Faith Night

Published on May 26, 2006 By Ionolast In Religion

Faith Night has long been a popular promotion for minor league baseball parks -- particularly in the South. Looking to capitalize on local church-going fans, more than 40 teams in minor league baseball and football have added Christian rock concerts and bobble-head dolls of biblical characters to their game-time entertainment.

As if professional athletes are good christian examples. Cursing, scratching themselves, fighting........

Bobble-head dolls of biblical characters? LMFAO!!! What kind of respect is that?

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Comments

bakerstreet

on May 27, 2006

"As if professional athletes are good christian examples. Cursing, scratching themselves, fighting........

Bobble-head dolls of biblical characters? LMFAO!!! What kind of respect is that?"

Don't you have that backwards? The christians aren't organizing this stuff, the baseball organizations are. Marketing to churchy folks isn't really anything new, is it? Whether people fall for it much or not I don't know.

As for the bobbleheads I doubt you'd see Jesus, but it does show that Christians are less apt to behead you for blasphemy.

Ionolast

on May 27, 2006

The christians aren't organizing this stuff, the baseball organizations are.

What's the difference? Christians don't want to hear cursing and they don't want to see scratching and fighting.

As for the bobbleheads I doubt you'd see Jesus, but it does show that Christians are less apt to behead you for blasphemy.

Bobbleheads are meant to be funny. THAT'S blasphemy. If you mean you doubt there'll be a Jesus bobblehead, maybe not, but there's one of Moses.

bakerstreet

on May 27, 2006

"What's the difference? Christians don't want to hear cursing and they don't want to see scratching and fighting."

Well, it would be hypocritical for a church to put together a cursing and scratching and fighting night, but lots of businesses target christians, successfully and otherwise. If there's a lack of respect there, it's the business that has associated their product, not christians.

I've flipped past too much late-night BET to think that baseball marketing to christians is outrageous. Once you've seen how ex-rappers preach the word blinged out with a constant 1-800-Donate overlay, scratching and spitting isn't quite as vivid.

If you want to see chaos, go to one of the southern theme parks in teh summer when they have their 'church' days, or one of the vacations spots when they have "youth retreats". It might as well be a bacchanal.

"Bobbleheads are meant to be funny. THAT'S blasphemy. If you mean you doubt there'll be a Jesus bobblehead, maybe not, but there's one of Moses"

I don't think funny equals blasphemy, really, does it? We aren't talking about Islam, after all. There were lots of biblical jokes from my long-forgotten church days.

Ionolast

on May 27, 2006

I don't think funny equals blasphemy, really, does it?

I think laughing at a biblical figure is blasphemous.

We aren't talking about Islam, after all.

That has more to do with the amount of tolerance for blasphemy.

momijiki

on May 27, 2006

Scratching? Doesn't that have to do more with being itchy than it does about religious teaching? It might not be attractive (and is offensive along the lines of nose picking)is it really religiously offensive?

Ionolast

on May 27, 2006

Not religiously offensive. Seeing them scratch their crotches offends me and I'm not even religious.

bakerstreet

on May 28, 2006

"I think laughing at a biblical figure is blasphemous."

How odd is that? You don't believe in any holiness or divinity in the book or subject, but consider laughing at the characters blasphemy. I grant it quite a bit more, and don't.

kingbee

on May 28, 2006

As for the bobbleheads I doubt you'd see Jesus

you'd have been more accurate if you worded it slightly differently: 'i doubt you'd see a single jesus bobblehead.'

kingbee

on May 28, 2006

but wait...there's more!

btw, i guess black muslims have no problem with images and/or bobblehead representation of muhammed ali.

Ionolast

on May 28, 2006

How odd is that? You don't believe in any holiness or divinity in the book or subject, but consider laughing at the characters blasphemy. I grant it quite a bit more, and don't.

I don't care that it's blasphemous.

Football Jesus!! hahahahahahahaha. That's hilarious! Thanks, kb.

"The Original Black Jesus Bobblehead! Straight from the Projects of Jerusalem..."

Ionolast

on May 28, 2006

Ionolast

on May 28, 2006

While Christian companies are manufacturing Scripture-laden wares from packaged mints to golf balls, many secular companies selling novelty items routinely mix the profound with the profane in an effort to earn profits. En route, it’s a short trip crossing the line from humorous to blasphemous.Movie stars such as Pamela Anderson and Ben Affleck wear “Jesus is my Homeboy” T-shirts. A company called Blue Q sells “Wash Away Your Sins” soap for “liars, cheaters and wrongdoers.” It claims to be a “miraculous product proven to wash away sin after sin, reducing guilt by 98.9 percent or more.” One irreverent online sales site has a nail-throwing “Ninja Messiah” action figure of Jesus Christ sold alongside a host of other religious leaders ranging from the Dalai Lama to Buddha. A company that produces bobble heads of Anna Nicole Smith and Ozzy Osbourne also has a line of Jesus bobble heads, including one playing football.In a culture increasingly hostile to religion, such merchandise doesn’t advance the cause of biblical truth.“There have been products in the Christian market that really have no business being there,” Sholar says. Still, she believes Bible-themed merchandise, along with crosses and angel pins, provides needed encouragement in today’s uncertain world.

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bakerstreet

on May 28, 2006

Wow, football Jesus. I am loosely acquainted with the guy that owns the Lexington Horsemen. The question is, would Jesus stoop to ARENA football...

Are those particular to these events, though? I know there have been a ton of Jesus things like that, but I still find it hard to believe these sports franchises would risk it when they don't have to. Most biblical characters are just people. We don't have the same reverence for prophets.

Oh, well I don't find any of those really blaspemous either. Anything you aren't allowed to laugh at has lost its power, imho; if it is so powerless as to need to be protected by social norms.

Re: The link in #12, you'll find the Assmeblies of God folks get outraged at a lot of things. I'm not surprised when I see that someone ranting about Harry Potter is Assemblies of God, so I would understand how the author of the above would feel the way he does. I wouldn't take it to be the norm, even in AoG circles, though.

Ionolast

on May 28, 2006

Anything you aren't allowed to laugh at has lost its power, imho; if it is so powerless as to need to be protected by social norms.

I think if you laugh at it, it loses it's power.

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