Jesus-Themed Cosmetics Pulled From Shelves

(CBS/AP)  A cosmetics line that extolled the virtues of "Looking Good for Jesus" has been pulled from stores in Singapore after a number of complaints from shoppers, according to media reports Tuesday.

Promising to "Redeem your reputation and more," the product line included a "virtuous vanilla"-flavored lip balm and a "Get Tight with Christ" hand and body cream, The Straits Times said.

The product line also boasts a sparkly body cream, a coin purse and a bubble bath that claims the user will feel as though they're "walking on water."

Wing Tai Retail, which manages the British retailer Topshop, removed the line late last month after receiving complaints.

"These products trivialize Jesus Christ and Christianity," it quoted Nick Chui, 27, one of the complainants, as saying. "There are also sexual innuendoes in the messages and the way Jesus is portrayed in these products."

One product has packaging with the image of Jesus wearing a bright white robe as he looks toward the heavens, while a heavily made-up blonde woman with an arm draped across his shoulder gazes dreamily at his face.

"Why would anyone use religious figures to promote vanity products? It's very disrespectful and distasteful," the report quoted 24-year-old accountant Grace Ong, as saying.

An unnamed Wing Tai Retail spokesman apologized to anyone who was offended.

Christians make up about 15 percent of multicultural Singapore's population of 4.5 million people.

[j-whitman]

God said in the 1st Commandment noone is God but him roughly 1,500 years before Jesus was born.

But who''s the author of "I am afraid of jesus" ??? - I have no idea, I''m not -- He was just a man, a good family man

[libsrweak]

ilikecats1,,,, Can you name this author ?? -- "Jesus isn''''t God"


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**********j-whitman do you know the author of "I am afraid of jesus"

[j-whitman]

ilikecats1,,,, Can you name this author ?? -- "Jesus isn''t God"

[myidoncbs]

kane497 asks, "How long should he [God] tolerate badness?"

Well, let''s see... how about waiting until the game/test is over, rather than just shutting it down in the middle and sending the losers off to h3ll. But he''s an impatient dude, I guess. He set up the game board and the rules. He created all the players. He knew everything that would happen before he even set the whole thing up, yet back in his youth (the babbling times), he went around actively killing off players that he got tired of, rather than waiting to the end to see if they''d turn around. The game is rigged (by Him) and he STILL can''t play fair!

BTW, what''s all this talk about "symbolic"? I''ve heard that the babble is the literal Word of God, infallible and immutable! You can''t have it both ways. Either it''s symbolic, or it''s literal. Pick one or the other. Either way you pick, it''s still going to be self-contradictory and, therefore, false.

Why is that? Well, even if we assume that God is the original author, human beings translated and re-translated and changed it and modified it and altered it. They even removed several important books because they weren''t happy with what they said. So, whatever it started out as, it''s NOT that now. All that''s left is a bunch of incoherent babbling.

[myidoncbs]

"what God said and did in the babble" - MyIDonCBS

"Can''t say as I have ever heard of that book. Are you the author?" - ilikecats1

Just think of a Southern Baptist preacher ranting about the stuff in his holy book, and that should jog your memory.

I think it''s a nice play on words, because if you believe what singinrick says, about half of which contradicts the other half, then you pretty much have to come to the conclusion that the babble is just that-- a bunch a babbling --rather than something that we should use as the basis for governing our daily life, or for charting a path to heaven.

[kane497]

that quote made by myidoncbs sounds crazy Ps. 137 was speaking of symbolic Babylon as in false religion her children or wicked ones, and of course God destroys all wicked or evildoers. How long should he tolerate badness?

[billpl-2009]

evangelicals laughing the butts off at these guys

don''t they know if they want to get money out of Christians all you have to do is pass a plate around
...they''ll give it to you for nothing

[myidoncbs]

"-Only 100?" asks singinrick, implying that christians are so much more loving and forgiving than muslims.

Unfortunately, rick seems to have forgotten what God said and did in the babble, the "infallible word of God"! As a brief reminder, God demands that all his followers kill all those who don''t tow the party line. God Himself wipes out countless villages, towns, whole tribes, even the entire world! The God of the babble has a fondness for killing first born male children. He orders a man to poison his wife to induce an abortion, to determine if she''s been "faithful" to him. He orders the priests to cut off the end of every man child''s p3nis, just for fun. And, let''s never forget Psalm 137:9, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Baby Killers! Baby Killers! Baby Killers!

You''ve got NOTHIN'' to brag about, singin!

[myidoncbs]

"These products trivialize Jesus Christ and Christianity"

It''s hard to trivialize the message of Jesus Christ any more than has already been done, by:

* Christmas (Buy, buy, buy our stuff!)
* Bush (Kill, kill, kill the muslims!)
* The megachurches (God told me to tell you to GIVE ME MONEY!)
* etc.

[iceman_1960]

If they had tried this stuff with Muhammad instead of Jesus there"d be about 100 people dead by now.