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Urban Outfitters Catalog Treats Jesus like Trash
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/jump.jsp?itemID=676&itemType=CATEGORY&iMainCat=336&iSubCat=676&agift&14 ^ | self

Posted on 11/20/2004 10:35:55 PM PST by Yaelle

An Urban Outfitters catalog arrived yesterday and I thumbed through it. In addition to trendy clothing and gift items, they sell "cool" wrapping paper, oh so hip, in colorful prints, of things like bacon slices, sushi, martinis, and Jesus. Jesus? Yes, Warhol-style colored pictures of Jesus with halo, all over the wrapping paper.

Does this convey the true spirit of Christmas to Christians hoping for a little more religion and a little less Santa Claus? I do not think so, seeing the Jesus paper in there among martini or bacon festooned wrap. The next page of the catalog is titled "Sex, Drugs, and Christmas Kitsch" and sells books on marijuana, drinking games (that book's title: Passing Out), and DVDs of Peewee Herman.

I am offended that Christianity's holiness is mocked as a clever bit of kitsch for the anti-cultured youth of America, and I am not even Christian.

Can you imagine if copies of a Torah scroll, perhaps with the Hebrew letters colored pink and lime green, were carelessly used as something to wrap trinkets in and toss away? Passages from the Koran? Would the ACLU stand for that?

What can be done to hurt the business of this fine company who shows such utter disrespect for what is sacred for the majority of Americans?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: antichristianbias; christianbashing; disrespect; jesus; religion; urbanoutfitters
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To: Yaelle

Thanks for the ping and support.

The problem is the "kitsch" part. Sacramental Christianity uses images but not in the obviously disrespectful way Urban Outfitters intends.

Too bad. I hope it has the opposite, unintended effect.


21 posted on 11/20/2004 11:07:43 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Moonman62

I agree. I smell a RAT.


22 posted on 11/20/2004 11:08:11 PM PST by Gershkies
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To: Yaelle

I dunno... I don't have a problem with the wrapping paper itself... I just would be concerned what Urban Outfitter gifts they are wrapping with it.


23 posted on 11/20/2004 11:08:20 PM PST by dangus
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To: the_gospel_of_thomas
Actually, there's nothing overtly anti-religous that item.

Just because these dolls happen to be sold in putatively secular surroundings, doesn't mean that they're intended as a jab at Christians specifically, or Christianity in general.

In fact, I purchased one of those figures-they also produce a similiar Moses action figure-as a present for my mother, and she seemed to enjoy it.

So far as I know, we aren't Muslims and aren't obligated to follow any sort of proscription against representing Christ in paintings, statuary, sculpture, etc.

24 posted on 11/20/2004 11:10:37 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: Gershkies

http://www.stoptheaclu.org/default.php

won't stop this particular assault, but it's a darn good start!


25 posted on 11/20/2004 11:13:09 PM PST by gidget7 (God Bless America, and our President George W. Bush)
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To: Gershkies

One way is to lobby Congress and have them put thru a clause in the bill of rights, or hate crimes laws or both, that they do include Christianity, just for those who don't understand that.


26 posted on 11/20/2004 11:27:27 PM PST by gidget7 (God Bless America, and our President George W. Bush)
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To: durasell
Uh, Richard Hayne, the Chairman and President of Urban Outfitters is a staunch Republican and supporter of our President. You might want to re-think that.

Serious??

27 posted on 11/20/2004 11:29:17 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Yeah, pretty serious. I have to assume it's true. On the other hand, I can't condemn him too much. He's a businessman catering to a very, very fickle and relatively small demographic slice. Abercrombie & Fitch (SP?) gets in trouble, too, if memory serves, for its line of t-shirts.


28 posted on 11/20/2004 11:32:00 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Yaelle

I am a Christian and I am deeply offended that the culture feels well within bounds to trash my faith.

I am also offended that candidates from the left feel that they can swindle me into believing they share my values simply because they use the word "GOD" during the last two weeks of a campaign.

I am further enraged by the liberal left columnists who compared Christians who voted for Bush (fundies) to Islamofascists who killed 3,000 Americans and continue to wreak havoc in the Middle East.


29 posted on 11/20/2004 11:48:23 PM PST by PowerPro (DOUBLE W - He's STILL the one. Now don't that feel GOOD????)
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To: Yaelle
The beat goes on. I hope that the Christians in America have opened their eyes. None of the things that Christians claim to be against in America (abortion, homosexuals blatantly flaunting themselves, the eradication of all things remotely Christian from "public" places, etc.) could go on without the Christians approval. We have been run over by nuts on the Left because we buy into their propaganda or we refuse to stand up. I've heard people in my own church say things like:

"I don't need to see the Ten Commandments in public to obey them."

"If gays want to marry that's their business - it's between them and God."

Wake up fools.
30 posted on 11/20/2004 11:49:17 PM PST by Jaysun (If you are what you eat then I'm cheap, fast, and bad for your health.)
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To: durasell

I wonder if he even knows what the catalog contains?


31 posted on 11/21/2004 12:59:26 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

He probably does -- the whole ghetto-opoly (SP?) was a big deal.

The whole irony, iconoclastic thing has a very short shelf life. The trends cycle through at a sickeningly fast rate. This stuff will probably be gone by spring. That said, I wonder about his business model. How do you keep up with the trends and how do you mass market hip? The whole proposition seems a little shaky to me, but hey, what do I know?


32 posted on 11/21/2004 1:03:57 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Yaelle

Thanks for your support. I know that gut reaction your're talking about.


33 posted on 11/21/2004 1:56:12 AM PST by SirLurkedalot (Kevin Sites is an a**hole.)
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To: Yaelle

Another free gift from WHOIS.COM. Here's the info on U.O.D., Inc.

Registrant:
U.O.D., Inc.

Address:
300 Delaware Avenue Suite 307
Wilmington, DE 19801
US

First Registered:
May 01, 1996

Administrative Contact:
Kubacki, Kenneth J. (KK1770) kubacki@DEHOLD.COM
801 West Street
WILMINGTON, DE 19801-1545
US
(302) 656-8900 fax: (302) 428-1410

Technical Contact:
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Master, Web
U.O.D., Inc
300 Delaware Avenue Suite 307
Wilmington, DE 19801
US


34 posted on 11/21/2004 5:24:25 AM PST by eagle11 (Judge a religion not by the words of its adherents, but by their actions.)
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To: durasell

I will NEVER buy from Abercrombie because of their T-shirt with the gymnast on the rings in the L position, and the caption "L is for loser," referencing Paul Hamm, probably. My son is a gymnast. I am appalled at that company too.


35 posted on 11/21/2004 11:33:16 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle; Salem; NYer; Salvation

Ping


36 posted on 11/21/2004 11:36:09 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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