Supermarket chain Lidl airbrushes Christian cross out of the picture

Sep 4, 2017 by Jill

by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today:

The supermarket chain Lidl has edited the Christian cross churches in its Greek food range.

Lidl has done this because it ‘does not wish to exclude any religious beliefs’.

Newspapers and other media organisations get into terrible trouble if they are caught altering photographs with easily-available editing technology in order to fit pre-conceived ideas about a particular story.

The ‘fake food’ story is reported by the website KeepTalkingGreece.com

‘You want a picturesque Greek scenery with the church, but you’re bothered to see a cross, claiming reasons of falsely understood political correctness? Then you just remove the cross – in this case: several crosses… It sounds unbelievable but it’s true. It happened in Belgium and the photoshop was done by a well-known German supermarket chain,’ says Keep Talking Greece.

The incident became known after a Belgian customer complained.

‘I am shocked to see the Lidl shops that sell Greek products erase part of the Greek landscape and culture,’ said one customer, Antoine, according to Keep Talking Greece.

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