Posted on 04/12/2024 3:33:56 PM PDT by Morgana
Italian regulators have pulled a “blasphemous” television advert in which nuns are offered crisps instead of consecrated hosts during a Mass.
The advert for Amica Chips provoked a huge backlash within the Catholic nation, with claims that it “debased” and “vilified” Jesus Christ.
The Institute of Advertising Self-Discipline, Italy’s advertising standards authority, has now upheld complaints against the advert and ordered it off the airwaves.
In the 30-second advertisement, a group of young nuns are seen filing through a cloister into a chapel while another nun prepares for Mass but fills a ciborum with crisps instead of communion wafers.
A priest distributes a crisp instead of Host to a nun during Communion and the shocked nuns look to the nun in the sacristy who is shovelling crisps into her mouth from a bag.
The Italian Association of Radio and Television Listeners formally complained about the advert on the grounds that it “offends the sensibility of millions of practising Catholics”.
Giovanni Baggio, the president of the association, called for “the immediate suspension” of the advert because it was blasphemous and showed a “lack of respect”.
Avvenire, a newspaper owned by the Italian Bishops’ Conference, also called for the advert to be banned because Christ is “reduced to a crisp, debased and vilified as he was 2,000 years ago”.
Amica Chips was “spitting” on Christ “just as the Roman soldiers did to him before his crucifixion”, the newspaper said in an editorial.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the agency behind the commercial, Lorenzo Marini Group, said it had intended to strike “a strong British-style note of irony” with an advert that was “aimed at a young target audience”.
The head of the group, Lorenzo Marini, said the commercial was “irreverent” but said it was not intended to be offensive.
The regulator, however, informed the Italian Association of Radio and Television Listener that it had upheld its “appeal for the immediate suspension of the commercial” and reminded the advertiser that commercials “must not offend moral, civil, and religious convictions”.
Mr Baggio said his association wanted advertisers “to be more respectful of cultural and religious identities and to work for commercials that are inclusive and that appeal to all users in a way that is careful not to create discomfort and disapproval”.
He said: “Let us work together for a civilization that needs to grow in respect for cultural and religious identities.”
It’s called transubstantiation. If you’re going to throw stones then at least know what you’re talking about.
https://www.catholic.com/tract/christ-in-the-eucharist
And yes, there is a glaring example when Jesus breaks bread with the disciples on the road to Emmaus.
Also if you want to treat the Bible like a word search transubstantiation is next to the word incarnation and the Sinners prayer.
To the contrary, what I referred to in post 6 and in my link provides RC teaching, and eors of which are refuted by Scripture, by the grace of God, regardless of your recourse to fallacious ad hominem. THE LORD'S SUPPER Read and try again.
Not that you have not tried and failed before:
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and https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4162325/posts?page=95#95 and add
https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4119008/posts?page=51#51 https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4138561/posts?page=28#28 https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4138561/posts?page=31#31
You mean THIS??Luke 24:28-35 28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther.
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Sorry, but I have failed to see the GLARING example you find so easily.
transmogrification
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HMMMmmm...
Looks like I did a fairly good job of knowing what I was talking about.
I usually use it as a 'see if the claims made by others about stuff actually BEING in the bible are true' search object.
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