Reuters: Sony Pulls "Jesus" Ad for Playstation Console

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050930/tc_nm/italy_advert_jesus_dc

Sony (6758.T) has apologized for an advertising campaign for its PlayStation game console which featured a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan "Ten years of passion."

"This time they've gone too far," said Antonio Sciortino, editor of Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family), a mass-circulation Catholic weekly.

"If this had concerned Islam there would have been a really strong reaction," Sciortino was quoted as saying in the Corriere della Sera newspaper.



Can't argue with him there. To wit:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1818569

Boeing, Bell apologize for mosque attack ad

Boeing Co. apologized on Friday for a mistakenly published advertisement for its V-22 Osprey aircraft showing troops dropping onto the roof of a mosque in what appears to be a simulated battle scene.

Funny as hell - or at least purgatory - but bad.

and if so, are they bigger than oasis?

:toast:

It's not surprising that pop-culture would pick up the trend.

If the "Christian Family" people want their religion to remain dignified and venerated, maybe they should stop commercializing it.

on "brand jesus"?

unless they're economically expedient? I'm shocked, shocked.

Too liberal. They prefer the Old Testament, or at the very least, Paul's epistles. More brimstone. More fire. More wrath of God. None of this turn-the-other-cheek, sermon-on-the-mount bullshit.

Yawn.

if only they were a witty as any of the posters here!