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December 30, 2005

Nothing Gets Between Me and My Emperor Neros

Jeans with an anti-Christian logo are apparently all the rage in Sweden. Cheap Monday Jeans, which sell for $50 U.S., sport a skull with a cross turned upside down on its forehead. While some may be tempted to laugh this off as another Christian "hissy fit" (like the anti-Abercrombie campaign), the logo's designer is quite forthcoming with his intentions in the Cheap Monday design: "It is an active statement against Christianity," Bjorn Atldax told the Associated Press. "I'm not a Satanist myself, but I have a great dislike for organized religion."

However, most Swedes, including the Swedish Lutheran Church, are shrugging off the controversy as a marketing ploy. There are plans to export Cheap Monday jeans to the rest of Europe and the United States.

Posted by David Darlington at December 30, 2005 09:20 PM

Comments

I presume they will do well in trendy botiques for a couple months, but then the fad will wear off and they will disappear...
However, I suspect Walmart will not decide to carry the brand...
;-)
You know, after Katrina I noted dozens of churches who helped those stranded...and as a missionary, most of the rural health care was funded by churches. Yet anti Christian bigotry seems to be "in"...Yes, I despise Falwell and his ilk...but why does the press ask him for his moronic remarks, but not someone like Bishop Chaput? Maybe they are afraid of inteligence in a Christian, especially a "minority" Catholic Christian?

Posted by: boinkie at January 1, 2006 05:13 PM | permalink

What is it with those northern countries? The Swedes decide to make these jeans, the Danes are in trouble for caricaturing Mohammed.... Maybe the lack of sustained sunlight is responsible.

Posted by: lawyerchik1 at January 5, 2006 08:42 AM | permalink

Yeah it might e the lack of sunlight
Or maybe we are right, maybe Christians and muslims are taking religion way to serious. In the northern countries we have homuor. Religious people is the easiest to provoke and has always been. I believe the victims of hurricanes and other catastrophies shouldnt ask god for help, they should ask for other people to help. I think what they feel when they pray for someone is their own mental power, and I think that might work. I think the bible and the koran would work just fine if you left out god from it, because whoever came up with it also came up with the greatest rules for thegreatest game of all time: life.

Im glad christians are better at protesting against things. I would be very suprised if catholics all over the world started burning embassys for a symbol.

I think the designer threw the cross on there, and when people started fussin. She pulled - Im active against christianity. I the cross was the other way around would it be better or would that be a dead christian.

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Ps. all the fanatics seem to be locatad in the us,

Posted by: Sven at February 6, 2006 08:43 PM | permalink

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