Virgin angels' wings clipped

[bwana]

What a sad state of affairs.

Johannesburg - Virgin Mobile's controversial ad about heaven will after all be axed after a group of Christians threatened to boycott the company.
The television advertisement, showing a man dying and then returning from heaven to earth because he was still tied to his cellphone contract, upset some Christians deeply because they interpreted it as blasphemous.

However, the Advertising Standards Authority dismissed the objections to the ad.

The result was that some furious believers starting speaking about boycotting Virgin Mobile.

Dominee Hennie van Wyk of the Reformed Church in Pinetown wrote to Virgin Mobile that he had no other choice but to campaign against the company. In his personal capacity, he would ask every member of his congregation not to support Virgin Mobile.

Virgin Mobile spokesperson Nicholas Maweni said on Wednesday the company was concerned about any group of people that considered such steps and that the company had not intended to cause offence.

Maweni said the ad would be taken off the air, but could not say when. It could take weeks.

The marketing department was already working on other advertising material, Maweni added.

They should not have caved.

 

[MaD]

A bit petty indeed.

 

[spiderz]

can't wait to see what virgin's marketing team comes up with in responce to this!

 

[Moederloos]

for the second time today, I feel compelled to say "Religion should be banned"

 

[playkiller no.2]

Oops posted the same news.

It's not the christian heaven you bunch of idiots.
It's the man's own personal heaven.

 

[spiderz]

Oops posted the same news.

It's not the christian heaven you bunch of idiots.
It's the man's own personal heaven.

hmmm, are'nt theire only one Heaven? (like in there is only one GOD?)

 

[spiderz]

ooohhh, it's the new VIRGIN HEAVEN !!!
You have to fly there on one of their soon-to-be-launched space planes...

 

[Moederloos]

hmmm, are'nt theire only one Heaven? (like in there is only one GOD?)

heathen.

There are multiple religions, multiple heavens and multiple Gods. This should be obvious, otherwise everyone in the middle east would be killing each other over the same God. Oh, wait..... my bad.

 

[Captain Beer]

Pathetic. Can't stand these ultra christian people, makes my blood boil!

Never met Hennie van Wyk, but I can tell you he is a FOOL!

 

[killadoob]

ya i agree what a bunch of idiots

its an ad and it was rather clever i though

stupid christians

well the middle east's god believes killing innocent ppl is the way to heaven

brain washing of note going on there


hmmm maybe i should go kill a few innocent ppl then i can go to muslim heaven



everything said in this post is tongue in the cheek and note to be taken seriously

 

[spiderz]

or is VIRGIN starting a new Religion?

 

[spiderz]

killadoob - is the muslim haven better then the christian one?
That VIRGIN one sure looked nice

 

[dominic]

//now, if a devout muslim dies as a martyr in battle do they get a virgin contract in heaven?

 

[spiderz]

//now, if a devout muslim dies as a martyr in battle do they get a virgin contract in heaven?

With free minutes & Unlimited broadband

 

[Moederloos]

the next Virgin cell ad needs to take place in the Circus Maximus.....

 

[|tera|]

I say whatever. I'm a Christian myself and the ad doesn't offend me at all. Who cares about a fake heaven? Everyone needs to chill out, this one Pastor or Dominee is making Christianity in South Africa seem like a last resort. Really, who would want to be a Christian if life had to be so boring? I say keep the ad, it's fun, it's fresh and it was done extremely well.

 

[Phaff]

...I hear in Virgin Heaven you get free warm showers
Pity the ad got such bad publicity, I thought it was rather cool.. maybe they can make on in hell, they can have Telkom signs all over the place and the Telkom CEO on the throne... the dude (who goes to hell) can grab his VM phone and call the help line ARMAGEDDONOUDAHERE

 

[spiderz]

/me agrees with teraside...

Really, these people are so un-secure about their religion?

 

[playkiller no.2]

Set it in Rome,have the black angel dude as the emperor.
He will give the white dude the thumbs down because he is still tied to his contract.
Then the lions eat him.

 

[Moederloos]

/anally retentive types stop reading here.

The problem with organised religion, is that every time someone pokes fun at a religion, or bases a joke on that religion, someone is sure to jump up and down and cry, or strap some explosive to themselves and blow up other people.

Religion is a fairy tale for adults - the sooner we all realise that, the better the world will be.

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