roachboy

as i wait for my anton lavey doll to arrive......(tapping foot on the floor)....

xmas in all its appalling commercial grandeur is the mass marketing of jesus dolls by its nature. i find it kind of funny at one level that there would be any expectation concerning the spiritual potentials of commodityjesus. unless of course some rituals were performed over commodityjesus to imbue it with special powers.
but that would be hoodoo, wouldn't it?
and dont evangelicals reject hoodoo?

i expect that handing out little plastic commodityjesii this time o year will have no evangelical import whatsoever.

what i do expect is that folk who might get commodityjesus and who are not themselves of the judeo-xtian orientation will find in them a fine example of american cloddishness, yet another index as if any was needed of the difficulty that seems endemic of amuricans of a certain persuasion to admit that theirs is not the hegemonic religious reality, that there are many many people who do not believe as they do.

these people of course are among the Fallen who are awaited by Hell simply because they do not believe as the christians do. so perhaps there is some logic in christianland that squares the dispatch of plastic commodityjesii in this realm with the awaiting Hell in the next.

or maybe the logic goes:

harrass them, deluge them and they will submit. saturate them, negate them and they will come around.
demonstrate that combination of insensitivity and oblviousness that makes christianity such an attractive option
reinforce that with plastic commodityjesii and the Fallen will come around.

or maybe the logic goes:

your dog can decapitate the plastic commodityjesus and chew on the plastic commodityjesus head.
no doubt the gnawed plastic commodityjesus head will lay around the floor of for many days.
at some point. spore-like, its superpowers will begin to emanate. Revelation will surely follow and another Nonbeliever will of course bite the dust.

but what it looks like:

in one or another book by the polish journalist kapuscinski, there is a section about private american contributions to famine relief in africa.
among the objects sent were trailers full of left plastic high-heeled shoes and hundreds of thousands of razorblades.
because you never know: someone in a famine might feel it important to totter about on a left high-heeled plastic shoe and if they do that, they will probably want to have a shave.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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