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LONDON - A trio of Christian groups have retaliated against The British Humanist Association's recent atheist bus campaign by booking their own pro-religious advertising on London buses.
Phones4U has been criticised by the ad watchdog for "mocking and belittling" Christianity in a national press campaign that featured a winking Jesus and the headline "miraculous deals".
LONDON - A number of Christian groups have responded to last month's bus sides by an atheist group declaring "There is probably no God" by launching their own counter campaigns.
LONDON - Hair styling company GHD has been ordered to pull TV ads that use Christian imagery combined with 'eroticised' images of women, after complaints from members of the public, as well as the archdeacon of Liverpool, that the campaign was offensive to Christians.
Of course, it was The da Vinci Code that started it all. Partly because of the global success of Dan Brown's novel, and partly for more serious reasons of divided faiths and communities in the UK, religion is currently big news.
LONDON - A press ad featuring a nativity scene with a king prawn in place of the baby Jesus has attracted 37 complaints to the advertising watchdog, but has been cleared of causing offence.
Perhaps it was inevitable, if a little late - 2000 years too late to be precise, but it appears that the nation s Evangelical Christians are badly in need of help from the public relations industry.
It always seemed that if there was one thing holding Christianity back, it was the sheer niceness of it all. The fatal absence of all that bitchiness and backstabbing that makes the world go round. Not a bit of it. Christianity has that too.
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