Your Daily Moment of WTF?

[forsyth]

Near where I work, there's a large Family Chrisitan Bookstores. I've not been in it, because I work at a bookstore. But it's on the way I walk from work to a deli a couple stores down from the FCB. So I get to walk past and look at the displays, most of which are generally generic retail displays, with more religious overtones. Which is what they sell, so duh.

But there's this one thing displayed in the window, that makes me go WTF?

It's a replica Crown of Thorns. For $49.95. 12" across.

Double-ewe Tee Eff? No, seriously. Why? What are you going to do with it, wear it for Jesus cosplay? Or is there a larger faction (sect?) out there that fetishizes the pain and suffering and death part of Jesus's story over the "Love, Peace, and Don't be a Dick" parts? You know how sometimes asking the question will give you the answer, especially when Mel Gibson made a big "Pain and Suffering!" flick recently? Yeah.

Still. It's creepy, on so many levels.

Tags: Mindscribbles, Religion