Man is He gonna be pissed
One of my new favorite feeds is Religious Freaks, which on Friday featured a post about the lucrative "Christian Industry". This, of course, does not mean the saving of souls and the preaching of the good word, but instead the unseemly manufacture of goods and offering of services targeted at Christian consumers. This was underlined in a recent LA Times story about the International Christian Retail Show in Denver.
Some of the folks are just a little misguided. Take this example from the LA Times article,Over at Booth 266, Michael McCarron has no time to contemplate capitulation.
Wearing a Stars-and-Stripes shirt and a harried look, the owner of Scripture Candy rushed about one afternoon last week filling plates with samples of Christian chocolate for the 9,000 vendors and retailers who visited the five-day trade show. His company, based in Birmingham, Ala., sells an extensive line of candy packaged in little bags printed with Bible verses.
The candy is all top-quality, he said: "You can't put the word of God on something that someone will taste and go 'Blech!' and throw away."
Yes, obviously it is much better to print the Word of God on a candy wrapper which will be thrown away for certain.
It would be easy to make fun of products like Virtuous Woman perfume and "Follow the Son" flip-flops which leaves the message "Follow Jesus" in your footprints. To be honest though, the fact that there even is such a thing as a Christian Yellow Pages scares me silly. The scenario in Heinlein's "If This Goes On&mdash" seems less like fiction and more like prophecy every day.
via Religious Freaks
Some of the folks are just a little misguided. Take this example from the LA Times article,Over at Booth 266, Michael McCarron has no time to contemplate capitulation.
Wearing a Stars-and-Stripes shirt and a harried look, the owner of Scripture Candy rushed about one afternoon last week filling plates with samples of Christian chocolate for the 9,000 vendors and retailers who visited the five-day trade show. His company, based in Birmingham, Ala., sells an extensive line of candy packaged in little bags printed with Bible verses.
The candy is all top-quality, he said: "You can't put the word of God on something that someone will taste and go 'Blech!' and throw away."
Yes, obviously it is much better to print the Word of God on a candy wrapper which will be thrown away for certain.
It would be easy to make fun of products like Virtuous Woman perfume and "Follow the Son" flip-flops which leaves the message "Follow Jesus" in your footprints. To be honest though, the fact that there even is such a thing as a Christian Yellow Pages scares me silly. The scenario in Heinlein's "If This Goes On&mdash" seems less like fiction and more like prophecy every day.
via Religious Freaks