Article: Red Bull ad offensive

The Red Bull energy drink's "Jesus walks on water" campaign should be cancelled, the SA Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) said on Tuesday.

"We question the timing of the release of the advert -- which seems to be part of an international campaign," spokesman Cardinal Wilfred Napier said in a statement.
 
Madman88 said:
What a petty and childish statement. I expected more from you.


Besides, did red bull expect anything different? I think they where hoping for a reaction like this.
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Let me be honest and say I don't appreciate religion and it's institutions. So I will stick with my statement, if you don't like it then that's your problem ;)

If your god is so great them let him strike them down and condemn them to hell as he says in the scriptures. Why are you fighting a gods battle when he is omnipotent!?
 
rpm said:
The Red Bull energy drink's "Jesus walks on water" campaign should be cancelled, the SA Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) said on Tuesday.

"We question the timing of the release of the advert -- which seems to be part of an international campaign," spokesman Cardinal Wilfred Napier said in a statement.
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Myths are in the public domain and hence free game.
 
The Red Bull energy drink's "Jesus walks on water" campaign should be cancelled, the SA Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) said on Tuesday.
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I think the SA Catholic Bishops' Conference should be cancelled. :rolleyes:

Wait, no. I'm not a free-speech hating moron.
 
ponder said:
Let me be honest and say I don't appreciate religion and it's institutions. So I will stick with my statement, if you don't like it then that's your problem ;)

If your god is so great them let him strike them down and condemn them to hell as he says in the scriptures. Why are you fighting a gods battle when he is omnipotent!?
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I'm not fighting anybody's battle, I just thought that your comment was a little more immature than I would have expected from you. I like this comment more:

HapticSimian said:
Let Jesus complain if he feels offended.
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There are a few ways of looking at this....

1) The character in the ads is fictitious and not an accurate portrayal of the person that Christians and Moslems revere.
2) The adverts are a form of parody and therefore not intended to be taken seriously.
3) The One True Christian God[SUP]TM[/SUP] is quite capable of fighting His own battles and is most likely not in any way insulted or disheartened by such a petty "insult" (go read Psalm 2 if you need more confirmation).
4) The Red Bull Company employs an advertising company to generate buzz around their product. Any attention is their goal. By complaining about this and drawing attention to it, you are actually doing their work for them. If you don't like it, the best way to combat it would be to ignore it and let it die on it's own.
5) Those who are "offended" by it need to ask themselves... what will it really matter five minutes after death.
6) etc...
 
they will cancel it. If they want to express free speech they can always base their next ad on islam or they can use the next ad to poke fun at atheism.
 
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ponder said:
Let me be honest and say I don't appreciate religion and it's institutions. So I will stick with my statement, if you don't like it then that's your problem ;)

If your god is so great them let him strike them down and condemn them to hell as he says in the scriptures. Why are you fighting a gods battle when he is omnipotent!?
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We'll just stop buying the product, that action alone will force them to withdraw the ad.
 
While I don't find the advert very funny for reasons not related to religion, I think that this outcry is rather silly.
 
Christians clip Red Bull's wings

Christian television viewers are up in arms over energy drink Red Bull's advertisement that shows a "bored" Jesus walking on water, saying, "It's not a miracle, you just need to know where the stepping stones are."


Red Bull: Jesus walks on water commercial

The advert, flighted on Monday night during e.tv's 7pm news and during the popular Grey's Anatomy drama series on M-Net, has prompted more than 100 complaints in less than a day.

While no official response from Red Bull was received, a staff member said yesterday the offending advert had been pulled from the air.

The animated advert sees Jesus sitting on a boat with two disciples, then sting up, stepping off the boat and proceeding to walk on water, saying he is "bored".

One of the disciples asks how he is able to walk on water, the other says: "I think he had a Red Bull. You know it gives him wiiiings."

Jesus, jumping around, says: "It's not a miracle. You just have to know where the stepping stones are."

He then slips on a stone, which is below the surface, and exclaims: "Oh, Jesus!"

Advertising Standards Authority spokesman Thelma Johnson said most of the complaints had been made by e.tv viewers, and that calls were still coming in yesterday afternoon.

Some Twitter users tackled "pedantic" Christians over the advert.

Twitter user @JayKeays said: "The people who get offended by the new Red Bull ad are the same people who'd call the cops on your house party."

@Kanyisa021 tweeted: "Lol it's only a matter of time b4 the red bull ad is pulled off air, staunch Christians are very intolerant nd hev no sense of humor [sic]".

This is not the first time an advert has left people of a particular belief system angered.

At the beginning of the year the advertising authority supported Eugene Gerber's disapproval of a billboard erected outside the Rivers Church in Sandton, north of Johannesburg.

The billboard showed a picture of a man holding both sides of his head in thought above the line: "An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident" - a quote by British poet Francis Thompson.

The advertising authority upheld the complaint and ordered that the billboard be taken down, saying the "depiction of a man with an empty head communicates that atheists are stupid".

Late last year, deodorant manufacturers Unilever SA had to remove its Axe Excite advert because it was deemed "likely to offend Christians".

In the 30-second advert, angels in the form of gorgeous women wearing mini dresses and beaming halos descend on what looks like a small Mediterranean town, bringing it to a standstill and surprising the townsfolk.

Viewer Dawie Theron wrote to the advertising authority body saying that, according to the Bible, angels were God's messengers and that he did not agree with the suggestion that they could fall for a man wearing the deodorant.
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Sauce

Eish!
 
Apache said:
We'll just stop buying the product, that action alone will force them to withdraw the ad.
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I'm sure there's tons of religious people getting maxed every night in the clubs on Redbull and coke.

In any case, don't the Catholic Church call what they give people to drink in church 'the blood of christ'? Red Bull sounds better to me...
 
Christians clip Red Bull's wings

It honestly offends me that we are unable to have a sense of humour anymore - is there somewhere I can complain about it... *sarcasm*
 
Apache said:
they can use the next ad to poke fun at atheism.
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How would they go about that? haha, I can't imagine anything offensive being said about being realistic and not blinded by other peoples fear mongering. In the end that is all religion is about, scaring people into following their rules.
 
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