#10. Weird Memorabilia
Jan 10th by Jon
The other day I got a catalog from a Christian book store chain promoting their new Easter products. One of the items you could buy was a “crown of thorns.” For a mere $49.95 you could own a crown for your desk? Your mantle? Where do you properly store/display a crown of thorns? Do you think the Roman soldiers that made it at the time said to each other, “You know, some day this is going to make a really sweet paper weight.” But what can I say, when it comes to Easter and Christmas but shut your mouth not Halloween, we love us some weird memorabilia.
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A Christian bookstore was my first job. I could write pages and pages of things like this that people bought all the time! I don’t blame the bookstores for carrying them. I blame the people for buying them.
I blame the Christian bookstores. They suck. Jesus drove the ’sellers’ out of the temple, not the people trying to worship.
I have to say we call all this stuff “Jesus Junk” and some days it makes me a little crazy.
Fifty bucks? That’s insane. I say find a thorn tree (Oh, yes, I did in fact find one) and pull some branches off and make your own for free! My hands look like I got into a fight with a food processor but, by golly, I have my very own handmade crown-o’-thorns. Call it a labour of love. As for displaying it, it just sits up on a shelf.
Wait, what about for Crucifixion reenactments?
But I guess if it is a particularly pointy crown of thorns, it’d be rather dangerous. And $50 definitely is a hefty price to pay for a stage prop…
I remember when Christian bookstores sold books, that was AT LEAST 20 years ago. Now they sell cheaper crap than the stuff you win at carnivals. But, I guess that is why God graced us with Amazon – yeah, they sell other [actually useful] stuff too, but they have…. (wait for it)…. BOOKS!!!
Seriously, working at a Christian bookstore it astounds me how much of this kind of junk people actually buy…I agree with Heidi blame the people who buy it, not the store, if people didn't buy it we wouldn't sell it.
yep, we have a crown of thorns at my house. it comes out and sits on our kitchen table for lent every year, as a reminder of the sacrafice. it's pretty weird. i wonder what non-christian people would say if they came to my house and saw a crown of thorns in the middle of our kitchen table. hmm.
my mom got into making these for people as gifts. her friend accidentaly sat on it and had to go to the emergency room. not kidding.
We need some new wrist bands with WWJB on them. What Would Jesus Buy?
this is not a new development. Take time and read about some of the relics that existed in church history. Can you imagine traveling thousands of miles to touch the toe of a dead saint?