Product Description
Blessed are the shopping list scrawlers and the test takers when their pencils are topped with one of these replicas of Jesus. Handsomely detailed with a red robe and arms outstretched in blessing or prayer. Five 1-1/4 inch tall, soft vinyl Jesuses on each illustrated blistercard.
Yes, Sir. I am sick of this stuff, too.
(By the way: I’m a constant reader / visitor from Germany.)
Keep on posting! Thanks.
Plea by Günter J. Matthia — February 26, 2008 @ 11:22 am
“…soft vinyl Jesuses…”
Sadly, a pretty good description of much of American evangelicalism today, isn’t it?
Plea by Wes Kenney — February 26, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Wes Kenney reacted to the same line that hit me. Can we work that into a worship chorus?
Well, at least it answers once and for all how many Jesuses fit on the head of a pencil. Do they have an angelic version too?
Plea by Bibliosteve — February 26, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Yet? I didn’t realize there was a lag time. I was sick of it from the word go.
Plea by April — February 26, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
My friends gave me these as a “going to bible college” gift. We’re all hoping for some blessed exams!
Plea by Daniel — February 26, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Probably not as sick of it as Jesus is.
Plea by Lee Shelton IV — February 26, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
If His vinyl posture is so ambiguous as to indicate either “blessing or prayer,” how do we know His arms aren’t outstretched in wrath?
Plea by Jeffrey J. Stables — February 26, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
“yet”?!?!?
Pencil topper? Does it erase sin? No? Only the real Jesus for me, please.
Plea by Jim Pemberton — February 26, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
Was Kenny Loggins the model for this product?
Plea by ZacharyMartinGlass — February 26, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Notre Dame’s touchdown Jesus comes to mind.
Plea by bobalooey — February 26, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
Looks to me like he’s throwing up his arms saying, “what do I need to do to get through to these people?”
Plea by Rodney Olsen — February 26, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
I saw this on another site, and they refer to this stuff as Je$u$ Junk….I think they have it right.
I don’t know what it is about the American culture that affects it’s “spirituality”. If plastic trinkets represents their faith, it makes one wonder if the faith is plastic.
And if this is an effective witness, imagine the unsaved co workers and students wanting heaven just because of these erasers!
Ugh!
Plea by Carol — February 26, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
They were probably made in China with dangerous levels of lead in the paint. And what? Only 5 per package and not a “complete” set of 7!
Plea by Chuck Thomas — February 26, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
I think Wes Kenney said it all. And by the way, it applies to the slightly more apathetic version - Canadian evangelicalism. It’s become all about “me” and what “I” think is cute. The pencil toppers are simply a reflection of what we think about Jesus. The pencil toppers did not usher this mentality in. The mentality of the Laodicean/North American church brought in the gimmicks. I can’t believe I’m saying this - but I hope God brings refinement and persecution to the North American church.
Plea by Brandt — February 26, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
“soft vinyl Jesuses” is the name of the new Donald Miller book
Plea by chumpy — February 27, 2008 @ 12:12 am
Have any of you ever heard of the band Atomic Opera? Check out their song “Jesus Junk.”
http://atomicopera.com/Gospel-credits.html#anchor1642268
Plea by Michael A. Vickers — February 27, 2008 @ 7:27 am
Obviously, they haven’t read the book: No More Plastic Jesus
Plea by Michael Hollinger — February 27, 2008 @ 8:51 am
Small idol for the write pencil, therefore so hyper nonsense out of the mind.
Plea by Brent — February 27, 2008 @ 9:01 am
why o why hadn’t I brought this to my last Exam?
Plea by Ernesto — February 27, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
Incidentally, he looks to me like he’s helping someone back a truck up to the door:
“Keep coming, keep coming, left a little, that’s good…”
:-)
Plea by Wes Kenney — February 27, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
Does anyone know what burning vinyl smells like?
This appears to be the perfect opportunity to furnish that lack of knowledge…
Plea by Grant — February 27, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
Michael Card once sang, “Was it for this you came and died, a once a week observance where we coldly mouth your words?”
The same question could be asked about this, though this makes cold observance look downright pious. What a far cry from the Jesus in Colossians 1.
Even more ironic is that some of the people who buy this stuff decry the way the likes of liberal theology and the Jesus Seminar deny the deity and diminish the significance of Christ.
Plea by Bibliosteve — February 27, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
He looks more like Travis Tritt than Jesus.
Plea by Fred B — February 27, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Jesus erases away my sin and I am happy all the day.
Plea by Pat McGee — February 27, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
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