Why do you need an advert for anything?
To sell more, occasionally for public information purposes, although less so these days it seems.
To let people know as a nation prayer is important in such times.
That's a claim I'd love to see the ASA have a look over
Prayer is important to some people, perhaps, but that says something about them rather than about prayer.
What type of magic and how does it work? Does it work? Well are you sure you really thought and understood what you wrote?
I've no idea, I didn't realise there were different 'types' of magic, given that they're all imaginary. How does it work? It doesn't, from the evidence. Did I think that through - yes, that's just one of the reasons I don't do it.
Ignorance must be bliss for you.
Yours or mine? Yours makes this like shooting fish in a barrel, which isn't that much fun but it is important. My ignorance, in the areas where I am ignorant, are wonderful - they give me things to learn.
Just say for instance you don't go fishing or even drive then adverts for fishing tackle or Cars would not really be of interest to you. But you seem to think that you can be prejudicial towards people of faith and not those who fish or drive cars because the advert is not to your particular beliefs or activities.
No, I haven't decided that I don't want to show it, it's not my decision. The cinema advertising agency has decided that, on balance, getting involved in religious advertising would agitate or irritate more of its customers than would be happy. That might not be a comment, specifically, on this advert, but on the concept of religious advertising generally. That's their call, not mine. I can see their reasoning - the acrimony on here shows that it's a contentious issue when it is an inoffensive example, imagine the possibilities if some fringe group wanted to put their beliefs on the screen.
Grow up O.
What, you mean look at the bigger picture with an awareness of possible implications of a policy with an eye to the legal implications of the anti-discrimination legislation? Or do you mean cry because my club isn't special any more and make up stories about 'bans' and complain that someone else exercising their right to free speech is 'censorship' because they aren't saying what I want them to?
People who don't drive have to watch the car adverts at Cinemas. People who do not use mobile phones have had to watch the Orange adds for years.
The DCM's opinion is that car adverts and mobile phone adverts are unlikely to offend non-drivers and non-callers excessively, whilst religious advertising will irritate other religious viewpoints. They may be right or wrong, but that's their freedom of speech decision to make - they choose what topics they will carry and what topics they won't.
The relevance of Christianity is that it has been around a lot longer than the things advertised in Cinemas and it is the religion of this Country, You might not like it, but tough live with it...
I've had to live with it all my life. And, thankfully, it's having less and less of an impact, becoming less and less relevant. This advertising is, obviously, an attempt to rectify that from the church's point of view, and the cinema chains have decided they don't want to be a part of that. Church's already have their own tax-exempt locations to pray from, they already have priveleged access to schools, they already have reserved time on the national state broadcaster - they aren't short of forced outlets for their speech.
Cinemas are under no compulsion to represent them if they don't want to. They don't want to.
O.
