Proctor & Satan

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Date: 21 March 2007 16:37:33

I've just read a report in the BBC's business section of their website; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6471373.stm

For those too lazy to read it. It reports on the culmination of a trial that has been in front of the US courts for 12 years. Four distributors of Amway, a rival in the household cleaning sector, had accused Proctor & Gamble of Satanism. The distributors had told customers that the image used to promote P&G, a moustached man looking over a field of 13 stars, was an image of Satan.

It appears that this is, in fact, just one of several lawsuits that P&G have brought against people passing on this rumour. It had also been suggested that P&G subsidise several Satanist groups. I thought that I had heard every unscrupulous marketing ploy ever but this takes the biscuit. What's worse is that some people seem to have believed it.

As much as I hate large organisations like Proctor & Gamble, I hate people like Amway even more. To use unsubstantiated rumours of this nature is obscene. No wonder some Christians are looked on with contempt by those outside. Does this really help our cause in anyway whatsoever?

In the words of a UK columnist: "You couldn't make it up!"

Rather I'd say: "You really wouldn't want to. Would you?"