Face-Off….

The Slacktavist is one of my favourite US bloggers. Besides doing a sharp and often hilarious weekly takedown of the excreably-written – yet unfathomably popular – Left Behind books, he often comes up with gems like this:

Early next month, 425 Wal-Mart stores nationwide will begin carrying faith-based toys from One2believe that target parents who would rather that their kids play with a Samson action figure than a Spider-Man action figure. …
Because a costumed crime-fighter just isn’t as much fun as an ancient terrorist and the inventor of the suicide bomb. Plus the Spidey figure doesn’t come with gouge-able eyesockets.
The toys, including a 12-inch talking Jesus doll and 14-inch Samson or Goliath action figures — target pre-schoolers to 12-year-olds. …
Hmm. Goliath was said to be nine feet tall. If Jesus is 6/7 as tall, that would put him at, let’s see, about 7′ 7″. That seems a bit off.
On the plus side, I was worried when I saw that the talking Jesus doll was endorsed by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, but it turns out it says mainly things like “Love your neighbor as yourself” and not “Spare the rod and spoil the child” (or “Kill all the bad people and keep your family safe”).

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  1. I’m having great fun, reading Slacktivist’s ‘Left Behind’ posts. Have you read the book, Val? You should; it’s hilarious. I read it a few years ago.

    I’m quite taken with this, from Slacktivist:-

    ” He was with people who cared about him. This was his family. He was really, really glad to see them, and it appeared the feeling was mutual.

    That second “really” is what sets Jerry Jenkins apart as a novelist. Passages like this make one grateful that he is sharing this gift with others. You, too, can sign up for his “Christian Writers Guild” and you can learn to be a really, really good writer.”

    Perhaps there’s hope for me in publishing a novel – at least there might be, if I have some arbitrary Xian theme and tout it to the Xian press.