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

theleg said:
Well thats a bit of a leap, surely. Just because it wasn't openly published on their site doesnt mean the policy was just made up.

Would be interesting to see if there are previous examples of this policy in action.
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Surely it's the kind of thing you would publish quite clearly though? And the fact the document was created just last week does seem to be quite a coincidence!
 
Haggisman said:
Surely it's the kind of thing you would publish quite clearly though? And the fact the document was created just last week does seem to be quite a coincidence!
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You would think so...but the idea of them having no policies whatsoever seems extremely unlikely to me.

Im sure more information will come out soon enough.
 
Haggisman said:
it's a bit cheeky to say it's against their policy when it's a policy they've just made up!
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Though a bit cheeky, it is still the wiser decision. Just because the policy was not written, it does not mean it hasn't been abided all this time. I have never seen political or religious adverts in the cinema.

I am not sure if the church is trying to imply that their reasoning for refusal is anything other than their reasoning of not wanting to offend other people but there really isn't much more too it than that.

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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Now this is ridiculous and could open up the floodgates to all sorts of stupid things. As long as a religious advert is then deemed visually appropriate there would little reasoning to refuse the advertisement. Imagine the uproar if all of a sudden you had the culty crew (Mormons, Scientologists...etc) showing their ads on the BBC/in Cinemas.
 
I said earlier it doesn't affect me as I've given up cinema going, but after reading this thread, I'm in the same camp as those that don't want to see it, or any ads for that matter, because if I did go, having paid to see the film the second last thing I want is a load of advertising drivel. The last thing is religious advertising drivel. An advert for the local curry house is at least of potential use.

I don't think "offended" would be the right word to describe how I'd feel, though. Probably it's more irritated, peeved, miffed.

I entirely support anyone else's right to whatever religious belief they wish, be it Christianity, Creationism or Scientology, as long as they don't pester me with it. But as far as I'm concerned, they're all equally drivel, and getting any form of religious drivel inflicted on me when I go to the cinema would be about as welcome as Jehovah's witnesses banging on my door. Or maybe less welcome than witnesses at my door because at least I haven't paid to be pestered by their garbage.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Though a bit cheeky, it is still the wiser decision. Just because the policy was not written, it does not mean it hasn't been abided all this time. I have never seen political or religious adverts in the cinema.
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I agree, but unfortunately it does put them on the back foot as far as trying to argue they were sticking by their policy!

On the flip side, if the decision does get overturned and the church is allowed to ride roughshod over the rights of heathen unbelievers (as per usual), then who's up for donating to get an advert for the FSM shown? :p
 
Haggisman said:
It's also pretty closed-minded to call religions like christianity "normal"; somehow implying that other religions are somehow abnormal?

Christianity is no more or less "normal" or "made-up" than any other religion, be it Buddhism, Islam, Jedi, Scientology, Shinto, Pastafarianism, etc. You can't prove their deity/deities doesn't/don't exist, therefore the only logical conclusion which can be drawn is that there is the possibility they do exist, ergo the religion is valid.
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When I typed "Christianity etc" I also meant other 'normal' religions like Buddhism, Islam, (not Jedi), Scientology, Shinto, Pastafarianism, etc and not a made up one that Lucas invented.
As far as I'm concerned they are all as mad as each other so hows that for being closed-minded?
 
Dimple said:
When I typed "Christianity etc" I also meant other 'normal' religions like Buddhism, Islam, (not Jedi), Scientology, Shinto, Pastafarianism, etc and not a made up one that Lucas invented.
As far as I'm concerned they are all as mad as each other so hows that for being closed-minded?
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Can you prove George Lucas invented it? Maybe he was just chosen as the messenger?
 
I think I'd have Scientology in the same category as Jedi. Both created by Sci-Fi writers in the 20th century.
 
Dimple said:
I thought about that but where nobody believes there is a Jedi religion I'm afraid 100s & 1000s follow Scientology.
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In the earlier centuries of the last millennium nobody thought the world was round. 100s and 1000s of idiots thought it was flat.
 
Uriel said:
Do you think Ron L Hubbard (or whatever his name was) believed in Scientology?
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No but as I stated above many 100s & 1000s do and a lot of them are willing to put up with a lot of crap to be part of the religion.
I watched a fascinating documentary on it the other week, they all need to be firebombed.
 
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