Comments on: Will Cross Adorn Coca-Cola Cans This Christmas?

By: wee

wee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:15 +0000

crescent moon and star is not a symbol of Islam rather of the Islamic culture, look up all the flags of Muslim countries, most Arab countries wouldn’t have it on there flags but countries influenced by Turks or the ottoman empire will.

By: MISSSSSSH

MISSSSSSH — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:27:37 +0000

DUDE!

By: laughing

laughing — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:47:06 +0000

So is the Christian Whining Brigade — the same folks who have peddling the bogus “war on Christmas” for the past several years and thinks it’s horribly offensive to acknowledge the existence of other faiths with the phrase “happy holidays” — going to get their panties in a bunch if Coke doesn’t use their religion’s symbol on its cans now? Ah, the lengths some people will go to in order to feel “persecuted.”

By: savedbyHisLife

savedbyHisLife — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:24:30 +0000

Adman- I think you might be mistaken. The crescent moon and star is recognized as the symbol of the Muslim religion.

By: hotoffthepress2

hotoffthepress2 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:06:12 +0000

Amen!

By: savedbyHisLife

savedbyHisLife — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:04:25 +0000

James- If you don’t want to accept John 3:16 then John 3:18 is the condition that you will remain in.
“Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”
We were born into this world dead(spiritualy seperated from God)(the consequence of sin).Christ took away the cause of spiritual death at the Cross once and for all, never to be seen by the eyes of God again, so that He could offer us His Life, the only solution to our condition. Salvation is being saved from the consequence of sin which is death by the gift of God which is eternal Life in Christ Jesus(Romans 6:23)(Romans 5:10). It’s not about how good we are or how bad we are, it’s about how dead we are and in need of Life! Come to the end of your rope, the end of your self sufficiency,a point of surrender and that’s where you find Jesus!

By: Adman

Adman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:13:50 +0000

It is unfortunate how the public perceives the symbols as being religious and that Muslims will buy products because they are embellished with such. You are confusing between accepted norms and religious symbols.

First, the crescent moon and the star are depictions of the culture or the geographical region, which happens to be the middle east. Such images are predominant in the region and considered unique due to history of Arabia and not muslims.
The west consider Santa in holidays like Christmas , and the Middle east considers a bright crescent moon and shimmering stars. Big deal! Coca-cola has a team of professionals ranging from cultural analysts, psychologists, researchers that have studied the idea before spending on the brand packaging. Coca-cola is and enthusiastic brad building a successful brand culture. They have simply used imagery in which the market can strongly relate to. It can create positive perception of the brand and increase brand equity bt not necessarily sales. Thus, get use to the auto. replies because your article is redundant for now displaying no sense of pragmatic comprehension, rather whining and immodesty.

Please I strongly encourage you to refer to your analogies hotoffthepress,
Christian cross symbol is to Allah symbol(religious), Santa clause or Easter eggs are to crescent moon and stars(accepted norms). Until you see any genuine religious symbols on packaging, then maybe your article can finally be relevant.
For now continue making t-shirts.

By: BusmasterJones

BusmasterJones — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:54 +0000

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about all of this is that in some countires (think Middle Eastern nations) seeing a religious symbol on a commercial product is seen as a positive to the consumer. The perception of the branding agency may be that use of a Christian symbol in a similar capacity in America is a negative thing or, at best, a hot potato they would rather not touch.

America, for all of it’s bravado about tolerance tends to be rather intolerant of Christians and their views. People are narrow-minded if Muslims are excluded, yet separation of church and state — an interpretation, not a constitutional decree — is invoked at the slightest mention of anything Christian.

Even Christmas, as evidenced here, is marginalized as “not a religious holiday.” As a Christian, I say baloney. Christmas is celebrated culturally and religiously as is Easter. They are not Santa and bunny focused, but Jesus focused in our home and in millions of homes across the world.

By: Vman

Vman — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:09:28 +0000

Coke is an American company and money is green. Sell what sells. Be Capitalists, and not hair splitters. Grow up and invest/trade/sell. Be Americans; don’t be thin skinned Frenchmen. Jeez , when did we become whinny little people?

By: SharkGirl

SharkGirl — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:24:06 +0000

JM, you’re wrong about Christmas being about Christ and Mass. Have you ever done a history of Christmas?

It’s a pagan holiday, not Christian. The Catholics tried to convert the pagans to Christianity by turning the holiday into a so-called Christian holiday. What happened instead was that the pagans converted the Christians.

If you wrap an orange peel around an apple, does the apple now become an orange? No.

Likewise, if you wrap a Christian theme around a pagan holiday, does the pagan holiday become Christian? No.

Once a pagan holiday, always a pagan holiday.

It’s the Christians that need to go back to the basics of the Bible, and stop hijacking a holiday that has nothing to do with Christ. We were never told to celebrate His birthday, which by the way, did not happen in the winter.