Some Swedish Christians are feeling blue about the country's hottest new jeans, which their designer calls "an active statement against Christianity." The jeans, named "Cheap Monday," sell for $50 a pair and feature a skull with a cross turned upside down on its forehead.
More than 200,000 pairs have been sold since 2004, leaving some leaders in the Christian community shaking their heads. The vicar of one Stockholm church calls the jeans "a deliberate provocation," adding, "No one wants to provoke Jews or Muslims, but it's totally OK to provoke Christians."
Nevertheless, the director of the Church of Sweden's culture department says that while the designer wants to create public opinion against the Christian faith, "I don't think it's much to be horrified about."
2 comments:
Beware the banality of evil.
I don't know who first said that, but I've repeated it often. It is true.
I agree with the vicar you mentioned. Maybe I should try and market some jeans with swastikas on them in Europe. After all, Jews aren't much different from Christians, anyway, right?
--Jacob, who goes to school with Nick
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