{"id":1604,"date":"2007-08-01T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/08\/01\/buddy-christ-vs-kali-with-kung-fu-grips-coming-to-a-wal-mart-near-you\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T17:07:00","slug":"buddy-christ-vs-kali-with-kung-fu-grips-coming-to-a-wal-mart-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/08\/01\/buddy-christ-vs-kali-with-kung-fu-grips-coming-to-a-wal-mart-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Christ vs. Kali (With Kung Fu Grips): Coming to a Wal-Mart Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning in mid-August roughly 425 Wal-Mart stores will be selling a faith-based toy line in their preschool aisle.  <\/span>The line includes Ester, Moses, Noah, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and more.  <\/span>This is being billed as the first time Wal-Mart has offered a full line of faith-based toys.  <\/span>For a thorough article, click here<\/a>.
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<\/span>Okay, can we quit saying faith-based people?  <\/span>What you mean to say is Christian toys.  <\/span>If I can’t buy a Kali action figure with kung fu grips, your line isn’t faith-based, it’s Judeo Christian based.  <\/span>A visit to one2believe’s, the company making the toys, website makes the Christ in faith-based pretty darn evident.  <\/span>To see the whole line of toys, click here<\/a>.
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<\/span>What my readers may find amusing is that I don’t actually have a problem with Wal-Mart selling these.  <\/span>I mean, why not?  <\/span>My problem will be when I find out they WON’T carry my Kali action figure.  <\/span>I’m telling you, I could make some serious money with a Kali action figure!  <\/span>My other problem is that the same people that are okay with little Billy learning about Jesus by chewing and drooling on his plastic head probably weren’t okay with this<\/a>.  <\/span>I love Buddy Christ.  <\/span>I love the movie “Dogma”.  <\/span>For that matter, I love Kevin Smith.  <\/span>Where was I?  <\/span>Oh yes, outrage and such.
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<\/span>I believe Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, made a fun, bitchy, and true comment in the Canada.com story.  <\/span>“Isn’t religion the one who is always claiming that everybody is so materialistic?  <\/span>And now we’re marketing Jesus dolls.”  <\/span>Johnson showed amazing restraint since in that same article one2believe’s founder David Socha said, “What’s nice is that they’re real as opposed to other superheroes that are out there.”  <\/span>I can’t believe the president of American Atheists didn’t take the obvious shot there.  <\/span>Maybe she didn’t know he said it.  <\/span>Let me help her out here.  <\/span>Um, real?  <\/span>To an Atheist, um, not real.  <\/span>To a Hindu, not real.  <\/span>To a Buddhist, not real.  <\/span>To a Pagan, Wiccan, or Druid, not real.  <\/span>Congrats there Socha, they’re real only to those who use the Old and\/or New Testament of the Bible.
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<\/span>So here’s the deal Wal-Mart.  <\/span>I don’t mind you carrying “faith-based” toys, but if I find out you’re opting not to carry other “faith-based” toys, or that your salespeople are ramming them down customers throats in an attempt to “spread the word”, I’ll be back.  <\/span>And when I come back, it won’t be the Buddy Christ, it will be Kali (with kung fu grips!).
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