Welcome to Christian Crap of the Week. This may be the worst shirt chosen from the single largest cache of Christian Crap t-shirts I've ever seen. And check out the site. To be selected as the worst among these really does say something. It's like being chosen 'Least Likely to Name This Color' from a pool of 50 blind people.
Not only is this one awful, the rest are just as horrible. There's not a single original idea on the whole page. What is that 'creative team meeting' like?
Boss: "Good morning team, what can we rip off today?"
This whole thing boils down to two words: intellectual theft. Theft and exploitation. It is wrong. It does Christians no good. It makes us look like mindless thieving shills. And if I didn't know Jesus, I wouldn't want to buy what these shirts are selling.
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12 Cachinnations
What's worse is that they say it's "Hip Christian Clothing" I think a better phrase would be..."Desperate for attention but not smart enough to do anything about it Christian Clothing" or "We're out to give Christianity a bad name by showint that we rip off other people's designs and sell them for our own profit...and we sell them in your house of prayer...Clothing"...yeah i like the second one...this sight is right up there with other 'christian' sights like www.godhatesfags.com ... Don't you just adore people who give Jesus a bad name?? (dripping with sarcasm)
Posted on 4/25/2006
Yeah. I have to say that those "Hip Christian" t-shirts give me raisin-face. I admit that I had (and wore) a Coca-Cola rip-off design in high school that said, "Jesus Christ--He's the Real Thing". I'm still trying to repress that memory. I love Him so much, and I hope that I am representing Him to the world in a better way now than I did then.
Posted on 4/25/2006
I feel you, Tracy. Like I said, I used to have the 'Air Jesus' t-shirts. Ugh. Like I've said, He's not my 'homeboy,' my mascot, or my product to market. He's just ever-so-slightly more than that, don't you think?
Posted on 4/25/2006
Like the Savior of our souls, you mean? :)
Posted on 4/25/2006
When I was a wee lad, I had a t-shirt with "Messiah/Sight for Sore Eyes" on it, and the "Messiah" part was all blurry like some old Mossimo logo (or like this). Of course, I don't think I even knew what Mossimo was much less that the shirt was a mimick gimick. I just thought, "That's about the coolest thing I've ever seen on a t-shirt. You're looking at it... but it's all blurry'n'stuff. Whoah!" So I bought it.
Posted on 4/25/2006
I haven't seen the one you're talking about, Keith, but I get it. And remember, I don't think that the propagation of this junk is kids' faults at all. What did we know when we were kids? But now as leaders and adults, we have to do better by our youth. I have more friends today who struggle because the faith of their teenage years wasn't built deep enough. It was all appearances. We can do better.
Posted on 4/25/2006
(Looking at my Aquafina bottle)
AquaJesus
The TRUE Living Water
Something. I dunno. Wow! You could do this with all kinds of kitch!
Posted on 4/25/2006
(Looking at my Rold Gold pretzels...)
Holy Gold
America's #1 Savior
since 0 AD
Fat Free
Huh... what do you know? It does work!
Posted on 4/25/2006
I kinda want to start t-shirt sales that are just wrong factually.
"My boss is a Jewish Tax Collector"
Posted on 4/26/2006
You'll love these. Especially this one.
Posted on 4/26/2006
This one is even better although it looks contrived. O.K. Fini!
Posted on 4/26/2006
Wow...just...wow.
Posted on 4/26/2006