| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 7:53:06 AM | I think its inappropriate as well,and I understand where the OP is coming from.
If I had used a certain product for years and suddenly found something like this placed inside Id be a bit put off by it.Enough to stop buying the product?Id probably buy it once more and if the same things are in there that would be it for me.
Whats next political flyers in our cheese,no thanks. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 9:43:27 AM | NDLT, I'm surprised that you wouldn't want to write to the company to express your dismay at its choice of inserts. I mean, feedback is how a company grows and improves. While I find it hard to believe that someone in the company thought its clientele would appreciate a religious pamphlet inside their bickies, if the public doesn't comment on its insertion, the business may continue on doing it. (or the supplier or however it comes packaged).
See, I like the movie coupons on the cereal. I read the fine print, notice the dates and the limitations. I'm a coupon user for many things. (but does a coupon dictate what product I buy? NO.)
Anyway, just more thoughts on this unusual situation. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 11:21:01 AM | I'm not saying I'm a soldier of Christ but does it ever make you wonder that alot of gifted people in this world are!!! They are, I'm not here to fight with you people but it seems to me that alot of people in Canada are selfish and dont respect a man that stood for the human race, I really dont see the big deal of advertising something that is good!! insted of advertising porn,drugs,booze,ect. I might go out and buy the crackers just for the knowlage, if not religious than be thankful you dont live with our brothers and sisters in the U.S.!!!
I thank God everyday I was born in Canada instead of a hostile country.
P.S. How would people be educated if they only talked about it in church? Schmetz. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 11:31:43 AM |
P.S. How would people be educated if they only talked about it in church?
You just answered your own question,they would learn about it in church,where it is SUPPOSED to be taught.
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 11:59:28 AM | | While I am proud to be Canadian, proud to be able to make my own choices, I don't go shoving my religion and beliefs down other peoples throats. People are entitled to believe in what they want without having it show up at the door or in your crackers. That's just nuts. | |
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Lady83
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Joined: 3/14/2007
Msg: 31 | |
| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 12:35:51 PM | | i dont understand the big deal. Anyone with God in their lives should be able to understand that we are all under one God, and who cares wether or not they are "shoving" religion down your throat. I think the person had good intention about getting the message out about the fact that there is a God, and there is more to life then what meets the eye. They went around it in the wrong way, but isnt any form of trying to get the message out about God, a positive thing? There is nothing bad about this if you have the ability to understand they were just trying to spread positivity. Putting a gun to your head, and telling you , you MUST believe this, thats pretty negitive. All they did was slip a pamphet in your crackers, and they did it with good and never malice intention. There is nothing crazy about a person who loves God so much they would like to spread the word about him. On the other hand, if they brainwash you and trick you into believing you need to kill yourself for God and stuff (like cults..) ok thats serious business. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 12:50:55 PM |
i dont understand the big deal. Anyone with God in their lives should be able to understand that we are all under one God, and who cares wether or not they are "shoving" religion down your throat. I think the person had good intention about getting the message out about the fact that there is a God
See now thats your personal belief,I for one don't believe in god and all that so I dont need people trying to sway me by slipping things in my food,there is a time and place for everything but I dont think food is a place to convert,or try too.
Let me ask you this,if you buy some cookies that you've bought for years and suddenly you find a pamphlet from the church of satan,how would you feel?
Would you feel its fine?, just people trying to spread the word of their god or would you be offended and taken aback somewhat?Thats what I thought.
To me this is the same thing,same idea. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 12:57:12 PM | if they brainwash you and trick you into believing you need to kill yourself for God and stuff (like cults..) ok thats serious business
^^^^^^There is no such thing as a cult other than that some belief systems do not have enough members. it is all in the numbers. Christianity is a cult from many perspectives...so is any religion. Even our society is a cult. Just something to consider. Butthat is probably a topic for another thread.
If I used a product and they created an allegiance with a group I was opposed to...I would no longe support them. Simple. Unless of course it was in relation to Playstation. Sony could probably put nazi literature in the games and I would be scanning it only to see if they did so because a new WWII first person shooter was coming out.  | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 2:36:55 PM | | have you contacted the manufacturer of the crackers and lodged a complaint ?to me it seems like they are forcing you to comply with this religion and adhere to their teachings.i believe in freedom of religion and freedom of speech but this takes it a little too far for me!i would boycott the product and buy another brand nutil they stop this propraganda! | |
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Lady83
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Joined: 3/14/2007
Msg: 37 | |
| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 3:05:42 PM | i guess thats a different way to look at it
i just always considered it organized religion. I always considered the difference in cults and organized religion not to be in numbers, but in the dangers that come with cults.
Anyway im not a christian nor am i apart of any other organized religion so what do i care. As for anyone who doesnt believe in God, sorry for offending, but as i said, people that spread the word dont usually do it out of malice intention, its usually there (stupid) way of trying to spread love. You cant hate someone for trying to spread love...well...i guess you could... | |
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Lady83
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Joined: 3/14/2007
Msg: 38 | |
| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 3:11:06 PM | btw
lol
if i got a pamphet that was pushing satanism in a box of crackers i would first probably start laughin til i cried, and then i wouldnt think much of it.because i try not to waste my time on anything that was made to make me feel negitive. Negitive energy has the ability to spread faster and further in this place,then positive engery can. so why would i ever feed into it? i would try not to .
i guess my faith is too unshakible for me to ever get pissed off at someone for trying. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 3:12:22 PM |
Let me ask you this,if you buy some cookies that you've bought for years and suddenly you find a pamphlet from the church of satan,how would you feel?
I wouldnt feel anything. If someone wants to spread their beliefs in a product they create, thats their business. Why is it a personal assault on the buyer? I fail to see how religion is being forced on anyone or shoved down one's throat. You,the consumer is making a free choice to purchase the product or not.
As for your example, I would simply stop buying the cookies. Why is this hard for so many to comprehend? Would I fel insulted, offended, victimized or infringed upon? Not at all. I have choices I am free to make and I would exercise them how I saw fit. Just like the manufacturer of the crackers/cookies/whatever has the freedom to exercise their rights by putting whatever message they deem appropriate on/in their product without violatng any laws.
You as a consumer may not like the religious message but guess what, maybe you arent the target marketfor the product. If I as a consumer dont like marketing, advertising what have you,choices that a company makes, I dont have to buy their product. If I dont like how Nike uses sweat shops to make their shoes, I dont buy Nike shoes. If I dont like that Coke has Britney Spears as a spokesperson, I dont buy their product. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 3:13:27 PM |
Reactions like yours are usually perpetuated as a defensive behaviour.
i find that comment to be flat out rude and degrading, MI.
i think it's inappropriate to put religious tracts in consumer products myself. how does that make anyone "defensive"?
if this is the first time this has happened and you have been buying these products for years, i would contact the company, because they may have a "rogue employee" putting these things in random boxes before sending them out.
or the manufacturer got bought out by Moonies, or something...
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 3:31:16 PM | I would like to reiterate..
These are not "communion wafers" they are Whole Whest Stone Ground crackers. The kind you buy for parties.
I would also like to note that the sae flyer (which did have advertisments for the product and other of the manufacturers products on it) ALSO had a rant about the Canadian treatment of the Japanese during WW2, as well as a message of support on the War in Iraq, which was also somethat insulting. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 6:00:37 PM |
Anyone with God in their lives should be able to understand that we are all under one God, and who cares wether or not they are "shoving" religion down your throat. I think the person had good intention about getting the message out about the fact that there is a God, and there is more to life then what meets the eye
As a pagan that celebrates the glory of the Goddess, I think that this statement is very exclusive in nature. What you are saying is that those that have the Goddess in their life or other God besides the one depicted by Monothesim is that they are made to feel other then "normal". This is why it is so good to be Canadian, as a country we don't allow politics and religion to share the same bed, unlike our southern neighbours who use the bible still to pass laws. I find it unethical to bring religion of anysort in the form of a coupon as well as any political adgenda. I think this was done in poor taste.
I will not presume to tell you what you should do about the crackers, but this does bring up an interesting debate, is it ok to sell religion and are we not doing that already.? | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/21/2007 8:35:52 PM | So, what your saying is that your not that religious and I really dont care, but dont knock people for saying what they want, remember this is Canada! Really I dont here people talking about church anyways but if I did......I would listen!
remember I'm not that religious but I do listen when sombody has somthing good to say! | |
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Lady83
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Joined: 3/14/2007
Msg: 44 | |
| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/22/2007 1:27:17 PM | | Golden apples could you please re-phrase your sentence. I dont want to jump the gun and say anything if I dont completely understand what you are saying. Im a Gnostic Christian by the way. Its a far cry from the normalized Christianity that you usually see. | |
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Joined: 10/17/2005
Msg: 45 | |
| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/22/2007 1:44:45 PM | I have a concern about this, and it probably won't be what people think.
*Anytime* a company includes something with your purchase, or inside the packaging, the cost of that little flyer, coupon, voucher, religious tract (if so) is being absorbed into the price of the product. I'd rather see them stop that all together, and knock the price down a few pennies.
I don't see this so much as a discourse on religion as annoying practices by companies to support/promote their products.
I don't shop at Walmart though, due to company policy/beliefs/practices. | |
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| Shoving religion down my throat!! - Literally
Posted: 3/22/2007 6:06:10 PM |
Golden apples could you please re-phrase your sentence. I dont want to jump the gun and say anything if I dont completely understand what you are saying. Im a Gnostic Christian by the way. Its a far cry from the normalized Christianity that you usually see.
I'm not sure which sentence you'd like clarification or rewording on. I wrote a few. | |
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