About as Tacky as It Gets

Dave Hunt sent this to me (not that Dave Hunt, but the Reformed guy named David Hunt who lives in Texas and reads this blog).  He saw this in the local mall and took this picture with his cellphone. 

No, this was not a Christian bookstore, but it might as well have been (or it will be by next the CBA).

Don't even start me on this one . . . (ugh)

Comments

[Russ]

Oh well, I guess you don't want to order any of my new cute Heidelbeargers... squeeze his fuzzy tummy and he's comfy in life and death.

[San]

lol...this gives a whole new meaning to the word "DUMB"

Heidelbeargers... probably chant the confession and catechism(bend the right or left ear) with optional commentary from Zacharias Ursinus (press the nose)

[zrim]

aw, what a "precious moment."

...no wonder american made piety is like 3 sheets to the wind, informed as it is by weak-kneed evangelicalism, romanticism, revivalism and all related ilk. it simply cannot sustain the real world or real life.

...is that what he meant by "don't get me started...?

zrim

[timinator]

Catholics are not the only religion looking dumb. Christians want to market everything what is next a preacher doll who preaches when you squeeze his hand.

[BrianR]

timinator,

Good one. I think, however, that if they make a "preaching doll" it would not preach, but give "words of encouragement & motivation" instead... like Joel Olsteen.

Can you imagine a Joel Olsteen doll? It would be hilarious and frustrating at the same time. Whatever you pushed, you just COULDN'T get him to preach Christ. :-)

[Mike Ratliff]

I tried to think of something that really described how I felt about his and could not get past "Tacky." "Evangelical" Christianiy has been "Tackified" for quite some time now. :-) This is just another installment I suppose.

In Christ

Mike Ratliff

[Nathan]

Mike, I think I'd go for "paving the way to hell with good intentions" but then, tact has never been my strongest suit. Wow is all I can say. I guess it isn't surprising that a church culture increasingly bereft of any real concept of the true Christ would have no problem at all with teaching children that prayers are mindless formulations that can be spouted effectually by inanimate objects. Next they'll be teaching that "in the image of G-d" means "having four limbs, just like a teddy bear."

[Scott]

I don't know what it is about pastor's getting weird Christmas presents. But in the last couple of years, family members have bought my children two of these! They're not cute or cuddly, they are demonically annoying!

[Timothy]

I know this garbage can be found in a Christian Bookstore. When I worked for a Christian bookstore we would have tacky stuff like this.

At that time I was working for the bookstore we had Nintendo games for fundies. Ugh! I seem to remember that one of the objectives of one of these games was to help baby Moses float safely down the Nile. That was the last straw for me. I was slowly denouncing fundamentalism at that time and these “Christian” video games was embarrassing for me to even promote.

Many of these fundie parents felt better that their children are not playing video games that “promoted violence.” No, just promoting no theology to ground their children in the faith! Things like this make it very hard not to use “blue laws” language to express my utter frustration with silly stuff like this.

I know that Mr. Riddlebarger understand because of his history of working in a “Christian” bookstore.

Timothy
timdamanwv@verizon.net

[timinator]

Brian don't say that to loud. You never know when a company might hear of the Joel Olsteen doll and or even worse the anointed Binny Hinn Yuck! Your right no preaching at all just words or encouragement. What a said thing it is to see such Jesus junk not jelping to spread the gospel or teach the children how to get a Biblical foundation.

[Andrew]

A Benny Hinn doll would rock! You pull the hand back and it slaps you in the forehead. It comes with play money that you take from the infirm and put in your pocket. The only thing better would be the Benny Hinn video game!

[Mattumanu]

On more than a coupel of occassions it's seemed that what we are dealing with are hoaxes perpetrated on Christians. I have used numerous sources over the years to prove that different products and different sayings are in fact falsehoods... but in this case, it's true. You can purchase these things below.

http://www.guidinglightvideo.com/shop/PrayerToys.html

But I'd like to know, how is this any worse than any other thing that goes on in the name Christ? The children's classic prayer is as faithless now as it has been for years. It's no surprise that someone recorded it and put it in a plush doll. Why does it matter where kids learn this faithless prayer? They either learn it from thier parents, sunday school teachers, church, God forbid thier pastors... and now they can learn it from a plush toy.

It's just another in a long line of examples of how the church at large... Reformed, Lutheran, Roman, EO... All have turned to apostacy gladly and with a collective "Awwwwwww, ain't dat cute?".