Censoring 'Christ'

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Censoring 'Christ'

By Carol Brown

If you want to send flowers from Marks & Spencer, a high end department store in the UK, you’d better watch your language when sending a message along with those lovely blooms. The Daily Mail reports:

 

The words 'Christ' and 'Jesus Christ' have been placed on a list of banned words by Marks & Spencer and cannot be used in gift messages.

 

Customers buying a bunch of flowers who try to add a free message containing them are prevented from completing their order.

An on-screen notification, which pops up if any blocked words are entered, reads: 'Sorry, there's something in your message we can't write.'

'Christ' and 'Jesus Christ' join other banned words including 'f***' and 'gay' - but some terms including jihad, Buddha and Allah are accepted.

'Terrorist' and 'd**k' can also be included in messages.

The policy emerged earlier today after one customer was stopped from buying a £35 bouquet for a funeral because she said in the gift message that it was from a family in 'Christ Church Teddington'.

When Gerardine Stockford, 53, phoned customer services an employee told her that it must be a blocked word, according to The Sunday Times.

Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, was shocked.

He said: 'If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.'

Despite the supermarket giant being made aware of the issue yesterday, it still has not changed the facility.

A spokesman for Marks & Spencer said: 'An automatic phrase checker is in place to prevent the use and misuse of certain words and it includes hundreds of words of varying nature.

'The words Jesus and Christ are included to prevent their misuse.'

It remains to be seen if this was an innocent error or something more intentional.

Either way, someone needs to tell the Archbishop of Canterbury that there is ample reason to be “alarmed,” floral deliveries aside. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for a small handful of examples among what has become an infinite cascade of examples of civilization collapse in Great Britain (and throughout Europe).

[Hat tips: Jihad Watch for the article on Marks & Spencer. For many of the links at the end of this blog, a big hat tip to Pamela Geller whose website is an incredible repository of information on the subject of Islam. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are tireless warriors in this fight of the ages. God bless them both.]

If you want to send flowers from Marks & Spencer, a high end department store in the UK, you’d better watch your language when sending a message along with those lovely blooms. The Daily Mail reports:

The words 'Christ' and 'Jesus Christ' have been placed on a list of banned words by Marks & Spencer and cannot be used in gift messages.

Customers buying a bunch of flowers who try to add a free message containing them are prevented from completing their order.

An on-screen notification, which pops up if any blocked words are entered, reads: 'Sorry, there's something in your message we can't write.'

'Christ' and 'Jesus Christ' join other banned words including 'f***' and 'gay' - but some terms including jihad, Buddha and Allah are accepted.

'Terrorist' and 'd**k' can also be included in messages.

The policy emerged earlier today after one customer was stopped from buying a £35 bouquet for a funeral because she said in the gift message that it was from a family in 'Christ Church Teddington'.

When Gerardine Stockford, 53, phoned customer services an employee told her that it must be a blocked word, according to The Sunday Times.

Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, was shocked.

He said: 'If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.'

Despite the supermarket giant being made aware of the issue yesterday, it still has not changed the facility.

A spokesman for Marks & Spencer said: 'An automatic phrase checker is in place to prevent the use and misuse of certain words and it includes hundreds of words of varying nature.

'The words Jesus and Christ are included to prevent their misuse.'

 

 

It remains to be seen if this was an innocent error or something more intentional.

 

Either way, someone needs to tell the Archbishop of Canterbury that there is ample reason to be “alarmed,” floral deliveries aside. 

more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/censoring_christ.html#ixzz3TKLnRpe8 
 

[pierrepaul]

I am not familiar with local British slang, but where I live, the most common use of the words "Jesus", "Jesus Christ" and "Christ" and their various derivations are not in contexts that bring honour and reverance to the Son of God; rather they are used in such a manner that would be condemned by the 3rd commandment (2nd by Catholic reckoning), commonly referred to as "profanity". There may be nothing sinister about Marks & Spencers' policy.