In my opinion there aren’t many more offensive “Christian” t-shirts than this one.  I’ve seen it before and literally thought about it for hours after I saw it for the first time.  As if all of the world’s problems just vanish before our eyes the second we accept Christ.

There’s no more hunger, no more death, no more pain, no more sin, no more struggle and I’ve got the Staples rip-off t-shirt to prove it.

This post is a response to a Tweet with this shirt on it that, at least on my end, originated today from Charlie Lowell then I re-Tweeted it, and so forth.  Here’s what it said along with the picture of the shirt.  “Wow, what a grave insult to anyone who desires to truly follow Christ.” -@cdlowell Now that it’s become sort of a “conversation” I thought I’d bring that conversation here to see what you guy think.

Now, I understand the “idea” behind this ridiculous product, but I’d love for the guy who came up with this to take a trip to any number of third world countries and sit down with a mother and her starving baby and give his ‘pitch’.  Or maybe a part of the world where Christians are forced to sneak around because their faith will get them killed.  Maybe the conversation would go something like this:

“See, there’s this store in America that sells office products and they came up with this commercial.  People that are having a hard time ordering paper can just push this button and then paper shows up in their office and their boss loves them and all their problems go away.  It’s sort of like that but with Jesus…. and you’re the slacker office worker… only you’re child is starving.. or you’ll be shot if someone catches you praying.  But if you accept Jesus all that goes away… except for the part where your kids need food to survive or you’re killed for what you believe.  Get it?  We’ll sell hundreds!!”

Maybe I’m way off, but this shirt has always bothered me.  And I’m sure I’m just scratching the surface of the issues with this shirt but I’d love to know what you think.

Ready?  Go.