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The 'Funny (ha, ha)' side of religion
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Greggs is a bakery chain which makes and sells sausage rolls.
Greggs recognizes and celebrates christmas.
Greggs decided to connect the two.
Lossage ensues.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/16/christian-greggs-sausage-roll-jesus-bakery-chain
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Greggs is a bakery chain which makes and sells sausage rolls.
Greggs recognizes and celebrates christmas.
Greggs decided to connect the two.
I don't see what the problem is
some people just have no sense of humour
Like these guys:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/bakery-apologises-for-swapping-jesus-for-sausage-roll-1.3294080Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar. What cowards these people are: we all know that they would never dare insult other religions! They should donate every penny of their profits to @salvationarmyuk https://t.co/tAV7CRP7WM
— Simon Richards (@simplysimontfa) November 15, 2017
Out of interest do you think the people at Greggs understand that Jesus was Jewish and serving up a pork sausage roll in the manger is unbelievably inappropriate?
— Beth Rosenberg (@bethvaughan15) November 13, 2017
Simon Richards, chief executive of the Freedom Association called for the public to boycott the bakery and claimed the advent calendar was "sick" and "anti-Christian".
He tweeted "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian advent calendar. What cowards these people are: we all know that they would never dare insult other religions! They should donate every penny of their profits to @salvationarmyuk"
Rev Mark Edwards, a vicar in Brunswick, UK, also called for boycott of the chain. He told chroniclelive.co.uk: "Perhaps we should vote with our feet - perhaps we should say, don’t go to Greggs."
Some 'freedom association" that is! Freedom for everyone to do and say things that Simon thinks are OK. :rolleyes:
As for people voting with their feet, I think if the vicar is honest with himself he'll realise where the voting with (lack of) feet is really going on.The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.
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Pork is inappropriate though.
A tiny cheeseburger would have been OK. The baby cheesus.
Some genuis on Twitter pointed out that "Lord Jesus" spelled backwards is "Susejd Rol" (pronounce it), and since Hebrew is read right-to-left, Greggs were just praising in their own special way)
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And finally, here's Bob Katter - an independent Australian politician who does not like same-sex marriage.
Here he is last week, doing a Bilbo-meeting-Frodo-at-Rivendell thing, where he explains that the government should spend less time looking into the issue of equality for its citizens, and more time looking into attacks on the peace-loving citizens of Queensland by crocodile.
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And finally, here's Bob Katter - an independent Australian politician who does not like same-sex marriage.
Here he is last week, doing a Bilbo-meeting-Frodo-at-Rivendell thing, where he explains that the government should spend less time looking into the issue of equality for its citizens, and more time looking into attacks on the peace-loving citizens of Queensland by crocodile.
Bob Katter is "a character" alright. I used to really dislike him as I took what he said seriously. He is quite often playing to his audience and taking the piss. Many years ago he said that there were no homosexuals in his electorate.
You can see in that clip he was half laughing when he made that statement. The real issue is, of course, crocodile attacks on same sex honeymoon couples.0 -
Cant argue with the maths....
A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer
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Not sure if I approve or disapprove but epic trolling either way
A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer
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Blackfriars Priory School in Adelaide, South Australia commissioned a sculptor to sculpt a statue of St. Martin de Porres holding a loaf of bread.
Unfortunately, the school quickly ran into problems after the unveiling of the erection:
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/blackfriars-priory-schools-new-statue-has-unsavoury-taste-causing-a-flurry-of-comments-on-social-media/news-story/9eafc78d4dd62508df49e8efe0e407f2
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Hector Savage wrote: »people are afraid.
Rubbish. Very difficult to please everyone, but Jesus and Mo usually manage to cover most bases
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It goes back to Dara O'Briain's explanation about why he takes the piss out of Christianity, but not about Islam - because few of us know enough about the nitty-gritty of Islam to be amused by satire.
Case in point:
I remember seeing this as a teenager and thinking it was just one of those crazy abstract Larson cartoons that I didn't get. It was more than a decade before I actually understood it, and even then just found it mildly amusing; because the basis for the cartoon is not something I had a constant exposure to.0 -
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It goes back to Dara O'Briain's explanation about why he takes the piss out of Christianity, but not about Islam - because few of us know enough about the nitty-gritty of Islam to be amused by satire.
Case in point:
I remember seeing this as a teenager and thinking it was just one of those crazy abstract Larson cartoons that I didn't get. It was more than a decade before I actually understood it, and even then just found it mildly amusing; because the basis for the cartoon is not something I had a constant exposure to.
Dara O Bhrian is afraid to mock Islam as he would most likely be murdered.
He speaks of plenty of things in his show that aren't uniquely Irish like the classic Irish catholic upbringing so it's a lame excuse.
Anyway, just to somehow get back on topic
This is probably my favourite parody twitter account right now:
https://twitter.com/ThatBloke_Jesus/status/9246323422196408320
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MOEMzZR_mk
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