Looking Good for Jesus
This is wrong on sooooooo many levels.
A friend of mine was listening to NPR this morning and heard about a new line of products called “Looking Good for Jesus” being sold by BlueQ. They are marketed with the tag line:
Look your Sunday best! Guaranteed to help you be worthy and get noticed by the King of Kings.
You can get a mirrored compact, sparkling hand cream, and bubble bath, this final one being the most disturbing for some reason. And for those of you wondering whether there is any balm in Gilead (Jeremiah 8:2), you can now purchase the Looking Good for Jesus lip balm. There is also a shopping tote and coin purse to hold your beauty supplies. (I wonder if the coin purse automatically tithes.) Alas, there is no Whore of Babylon nail polish.
This same company also offers a product line called “Wash Away Your Sins.”
These products don’t exactly qualify as kitsch, since they seem to be sold with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but perhaps Tyler Williams might like to add them to his Jesus Junk & Christian Kitsch series.
On February 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
You want the compact for your birthday–WHICH IS FRIDAY?????
On February 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Kevin–give me an e-shout! I would love to ask you about Lithuania. We are thinking of a trip this summer.
Mary
On February 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Mary,
I don’t have your e-mail. Contact me through my “about” page. I’d love to hear from you.