I think it was in bad taste. BB jumps on any housemate who discusses the practices or habits of any other nationality other than British.
So why then is it OK for them to mock the Catholic church? It does seem very hypocritical of BB.
I jumped a bit when I saw the confessional and the exact replica of the screen, but then I thought it is a good thing to show the very real benefits of confessing and surely Catholics should be proud that their religion has been shown to have a sensible way of dealing with tensions in the community.
And surely the reactions of FMs to the HMs this year show that a little bit of spiritual guidance works wonders - Deana and Adam for instance both have their guiding frameworks whereas some of the outsiders seem a bit adrift in secular space.
I never even thought anything about it in an anti Catholic way. Infact I thought it was impressive that the Hmts took it seriously and confessed to things they might never have done normally.
I'm not a Catholic but I must admit to feeling uncomfortable with that task. In childhood I had friends who feared the confessional and I know held it in great respect and that came to mind when I watched it. I did wonder how devout Catholics would feel about a central part of their faith being used in this way. I wonder if the next task will involve mats???:eek:
They didn't use any of the sacrament, they didn't mock the priesthood, and they didn't assign any real Acts in the confessional. They didn't even have a real person in the box - just a shadow that nodded, but its lips never moved when it "spoke". There wasn't even anything specifically Catholic about it, aside from calling it a confessional, but Catholicism doesn't have a monopoly on that concept.
They didn't use any of the sacrament, they didn't mock the priesthood, and they didn't assign any real Acts in the confessional. They didn't even have a real person in the box - just a shadow that nodded, but its lips never moved when it "spoke". There wasn't even anything specifically Catholic about it, aside from calling it a confessional, but Catholicism doesn't have a monopoly on that concept.
That really isn't true. They had obviously been given a particular wording to use before their 'confessions' which bore some resemblance to the RC wording. The inside of the box, including the screen & 'nodding shadow' would be recognisable to all catholics.
I'm a catholic, thought the task was a bit odd. Didn't think it was right, was almost as though they made a mockery of it.. Oh well!! Onwards and upwards!
I have no religion or faith, but even I thought that the task was unnecessary.
Why screen such a pointless task even if there is a small chance of offending those of the Catholic faith?
It's not as if it was hugely entertaining. IMO one of the endless drawn out and boring fillers for the HL show......oh and of course another contrived situation to show the Outsiders and Conor in particular in a repentant haze in order to narrow the divide in the house and drum up some voting revenue.
The whole thing was a thinly veiled attempt at manipulating the edit and to mimic religion in order to do it was badly judged and in poor taste IMO, but I have come to expect nothing else from the untalented production team of this BB.
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So why then is it OK for them to mock the Catholic church? It does seem very hypocritical of BB.
And surely the reactions of FMs to the HMs this year show that a little bit of spiritual guidance works wonders - Deana and Adam for instance both have their guiding frameworks whereas some of the outsiders seem a bit adrift in secular space.
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That really isn't true. They had obviously been given a particular wording to use before their 'confessions' which bore some resemblance to the RC wording. The inside of the box, including the screen & 'nodding shadow' would be recognisable to all catholics.
.............'you people', on the other hand.................
I thought the music was supposed to be Godfather-y, no?
Why screen such a pointless task even if there is a small chance of offending those of the Catholic faith?
It's not as if it was hugely entertaining. IMO one of the endless drawn out and boring fillers for the HL show......oh and of course another contrived situation to show the Outsiders and Conor in particular in a repentant haze in order to narrow the divide in the house and drum up some voting revenue.
The whole thing was a thinly veiled attempt at manipulating the edit and to mimic religion in order to do it was badly judged and in poor taste IMO, but I have come to expect nothing else from the untalented production team of this BB.