Pepsi Proselytization

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I do the grocery shopping. I picked up a 24 pack of Pepsi. My wife found a “Ticket to Heaven” tract inside the carton. :rolleyes:

The tract had a link to a site associated with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. The content of the tract was the typical mishmash of Scripture quotes and a link to a web site. What could they hope to accomplish by this?

A quick scan of the sites associated with these two indicates an anti-Catholic agenda. :mad:

I have no idea if the tract was placed by someone a the bottler, a Kroger employee, or a customer. 🤷
 
i doubt pepsi, the bottling plant or store had anything to do with it. probably some misguided individual that thought they were going to have a positive impact on the person finding it.

all the more reason we need to continue to educate ourselves and others as to what the Catholic Church really teaches.
 
1holycatholic said:
I do the grocery shopping. I picked up a 24 pack of Pepsi. My wife found a “Ticket to Heaven” tract inside the carton. :rolleyes:
The tract had a link to a site associated with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. The content of the tract was the typical mishmash of Scripture quotes and a link to a web site. What could they hope to accomplish by this?
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Probably to cause some agnostic or atheistic customer to go to heaven.
A quick scan of the sites associated with these two indicates an anti-Catholic agenda. :mad:
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They have a TV show. It teaches people how to talk to atheists. One episode was on talking to satanists. I saw several and never noticed anything anti-Catholic. Either the website is sharply different from the show or their group is changing.🤷
I have no idea if the tract was placed by someone a the bottler, a Kroger employee, or a customer. 🤷
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It doesn’t matter. They won’t stop. Someone who sees it as a duty to place tracts will do so even if his/her job is at stake. If you were on your way to the last Mass one Sunday, running, barely going to make it on time, and someone from Comfort’s group stopped you and said, “Don’t go,” would you care what he said? You would shake him off and keep going, right? Churches that believe in tracts usually see it as an obligation. The only way to get them to stop is to convince them their entire church, which might include their friends, family and everyone they respect and love, has been misleading them about the most important things in their lives. It’s possible but a letter to the manager or anyting like that wouldn’t help.
 
strngrnrth said:
Probably to cause some agnostic or atheistic customer to go to heaven.
They have a TV show. It teaches people how to talk to atheists. One episode was on talking to satanists. I saw several and never noticed anything anti-Catholic. Either the website is sharply different from the show or their group is changing.🤷
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They don’t consider Catholics Christians etc…:rolleyes:

A quick Google search for the word “catholic” on one of their several web sites reveals a undercurrent of anti-Catholicism.😦

I’ve not heard of the TV show. I have seen a clip of Kirk Cameron speaking about evolution. I got the impression that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. :rolleyes:
 
wapsi said:
Catholics are not Christians.
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Unfortunately, that hits close to home. My youngest daughter (we have six children) left the Church and married a “Bible Christian” youth minister.

After nearly a decade, they are still trying to “save” me and the rest of our kids and grandkids. They don’t bother me much personally with it any more, because dispensing with their rhetoric is like shooting fish in a barrel.

They are convinced that we are “lost”, and feel “obligated” to do whatever it takes to save us.

I suspect that your “Pepsi” incident falls into that category. Neither Pepsi, nor Kroger would touch that with a ten-foot pole.
 
ethelzguy said:
Unfortunately, that hits close to home. My youngest daughter (we have six children) left the Church and married a “Bible Christian” youth minister.

After nearly a decade, they are still trying to “save” me and the rest of our kids and grandkids. They don’t bother me much personally with it any more, because dispensing with their rhetoric is like shooting fish in a barrel.

They are convinced that we are “lost”, and feel “obligated” to do whatever it takes to save us.

I suspect that your “Pepsi” incident falls into that category. Neither Pepsi, nor Kroger would touch that with a ten-foot pole.
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I sorry to hear about your daughter. I will pray for her.

I come at this from a different perspective. I am a convert to the Church from mainline Protestantism. I don’t recall hearing anything about the Catholic Church from the pulpit from a Protestant pastor. I asked my mom why we didn’t go to the Catholic Church. She told me something to the effect of “Because they have statues, and we don’t approve of that.” 🤷

In any case, I didn’t have any major anti-Catholic baggage. After converting to the Church I was stunned to find that several people I knew were viciously anti-Catholic. 😦 Several years before my conversion, I had a coworker who is a “Church of Christ” (Stone-Campbell) member passing out tracts on how Jesus never drank alcohol, and that the Bible (NT) forbade drinking it. She turned out to be one of the vicious anti-Catholics. :eek:
 
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I sorry to hear about your daughter. I will pray for her.
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Thanks 🙂

The real irony here, is that she was the only one of our six that I could afford to, and did, send to Catholic schools. :eek:

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor? 🤷
 
I’ve never had this problem with RC…

The lesson, then? Buy RC.

Assuming that this DIDN’T come from a random person but rather somebody from Kroger or Pepsi, should you complain about it, one of two things could happen:
  1. You will complain and be ignored or dismissed.
  2. You will complain and either Kroger or Pepsi can look into it and see if this is a pattern with one specific person or if it is the first of many occurances.
I’d like to think that 2 would be the case as it is more romantic in my mind, but, chances are very very probable it would be 1. This just doesn’t sound like it would be high on their list of priorities to get involved with…not unless somebody REALLY made a case out of it, which would not be in the best interests for anybody.
 
adstrinity said:
I’ve never had this problem with RC…

The lesson, then? Buy RC.

Assuming that this DIDN’T come from a random person but rather somebody from Kroger or Pepsi, should you complain about it, one of two things could happen:
  1. You will complain and be ignored or dismissed.
  2. You will complain and either Kroger or Pepsi can look into it and see if this is a pattern with one specific person or if it is the first of many occurances.
I’d like to think that 2 would be the case as it is more romantic in my mind, but, chances are very very probable it would be 1. This just doesn’t sound like it would be high on their list of priorities to get involved with…not unless somebody REALLY made a case out of it, which would not be in the best interests for anybody.
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I agree. But I would do a letter and send it to the local managers of both companies as well as send it to the Chairman of the Board of both companies by certified mail… requesting corrections such as the elimination of anti-Catholic propaganda being included with the products…further advising them all that you will refuse to buy their products or shop in their stores. Its not like theirs is the only soft drink or grocery store around, but at the same time make it clear that you have already posted this issue on the web, and that you will continue to do so. Its amazing what “economic boycotts” can do. Its high time that Catholics started “voting with their dollars”…
 
RobHom said:
I agree. But I would do a letter and send it to the local managers of both companies as well as send it to the Chairman of the Board of both companies by certified mail… requesting corrections such as the elimination of anti-Catholic propaganda being included with the products…further advising them all that you will refuse to buy their products or shop in their stores. Its not like theirs is the only soft drink or grocery store around, but at the same time make it clear that you have already posted this issue on the web, and that you will continue to do so. Its amazing what “economic boycotts” can do. Its high time that Catholics started “voting with their dollars”…
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Aside from the anti-Catholic literature, I’m not terribly happy that someone was tampering with my food.:mad: At least it wasn’t Aum Shinrikyo. :eek:
 
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