Tangentially Speaking, Of Course

Oh man, I love finding out about stuff like this! It really reinforces my belief in an omniscient being watching over us... in order to get material for his stand-up act! It's not that Christians shouldn't be allowed to have sex toys; It's more that there's a group of them out there that wants to sell their own special Christian line of them, and their selling point is that they block out the images of naked people on the box which contains a now-Christianized jelly ring! It reminds me of the days when I listened to Christian Death Metal... boy did I feel silly when I figured out the inherent ridiculousness there.
I think the thing that really gets to me about Christian merchandizing is that it so blatantly spotlights the hypocrisy in modern American Christianity... In an age of Christian video games, which promote the bloody annihilation of everyone who doesn't agree with their particular brand, Christian mega-churches in which people cocoon themselves, living out the majority of their lives among like-minded fellows, Christian camps, Christian Rock, Rap, and Country, Christian lunchboxes, and now Christian sex toys, it seems like rather than Christianity standing up for itself as a personal, individual strength, that a person comes to and stands up for on his own, it is being sold out as yet another fascist crusade, a pre-packaged group activity meant to separate themselves from the world and think of itself as superior to all the unwashed hellbound... I believe the actual edict is to 'Be in the world, not of it,' not 'Be apart from the world, and manufacture your own line of Christ-approved eveningwear.' In a lot of ways it's beginning to remind me of the Muslim fundamentalism you see over here, in which it's ok to kill a woman for not wearing her Mohammed approved, Moqtada al-Sadr stamped Haijab in public, even if she's a Christian and not, in fact, Muslim. Of course, Rick Warren isn't quite there yet, but give his movement time, a few hundred years or so.

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[hooligan]

Fundamentalism is fundamentalism is fundamentalism. I think Shakespeare said that. No, wait. He said, "Fundamentalism by any other name would smell just as sweet... to other fundamentalists." No! It was like, "Fundamentalism is as fundamentalism does." Something like that.

[hooligan]

Try to say "fundamentalism" ten times really fast. "Fun" + "de-mental" + "ism". Fun demented-ism!

[messiestobjects]

I think, translated from the latino, it means 'fun with those who belong in mental clinics'! Right.

[hooligan]

"We got boiled fundamentalism, sauteed fundamentalism, fundamentalism etoufee, pickled fundamentalism, baked fundamentalism, stir-fried fundamentalism, fundamentalism gumbo..." - that dude from Forrest Gump