Wal-Mart to stock Talking Jesus....

[Lobster Martini]

From the middle of August, Wal-Mart, the biggest toy retailer in the US, will for the first time stock a full line of faith-based toys.

The Bible-based action figures will initially be given two feet of shelf space in 425 of the company's 3,300 stores nationwide.

<snip>

"If you go in a toy aisle in any major retailer, you will see toys and dolls that promote and glorify evil, destruction, lying, cheating."

"In the girls' aisle where the dolls would be, you see dolls that are promoting promiscuity to very young girls. Dolls will have very revealing clothes on, G-string underwear."

<snip>

Sales of so-called Christian products, including books, music, clothes and gifts, have climbed steadily…<snip>…Accounting for part of that growth is a boom in Christian fantasy fiction, some of it written in response to some Christians' unease over the use of magic in the Harry Potter books.



The Bible-based action figures include Goliath and Samson

If I could have one job in the world, I would want to be the person who writes for Talking Jesus…

(Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6916287.stm)

[Deja Q]

1. So the toys that glorify things good... the company that makes them, are they good, evil,

or non-religious in which case those idols are surely false idols?

[Kutjara]

2. I'm imagining he'll have a voice like Henny Youngman...

...and come out with stuff like, "Carpentry? Don't talk to me about carpentry!" and "Take my disciples...please."

[Lobster Martini]

8. If I respond to that, I will be struck by lightning or a rubber chicken...(n/t).

[havocmom]

9. I'm thinking more like Lewis Black,

Hope he reads DU :hi:

[karlrschneider]

18. Or Rodney Dangerfield: "I get no respect!...I need to feed 5000 people

and Dad sent me 3 lousy fish!"

[knitter4democracy]

3. They're worried about violence, and they have David and Goliath toys?

That makes no sense at all.

[havocmom]

6. They had a lot of ass's jawbones laying around?

:shrug:

[hobbit709]

4. I don't care if it rains or freezes

as long as I got my plastic Jesus

[sutz12]

22. 'sittin' on the dashboard of my car.... nt

[havocmom]

5. Can see the complaints about the toys that promote bad stuff, but talking Jesus?

I'm waiting for the line of Buddhist action figures... or would they be more inaction figures?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. A Goliath action figure?

Doesn't he just get hit with a stone in the head and fall over?

And why is he wrestling with Sampson?

What's next, David and Delilah? Argheth upon argeth.

[Norrin Radd]

24. That's not "wrestling" you see in that pic.

;-)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

28. :o

:spray:

[aquart]

10. Is he big enough to date Mary Magdalene Barbie?

[Brigid]

13. Coming soon to a toy store near you!

:rofl:

[jody]

11. Made in China? n.t

[Brigid]

16. Probably.

They make everything else these days. Then it either poisons you or falls apart.

[melody]

12. Still waiting for Jesus with kung fu grip

:)

[Forkboy]

14. "Christian fantasy fiction"...Great,a sequel to the Bible!

[mzteris]

I thought that was the

NT already.

(Sorry, just had to say it.)

[billyoc]

15. Moneylenders' tables NOT sold separately. n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. And I'll bet there made in CHINA

n/t

[mzteris]

19. Is he going to speak THE KING's ENGLISH?

bwaaaahaaaaahaaaaaa........

Wait'll the moms catch them having Jesus and Mary (Magdalene) kissing and playing house and everything. lol.....

I think "Christianity" just jumped the shark.

[asjr]

20. Obviously they will do anything for a quick

buck. The USA has become rude, crude and crass.

[mzteris]

21. Just read the article and had a thought

VIOLENCE?

You think they'll have a Crucifixion set complete with little nails and fake blood? Maybe a crown of thorns or a soldier with a spear to pierce the side?

ooo oooo - I know -

how about a little bag of STONES so they can throw them at the infidel dolls. Or at Mary for committing adultery with one of the disciples. Or the disciples with each other.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

23. There is a very old folk song about this....

http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/plastic0.htm


ARTIST: George Cromarty and Ed Rush
TITLE: Plastic Jesus
Lyrics and Chords





I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far

/ D - / G - / D - A - / 1st, 2nd / D A D - /

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I'm afraid He'll have to go
His magnets ruin my radio
And if I have a wreck He'll leave a scar

/ D - - - / - - A - / D - / G - / D A D - /

Riding down a thoroughfare
With His nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but He don't mind
Trouble coming He don't see
He just keeps His eye on me
And any other thing that lies behind

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Though the sunshine on His back
Make Him peel, chip and crack
A little patching keeps Him up to par

When I'm in a traffic jam
He don't care if I say "damn"
I can let all my curses roll
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
'Cause he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once His robe was snowy white
Now it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar

If I weave around at night
And policemen think I'm tight
They never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask

Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Ride with me and have a dram
Of the blood of the Lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar

[emilyg]

25. I'd rather have that than G.I.Joe

[annabanana]

26. woof

[otherlander]

27. Sorry, Jesus. This is how humans work, you see.

If you tell people to be nice to each other, they'll kill you. Then they'll hijack your message and make money off your image to fund doing the exact opposite of what you said.

Don't take it personally, man. They did the same thing to MLK.