from the Jesus and Barbie shall not fornicate dept.
The fundies have managed to pressure Toys for Tots into accepting 4000 of their Jesus dolls. Cause this is just what every poor kid dreams of getting on Christmas morning! But wait there’s more! It’s a talking Jesus doll complete with 6 verses of scripture like “John 3:3 - I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
Part of me thinks we should take up donations and buy 4000 Charles Darwin dolls and give them to Toys for Tots just to piss off the fundies. But it’s not about that. It’s about the 4000 kids who are going to wake up Christmas morning hoping for a new basketball or hula hoop and instead unwrap a sermon. It’s about those parents who had no other way to give their children a Christmas and turned to Toys for Tots for help. I can only hope that Toys for Tots is doing the safe thing and accepting these things just to store them in a back room somewhere until they can toss them out.
On the other hand, imagine all the blasphemous fun you could have with one of these.
Originally from Pandagon, and definitely read Amanda’s take on it and other works of christian “charity” from yesterday.
Yes, those kids will feel so loved when they unwrap that shitty doll. Maybe when they see that shining example of Christian love, they will grow up to be atheists.
Unbelievable. But maybe it’ll turn out better than letting the fundies start that whole “war against Christmas” nonsense again.
If Muslims in this country were as demanding as the fundies, we would be seeing an equal number of Muhammad dolls forced onto Toys for Tots. Then there are the Hindus…
And you can just imagine the uproar if one of those people who donated the Jesus dolls got a Vishnu doll from Toys for Tots.
I have been thinking about this and discussing it with my husband and we think it’s very possible that the company that produced these dolls figured out that they would be unsellable for various reasons (the graven image problem for some, kids being kids and creating games & situations for the dolls that might make adults uncomfortable, i.e. treating Talking Jesus like a TOY, etc.) They may have decided to cut their losses and dump the dolls on an unwitting charity in November when said charity would be hard pressed to be able to do anything about it. So, the company’s losses are minmized because they can write the dolls off on their taxes.
I can’t fault Toys for Tots; they’ve been put in an untenable position at the worst possible time for them.
I’ve heard other people say that twincats. I think it is probably the most likely case.
After having done a bit of research, I found that the Talking Jesus dolls have been on the market (internet sales only) since summer 2005 and are all still available at One2Believe.com. The entire line includes Jesus, Mary, David, Moses and Esther (yeah, they all talk.)
If I am reading the linked article right, it’s only the Jesus dolls that are being “donated.” Seeing as Jesus is the only deity in the line, and the fact that the dolls were originally slated to sell for $24.95 and now sell for $19.99, I think I can stand by my somewhat cynical opinion that this is an opportunistic company taking advantage of a hapless charity.