Ok, the other day I purchased a batman action figure toy with blue tint wings and the cool shoot em up things that go with. My 6 year old son was having a great time playing and came over to me to show off the toy. A couple of times I was looking at it and thought to myself how for some reason the toy reminded me of a demon, especially with the wings, and started to kind of wonder about these super hero toys being sold. I didn't say anything but a few minutes lator my son (who accepted Christ when he was 41/2) came up to me and said, "Mom, doesn't this toy look like a demon? It's just wrong, I don't want to have this toy because it's actually a demon. It's just wrong."!
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It's this kind of brainwashing shit that really burns my ass. I'll bet the many pictures of Jesus hanging in their house are the "caucasian-christ" variety. Of course it begs the question, is the Batman figure the "evil-looking" Tim Burton type? or the campy, harmless, pot-bellied, fun-loving Adam West type? Can somebody grab my "anti dumbass spray" from my belt?
Are the wings on demons and angels just there for decoration? Because, demons and angels are supposed to be all incorporeal and shit. Which means they can fly by using their thoughts, so they don't necesarily NEED wings.
If I were a demon, I would want wings like a dragonfly. I think if I were an angel, I would want wings more like a fairy.
Of course, I Believe fails to realise that Bruce Wayne delibrately chose his Bat-Costume, to inspire both fear & terror in the Criminals of Gotham City, & as such, is delibrately designed to look Demonic...
Incedentally, Batman is not a superhero, but rather a very, very, rich vigilante, but I suspect that little distinction has passed her right by...
If a mere Batman figure can make this dickhead think a piece of plastic is actually a demon, I daren't imagine what his reaction would be to his son playing with a McFarlane Toys Spawn action figure. His head would explode, "Scanners"-style, presumably.
*dials phone *
'Hello, is that Forbidden Planet? Yes, I'd like to order one of your Spawn figures, please. The scariest one you have. Right, and please send it to this address...'
>:D
No, your child did not "[accept] Christ when he was 41/2".
He was repeating what he was told to please Mommy and Daddy.
Most decent churches expect a child to be roughly middle school aged at least before they'll consider letting him or her "accept Jesus".
First off you gotta love any belief-system that supports the idea that 2 fully grown gay adults can't decide to get married but a 4.5-year-old can "choose" to accept Jesus Christ. You mean to tell me there's a physical resemblance between the artistic renderings of a fictitious comic book character that doesn't exist in real life and a fictitious evil religious character that doesn't exist in real life? No freakin' way! Could it be that the artists who created Batman used an aesthetic based somewhat on the anatomy of bats, and the artists who created "demons" did too?
Batman isn't the demon, Etrigan is!
Gone, gone the form of man!
Behold, he demon, Etrigan!
Yet somehow they could all look at Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and the like and feel a warm fuzzy trust.
The modern dipiction of demons is usually heavily dependant on Gargoyles and many other ancient pagan ideas, so yeah, I guess fundies would be scared of them. They're scared of EVERYTHING really.
It's interesting too, in most of these "evil toys" stories that they never ask Jesus if the toy is suspect. I mean, they claim they're talking to him all the time but it never occurs to them to ask his advice, they'll take some foaming at the mouth over the top preachers freak-out about such things as gospel but hardly ever go "Hey, Jesus, is this toy evil?"
Are you afraid of looking like an idiot in front of your savior?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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