The National Labor Committee reported today that Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity Church and the Association for Christian Retail (estimated to be worth $4.63 billion) use godless, communist Chinese sweatshops where young women are kept in slave-like conditions to make enough crucifixes to get to market in time for Christmas.
You know, it’s really difficult for a godless blogger like myself to decide which Jesus story to allude to here. Should we go with the turning over the money-changing tables? The ones in which he urges charity (feed the hungry, take care of the sick, etc.) ? The one where he’s supposedly on some cross dying for everyone’s sins? Or the one where he urges mega-churches of the future to seek out and exploit people living under totalitarian conditions and poverty for profit? I think that one was in Job.
At least one convert may have been made through this, though: The report states that “After being forced to work a 19-hour shift, one worker cried out, ‘Jesus, take pity on me! I’m going to die of exhaustion.’”
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This does bring us to the following endorsement, though:
AdBusters: Buy Nothing Day | Buy Nothing Christmas
Also: Documentary about crazy pretend minister’s anti-shopping sermon tour:
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