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R.Wreck
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USA
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Posted - 04/17/2005 :  18:30:01  Show Profile Send R.Wreck a Private Message
Get your very own talking jesus! Yes, they are for real.

The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley

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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 04/18/2005 :  01:03:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
"I don't care if it rains or freezes,
As long as I've got my plastic Jesus,
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car...."


The selling of religious icons, relics and artifacts to the franticly obcessed faithful is a business that doubtless dates back the first religion. In the Middle Ages, anything from hand-crafted statuettes and paintings, to bits of kindling true cross slivers, to various scraps of a defunct saint's carcass could be had for a price all over Christiandom. Some of it was pretty imaginative and even artistic. The Shroud of Turin, for example.

The only thing that has changed is the technology, and that the art and imagination has fled like a thief, pun intended.

And yet again, I find myself amused by the depiction of a blue-eyed, caucasion native of the ancient Mid-east. Don't any of these peddlers of nonsense or their customers ever pay any attention at all to detail?

No, apparently not.

Ah well. No doubt the dolls'll sell nicely as did the junk of yore, doing their part in keeping the ecomomy moving, twenty five dollars at a time (with a generous discount for churchs and bulk buyers, o' course).



"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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Starman
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Sweden
1613 Posts

Posted - 04/18/2005 :  03:31:48   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message
If the dummies/idols cost $25 a piece it can hardly be love of god that motivates the producers.

"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
-- Terry Jones
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beskeptigal
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USA
3834 Posts

Posted - 04/19/2005 :  02:38:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
Speaking of plastic Jesuses, I had a laugh at all the souvenirs for sale at the Vatican. I couldn't help thinking of Jesus the money changers scene in the Bible.
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