Reuters: Sony Pulls "Jesus" Ad for Playstation Console

[DFWdem]

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

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.ph...

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.

[Fenris]

1. Reminds me of this Landover Baptist fake ad and article

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0104/ps2.html

[AlCzervik]

2. "Get your ass to church!" that and Sister Betty are my favorites.

[NNadir]

3. That's bad.

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

[klook]

4. Playstation is bigger than Jesus (n/t)

[sniffa]

5. but are they bigger than the beatLes?

and if so, are they bigger than oasis?

[VegasWolf]

10. More popular anyway! nt

[Charlie Brown]

6. With all the hype that these groups lavished on Gibson's movie

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.

[DBoon]

7. for trademark infringement?

on "brand jesus"?

[despairing optimist]

8. You mean, corporations aren't religious and don't uphold family values

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

[Solly Mack]

9. ah...the last temptation of sony

[FlashHarry]

11. that's alright... fundies hate Jesus anyway.

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.

[Zhade]

12. "Sony is oppressing us!"

Yawn.

[Old Mouse]

13. I worked with Sony Computer Entertainment America marketing

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