Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Britain’s Tesco supermarket chain criticised for promoting beer at Easter
Most Brits are not religious
A UK supermarket chain has been accused of cashing in on Good Friday and being “extraordinarily ignorant” of the day’s true meaning.
Tesco, Britain’s largest grocer, was forced to apologise over a Good Friday beer advert after being attacked by Christians, reported The Sun.
The advert, which was printed in some newspapers in the run up to Easter, read: “Great offers on beer and cider. Good Friday just got better.”
Reverend Richard Coles, a presenter on BBC television, shared a picture of the advert and described it as an “RE [religious education] fail”.
In reply to another social media user, he said: “It gets the Good of Good Friday wrong — and it will cause offence to many of their customers.”
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Easter is a pagan Spring festival. The very name 'Easter' derives from a pagan fertility goddess - hence the eggs and bunnies as symbols of Spring. As with the corresponding pagan winter festival of Yule, the Christians tried to take over these festivals as their own, but now losing out to unabashed commercialism.
Most Brits are not religious
Surveys taken by the governments and others disagree with this statement.
Surveys are as usual misleading. Many people may say "Christian" meaning their background is Christian or that they are culturally Christian, rather than being serious/devout Christians; and some think it makes them sound a "good" person to say they are Christians, but in reality they are apathetic towards religion.
I think that all religion is ridiculous.
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