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Axe commercial banned for portrayal of angels

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Axe Deodorant Ad Banned for Offending Christians

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRnBHHcdHJQ"]Axe Excite : full version film (HD) - YouTube[/ame]

A heavenly ad is turning hellish for Axe.

The deodorant brand has seen its latest campaign banned in South Africa because its depiction of gorgeous angels falling from heaven offends Christians, the Daily Mail reports.

Carrying the tagline "Angels will fall," the 60-second commercial sees models sporting wings and halos crashing down from the sky as a man walks down an Italian street. The smitten angels then throw their halos down as they chase after their fresh-smelling prey.

Following a complaint from a male Christian viewer, who said he was upset by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance," the country's Advertising Standards Authority moved to ban the ad on the presumption that other viewers would also be offended.

"The problem is not so much that angels are used in the commercial, but rather that the angels are seen to forfeit, or perhaps forego their heavenly status for mortal desires," the ASA ruled.

"This is something that would likely offend Christians in the same manner as it offended the complainant."

Wonder what they'll make of those Victoria's Secret ads ...
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I guess the 'offended Christian male' & the ASA haven't read Genesis 6:

1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of Elohim (God) saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, 'My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.'

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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Muck;2038005; said:
Axe Deodorant Ad Banned for Offending Christians

Axe Excite : full version film (HD) - YouTube



I guess the 'offended Christian male' & the ASA haven't read Genesis 6:
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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Well, if you're going to make a commercial about a bunch of gay tranny Nephilim, you should expect you'llpiss somebody off.
 
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MaxBuck;2038033; said:
I've been offended by the mind-numbingly stupid Axe ads from the get-go. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped the motherfuckers from proliferating like rabbits.
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The kids are going crazy for Axe product because of the marketing campaign though, which implies there's some sort of pheromone in the bottle that attracts women. It's been a very effective and successful campaign to get people to pay $5 (Axe) for a Unilever product that's already available in a bigger container for $2 (Suave) with the exact same formula & fragrance.

Sheep.
 
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Dryden;2038457; said:
The kids are going crazy for Axe product because of the marketing campaign though, which implies there's some sort of pheromone in the bottle that attracts women. It's been a very effective and successful campaign to get people to pay $5 (Axe) for a Unilever product that's already available in a bigger container for $2 (Suave) with the exact same formula & fragrance.

Sheep.
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It's Drakkar Noir for millennials.
 
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Buckeye86;2038031; said:
everyone knows that we are allowed to ignore everything in the old testament except the part about dudes banging each other :shake:
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Indeed, because the all-powerful, all-knowing god of the universe changed his mind about the things that made him look like a dumbass desert-dwelling goat [strike]fucker[/strike] herder from the Bronze Age.

Of course, this assumes that most christians actually know what is in the bible beyond the popular prayers and verses. :lol:
 
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