Ad playing Doritos for Eucharist yanked from Super Bowl contest

[Thoughtfulone]

To say Catholics do nothing to fight against ethical causes and don’t put any energy into affecting any sort of change is totally off base. I could fill pages with people and organizations of our faith as with other Christian faiths that have done just that. As far as your assumption that there has been no child abuse since some absurd Facebook request to change avatars to cartoon characters is typical of someone who just sits at home expecting results from some feeble Facebook effort, and believes it makes real change. Where are your facts for saying that no child has been abused since this? Get out in the communities and talk to the Catholics and all people who work on a daily basis with the abused; women, children and elderly and tell them that you silly notion worked! Perhaps it brings awareness but it didn’t stop it!

I never said that Catholics do nothing to fight injustice. Catholic hospitals do more for AIDS than any other group. I WAS saying that it is a silly waste of time getting one’s panties all tied up over a Doritos commercial that isn’t even aimed at Catholics in the first place. It’s just a way for people to feel morally superior with little or no effort. Also, I was joking about the child abuse statistics. It was sarcasm. But seriously, no child anywhere has been abused since that powerful and effective Facebook campaign.

 

[Tigg]

I find it very distressing that believers can’t recognize that frivolity aimed at the Christian faith mocks and minimizes that which we hold in highest esteem in the deepest recesses of our hearts.

 

[greenpatrick125]

Yesssss!!!

 

[Epistemes]

For those of you who signed any petition, for those of you who are celebrating that this commercial was “yanked,” and for those of you prematurely want to thank Pepsi for removing the ad, think again.

The commercial was made and it is being broadcast all throughout the world, perhaps not on our television sets but definitely on our computers. We seem to forget that we live in an age of viral media now and that not all things have to been advertised in between episodes of NCIS to achieve their intended goal. This ad was no more pulled than the misplaced iPhone prototype which some guy found at a bar wasn’t ingenius advertising.