Now this is what I call culturally relevant outreach. I love the small print on the bottom. I can see Christian daisy dukes sweeping the Religious Right.
Thank you, Jon, for that very enlightening picture. I think it brings up a very important point: how to share what one has to say with others in a way they understand without reinforcing what's wrong with us? It's hard to get an audience without catering to the commercially-driven, low-attention-span, sex-and-violence-obcessed crap in our society. Maybe all this is one reason why I'm not really doing any ministry these days. -Matt
I always wonder if the people who design, produce, and (most frightenly) buy this kind of stuff realize that wearing it is a guaranteed way to *not* be taken seriously. Maybe someday I'll ask...
hmmm...i guess i thought it was poking fun at overly "relevant" ministry/marketing. i think we, the pomos (wow, what a potential typo disaster), are often more reactionary than our i mean, these clearly are not real...am i reading these comments wrong? i think i'll just go back to my coffee.
I saw the joke as well, but I guess it got me thinking about the t-shirts and other paraphanelia that does actually get made and bought. I don't think some of the t-shirts I've seen do a whole lot to represent Christians in a manner that leads others to believe we're not actually reactionary and simplistic thinkers.
And maybe I'm out of it, but what are pomos? (I am too brain dead from all day work on law projects to figure it out.) And who are they/we possibly more reactionary than? Sorry...maybe I'm too tired to be reading and writing. :-)
Ok, just to see what's actually out there for Christian t-shirts I googled it. The first site I went to featured a t-shirt (and bumper sticker) that said "Abortion: Infant Genocide" with a swastika in the middle of the first "o" in abortion. It made me want to vomit. This was on a site the professed belief in the bible and Jesus. I could not believe what I found on this site. Sadly, what's real is sometimes worse than the jokes that mock its existence. Maybe this needs to be a whole post on my blog...
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Thank you, Jon, for that very enlightening picture. I think it brings up a very important point: how to share what one has to say with others in a way they understand without reinforcing what's wrong with us? It's hard to get an audience without catering to the commercially-driven, low-attention-span, sex-and-violence-obcessed crap in our society. Maybe all this is one reason why I'm not really doing any ministry these days.
-Matt
I always wonder if the people who design, produce, and (most frightenly) buy this kind of stuff realize that wearing it is a guaranteed way to *not* be taken seriously. Maybe someday I'll ask...
hmmm...i guess i thought it was poking fun at overly "relevant" ministry/marketing. i think we, the pomos (wow, what a potential typo disaster), are often more reactionary than our i mean, these clearly are not real...am i reading these comments wrong? i think i'll just go back to my coffee.
No, I definitely figured it to be a joke, but in my comments I just mean that it makes me reflect on a bunch of stuff.
-Matt
I saw the joke as well, but I guess it got me thinking about the t-shirts and other paraphanelia that does actually get made and bought. I don't think some of the t-shirts I've seen do a whole lot to represent Christians in a manner that leads others to believe we're not actually reactionary and simplistic thinkers.
And maybe I'm out of it, but what are pomos? (I am too brain dead from all day work on law projects to figure it out.) And who are they/we possibly more reactionary than? Sorry...maybe I'm too tired to be reading and writing. :-)
Ok, just to see what's actually out there for Christian t-shirts I googled it. The first site I went to featured a t-shirt (and bumper sticker) that said "Abortion: Infant Genocide" with a swastika in the middle of the first "o" in abortion. It made me want to vomit. This was on a site the professed belief in the bible and Jesus. I could not believe what I found on this site. Sadly, what's real is sometimes worse than the jokes that mock its existence. Maybe this needs to be a whole post on my blog...
to address abby's questions: pomos= post moderns.
than who? i have no idea what i was going to say there...
i should have stayed home on April 28.
Thanks for clarifying Cory :-) I think my mind is just going to be fuzzy until I'm done with this class. May 9 is almost here, right???
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