Singapore Snafu Over Jesus Branded Cosmetics

Catholics in Singapore are getting worked up over a line of Jesus branded cosmetics on the shelves of British retailer Topshop.  Evidently it’s in poor taste to slap Jesus’ image onto a product and sell it at retail.

The self-righteous protests against using Jesus on something as worldly and frivolous as cosmetics are by far the best part of the whole ordeal:

“Why would anyone use religious figures to promote vanity products? It’s very disrespectful and distasteful.”

Sit back for a moment and enjoy the delicious irony of that statement.  This is coming from a religious organization that has gotten rich over the years by demanding 10% of parishioners income to get in good with Jesus, regularly charged credulous believers to see holy “artifacts” on display in the church, and that famously caused the greatest schism in Christian history, the protestant reformation, because they were selling plenary indulgences to families that were terrified their dead loved ones were rotting in limbo or hell.

Putting Jesus’ face on some lip stick and body cream really doesn’t seem so bad when it’s compared to a worldwide extortion racket where they sent dead loved ones to hell for all eternity if the family didn’t pay up.

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