It seems the Religious Industry is getting into modern fashion. Designs by Satan, but just claim it’s from “God” and people who say they are Christians will buy it. If you want to see what I’m talking about, take a look at a post I spotted over at the blog A Little Leaven. The site linked to there has plenty of other garbage you won’t believe is being peddled with the title “Christian”. I’m not sure how baby tees and skin tight sleeveless tops for women helps to minister the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I certainly know how it totally stands against scripture.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 (New King James Version)
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Which means that garbage only ministers to THE FLESH.
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August 3rd, 2007 at 1:34 am
As a general point, you are right. But that picture specifically … it was just a regular sleeveless T - shirt. The neckline isn’t even low cut, and the area where the sleeves are supposed to be doesn’t plunge. To be honest, as T - shirts go, you couldn’t get much more modest. The problem is how the company is advertising the shirt … getting the thin model and having her dress in a shirt and jeans that are too small to makie them skin - tight. And the worst part is them having her do the sexually provocative pose (apparently she has been watching Paula White or Yolanda Adams). In short, the product is not worldly, but the presentation is very much so. The sad part is that there really is no need to do this. Dressing and posing this woman like she is trying to get some sailor on shore leave to take her home for the evening isn’t going to make this T - shirt sell. That would have been accomplished by making the T shirt looks better (the color and artwork look horrible, and I wouldn’t have even known that the emblem on the front was a cross if I did not have prior knowledge of it being a Christian product) and - if my previous experience with Christian merchandising is any indication - ending the outrageous overcharging that they do for Christian products and price it competitively. And towards that end … are they a Christian company, or just a company marketing a Christian product? Because if they are the former, why do they have to stick crosses (or emblems that vaguely resemble crosses) on T shirts and market them to Christians anyway? Why not just make your plain every day run of the mill white, black, red, and blue T shirts with nothing on them like everybody else? Sell them to the discount stores and what have you, and compete with the secular clothing manufacturers in the secular stores. Advertise to the churches and on Christian radio your brand name or company name, so they can come out and buy your stuff instead of Hanes or Fruit of the Loom, and the unchurched will buy it too because it is of similar quality and competitively priced. And your profits would go to help the poor and support prison ministries and missionary activities. But no, these people don’t want any of that. They want to use sex (whether by virtue of a man seeing it and buying it because he desires the fantasy associated with her image, or a woman buying it to associate herself with that image so her boyfriend/husband/object of her affection will respond to HER body …. or more accurately the fantasy of the model’s sexiness that she is projecting onto herself by virtue of wearing the shirt) to put that low quality merchandise (just a regular T shirt plus its ugly) in a Christian catalogue or bookstore and charge $15 dollars for something that would sell for $3 in Dollar General if it didn’t have an AMBIGUOUS cross on it. THAT is the real problem.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 am
Bro, that is not modest. It’s skin fitting.
A shirt where the woman’s bust line pokes out a cross, not modest and rather gaudy. The product is very much worldly, because it’s not modest and disrespects the faith.
(Oh what has become of the days when a woman, especially Southern women actually did dress modestly…)
The whole peddling in Christ’s name (regardless of who runs the company) is bogus and devoid of a true foundation.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 am
[...] Posted by healtheland on August 3rd, 2007 From A Little Leaven by way of Independent Conservative: a company marketing a sexy T - shirt with a cross on it. Or so it appears. The truth is that the T - shirt is just a regular sleeveless number … no plunging neckline or huge cutoff area where the sleeves are supposed to be. Isn’t that revealing. And the cross is actually quite ambiguous … open to interpretation really. A Christian looking at it would associate it with a cross, but someone of a different mindset would think that it is just some artistic symbol that is commonly on such attire. [...]
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:48 am
Their Vneck junk is on closeout. And this is not exactly a seen of righteousness either!