him my motive, I just got let off with a verbal warning. However, the manager resigned just a month later because of this, and the network engineer got the chop soon after that. Karma :D I won't be preached. I only found out about the keylogger after this happened as I later noticed it as a process in task manager.
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People like that enrage me, i think people are free to believe or think whatever they want, so long as they keep it to themselves.

If you have two options, either preach to me, or get a massive rucksack, and randomly sprint into a US embassy screaming allahu akbar, the latter is a better option.
 
I'd have probably found it mildly more interesting than the dross star wars will likely be. Shown or not I don't really care, what I do know though is by not showing it, the media coverage has given it vastly greater coverage than the original advert ever could have.
 
Advertising has completely the opposite effect on me, the more I see it, the more i'll remember to have nothing to do with it. This is multiplied by how much the advert attempts to play on emotion, to lure people away from common sense.

I guess in a way I use advertising to gauge how little a company respects their customers.

I would probably be slightly offended by this, but that because I am by most advertising. But I don't let it get to me, just a little mental note in case its ever relevant later.
 
Glaucus said:
There's no way they didn't know about the policy or what the outcome would be.
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Why would the CofE go out of their way to learn about the DMC's policy on religious messages before making their ad? It's far more likely they just assumed it would be allowed.
 
Glaucus said:
Wtf. If you spend money like that you do research. Even the quickest bit of research would show their policy.
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This is the CofE run by career theists and well meaning volunteers, not a cutting edge business... I mean, Occam's Razor here...
 
I have no problem with the no religious or political advert policy. It's just the claim that it offends people I think is daft.

The Up-Side is I don't have to watch Nigel Garage grinning at me though his pint, while muttering something about the EU either.
 
Glaucus said:
Bahhhaaahhhaaa, its an extremely well run and extremely wealthy business
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No, it's a poorly run organisation that benefits from generous donations by people who are brought up to believe in giving money regularly to the organisation in a far more generous way than they would to anything else.
 
Glaucus said:
Wtf. If you spend money like that you do research. Even the quickest bit of research would show their policy.
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Well they had meetings with DCM beforehand where various things, including cost were discussed. You would think at that point DCM might have thought it prudent to mention to their prospective Church clients that they have no religious advertising policy.
 
Pudney said:
Why would the CofE go out of their way to learn about the DMC's policy on religious messages before making their ad? It's far more likely they just assumed it would be allowed.
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kinda like saying "hey lets make an advert for day time tv that involves topples strippers then complain when were told it cant be shown"
 
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