Posted on 11/16/2017 12:29:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
GREGGS have apologised for causing offence online after replacing Jesus, the son of God, with a sausage roll in the Nativity scene.
The bakery chain chose to promote its new advent calendar by releasing the image that caused a small amount of controversy.
While many online saw the humour in it, others were very upset by the image.
Simon Richards called for a boycott of the bakery chain, tweeting: "Please boycott @GreggsOfficial to protest against its sick anti-Christian Advent Calendar. What cowards these people are: we all know that they would never dare insult other religions! They should donate every penny of their profits to @salvationarmyuk."
Greggs responded, stating: "We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention."
The advent calendar is out now in selected Greggs stores and costs £24.
A little sacrilegious, but I got a chuckle out of it. At least the sausage was swaddled in a bun.
Not very smart. I don’t know who they were hoping to attract by that.
We're really sorry we got caught...
The simple fact that they were not all consumed in a sulfurous explosion is proof that G_d has a really good sense of humor.
Scots society, or certainly their elites, politicians, media, and oligarchs, are very firm leftists and secularists. Even more so than here, you can laugh and attack Christians at will.
And yet they seem not to understand they live in a society, culture and nation that Christianity built. It is the hypocrisy and evil of leftists.
“I don’t know who they were hoping to attract by that.”
Leftard anti-Christian imbeciles? Just a hunch.
Ah, huh, let’s see Greggs pull a similar advertising stunt that uses a muslim holy image/icon to promote their goods. Maybe I’ll chuckle at the results of that stunt.
Heh. Same here.
My first thought - “Man, did they not think that would offend some people?” But I was already smiling.
I mean, a good sausage roll is “heavenly”.
/RimShot!
I’m going to burn.
Wanna do something really edgy show Muhammad riding a pig. That will get a chuckle.
Just because Muslims can't take joke, doesn't mean I can't. I go to church every weak & it still made me chuckle. I don't get outraged, or think I need to toe the social justice party line & feign outrage over everything.
I can take a joke.
They are mocking the Muslim Prophet Jesus.
Never their intention? Just what did they think the Christian community would say? Huh? Just more Christian bashing. I would like to see them try it about MoHAMmad.
Brain death is a sad thing to watch.
that was EXACTLY their intention.
They should have made the sausage roll the 4th Wise Man, not the Baby Jesus.
Even more so, he made all of us.
Yeap. They’re islamophobs.
“I got a chuckle out of it.”
What is funny about it? <—Actual question. I just don’t get it.
Humor is subjective, but I guess three wise men looking reverently at a sausage just struck me as funny.
I guess not everyone sees it the same way, so sue me.
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