CATHOLICS are crowing today over a victory they scored against a “blasphemous” Hyundia World Cup Football TV commercial called “Wedding”, which has now been pulled by the company.
According to a synopis of the ad- helpfully provided by Angelqueen (Motto: “For Purity and Tradition in Catholicism”):
Procession enters singing the Agnus Dei. All types of stupidity and sacrilege follow.
Angelqueen adds:
Not sure if the ad was done out of hate, sheer ignorance or a combination of both. Funny thing is that Hyundai must be proud of their work, because they feature it on their website. I imagine it won’t last long, as the story is just starting to pick up steam.
Angelqueen was right. The ad has disappeared. It has also vanished from YouTube, where it made a brief appearance.
The 30-second commercial aired in America during the USA v UK World Cup game.
The Hyundai ad, it was claimed, mocked the Eucharist by showing worshippers receiving slices pizza instead of the traditional communion crackers. At one point a football was shown sporting a Crown of Thorns.
Fr Marcel Taillon, a priest in Rhode Island, said:
This ad is an outrageous affront to Catholics and a mockery of our most sacred beliefs and practices.
On this thread, Father Bartoloma wrote:
What a contrast it is when a company like Hyundai graciously and sensibly removes that ad, as opposed to the Empire State Building stubbornly still refuses to light up the building the colors for Mother Theresa (sic)!
In a groveling apology to the blood-swigging, kiddy-fiddling biscuit munchers, Hyundai Motor America said:
The unexpected response created by the ad, which combined both soccer and religious motifs to speak to the passion of international soccer fans, prompted us to take a more critical and informed look at the spot. Though unintentional, we now see it was insensitive. We appreciate your feedback and hope you will accept our sincere apologies.
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June 18th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Sensitive Getz if you ask me!
June 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Will Fr Marcel Taillon take back all those insensitive things about women that he and his company have been advertising for centuries?
Will the catholic church EVER appologise for its insensitivity to atheists and children?
June 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Man up Taillon! Are your sacred rites and traditions so fragile they can’t withstand a car commercial? What a wimpy lot you are.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
It is a shame they pulled the ad before I got to see it as I would have given them a thumbs up on it. Who really gives a damn what the idiots in pedophile central cares, especially the senile old nazi in rome in the pointed hat and funny shoes, who is nothing more than racist, homophobic, misogynist old goat, who with every word tends to drag humanity farther down into the muck and mire of religion.
June 18th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
i haven’t seen the ad, but i wish i had! Anything that pisses off the catlicks is ok by me………
June 18th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
just come across this, it seems that everything upsets the religious these days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi.....advert-asa
June 18th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
“a mockery of our most sacred beliefs and practices”
Yes, it’s called satire. What next – censorship of the media in case they mock the sincerely held beliefs and practices of political parties?
June 18th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
@Diamond It is also called freedom of speech. Now that is something of which the religious mafia approve providing it says what they want to hear. Trouble is, they all want to hear different things. Dear old Auntie BBC has a relatively simple solution to this – at least as far as the dire Thought for the Day is concerned – as you are allowed the freedom of the air as long as you are “a person of faith.” And the word “faith” is broad and covers every imaginable religious nutter but excludes atheists. I can see why. As long as they keep excreting their religious pap every day then there is no indication that there might be something more sensible and intelligent available.
Does a supposed omnipotent and omniscient god need to be defended by these religious types? It just doesn’t make sense. Apart from to them, of course.
June 18th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
It’s fine to mock beliefs, but one really should draw the line at deeply held beliefs. ‘Cause they are special.
Mock ye not, naughty mockers.
June 18th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
“Procession enters singing the Agnus Dei. All types of stupidity and sacrilege follow.”
Isn’t that what normally happens during a Catholic Mass?
“A mockery of our most sacred beliefs and practices.”
Just because your beliefs are ‘sacred’ that doesn’t make them true and your practices being sacred doesn’t make them any less absurd or any less deserving of being mocked.
To be honest, I think that the Catholics are just jumping on the Muslim taking offence at absolutely everything bandwagon. Lets face it, it has worked pretty well for the Muzzies, the mainstream media now go out of their way to avoid offending their delicate sensibilities. On the odd ocasion when they slip up or actually show some balls, they have a grovelling apology out within a nanosecond of the inevitable complaint being made.
The good part is that Hyundai have played them for the predictable fools that they are and gained a hundred times more publicity for their product.
June 18th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
@Don
I agree (I think).
I’ve had this argument about “deeply held” beliefs before. I think far too many people have this assumption that because a belief is “deeply held” that somehow gives it more gravitas and importance. This is total bollocks. If a belief is “deeply held” what does that tell us about that particular belief? It tells us that the belief is “deeply held”. That’s it. It says absolutely nothing about that belief. There are many beliefs out there that certain people “hold deeply”, some of them are very offensive, many of them are religious, many are both religious and very offensive. Should we have to respect these offensive beliefs just because those that hold them do so “deeply”?
June 18th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Don & Graham Martin-Royle, I think that you have it pretty much summed up. If you understand the difference between ‘belief’ and knowledge then you understand that your beliefs do not gain any value at all just because they are ‘deeply held’. My beliefs are held provisionally, and as such are open to being revised or modified if I discover new information that requires it. The result of this is that rather than being offended or outraged when my provisionally held beliefs are challenged, I assess the challenge and either stick to or modify my beliefs.
Surely the only reason that I would get upset would be if I was desperately clinging to a belief that I knew that I could not defend. I am afraid that I have difficulty in understanding why anyone would want to do that rather than change their mind and admit that they were wrong. Non of us are infallable, we all get things wrong and it is nothing to be ashamed of, it is just part of being human.
June 18th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Doesn’t ‘deeply held’ mean you’re much better at deceiving yourself than those who just have beliefs? You can’t expect others to respect your stupidity. It’s my deeply held belief that those who waste their and sometimes others’ time on ‘god’ are keeping all of us away from a sane planet, but does anybody care about me? Like Jim Jeffries said: ‘You’re living in a fantasy land and after you die nothing happens, stop being a fucking child.”
June 19th, 2010 at 7:27 am
I grew up in a Catholic family and I don’t remember us ever being as touchy and defensive as modern Catholics appear to be. This permanent state of outrage, that they seem to have caught off their Muslim equivalents, is perhaps an indication of their basic insecurity. They see their beliefs challenged everywhere on the internet and know that they’re indefensible. They’ve seen their kiddy fiddling priests exposed in their thousands and their corrupt bishops collude in a massive worldwide cover up. What they really deeply believe is that their church is rotten to the core – they just can’t bring themselves to admit it, so they lash out at even the most inoffensive satire or criticism.
June 20th, 2010 at 1:51 am
Spot on, Peter – and it’s only going to get worse. The more the bead-twirlers’ global criminal enterprise shrinks, the more shrill and fanatical the remaining rump of the church will become. Our best strategy is to turn the mockery up even more.
June 20th, 2010 at 10:34 am
The RCC have missed a trick here.
If they offered pizza instead of a bland wafer at its wierd ceremonies they could increase their attendances. Every church could be sponsored by Pizza Hut and Coca Cola, neon signs included.
June 20th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
If this happened in the US, shouldn’t ‘proper’ Yanks be accusing the biscuit-munchers of blasphemy?
I thought freedom of speech was supposed to be sacrosant to Americans -First Amendment and all that. If Catholics don’t have respect for the principles the country was founded on maybe they should just sod off to Iran, where their idiocies would be taken very seriously by other spook-chasing throwbacks who know no better