SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Want to use Jesus hand cream? Well, you can’t anymore. At least not in Singapore.
A Singapore-based retailer pulled a line of cheeky Jesus branded cosmetics from its shelves after complaints from irate Catholics, the local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The cosmetics, called "Lookin’ Good for Jesus", is made by American makeup company Blue Q. It was sold in three Topshop outlets in Singapore.
Wing Tai Holdings, which manages the Topshop brand in the city-state, pulled the items off its shelves late last month after some customers complained, the Straits Times newspaper reported.
"We don’t want to offend our customers," a company spokesman was quoted by the paper as saying.
Reuters could not get a comment from Wing Tai as its offices were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
…Some of the products sold include, a "virtuous vanilla" lip balm, hand and body cream and a mirrored Jesus statuette. They feature a drawing of Jesus flanked by two adoring women and carry slogans such as "Get tight with Christ", "Get His Attention" and "Redeem Your Reputation and More".
Here a product line that wasn’t well thought out. The Jesus "Show me the money" wallet is certainly one of the strangest product combinations I have ever seen.
But Lookin’ good for Jesus does not exactly fit "But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” Though if you really want to be "Lookin’ good for Jesus" then the confessional is the perfect beauty salon. Even better in the confessional you don’t need Jesus Bubble Bath to wash away your sins.
Reuters has a slideshow of the odd products.
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“Look good for Jesus” does make good sense in light of the Ash Wednesday Gospel reading.
I actually saw that line of products this past Christmas in a Sacramento store. Imagine if a group of Catholics rose up and did the same thing as the group in the Phillipines.
Okay, I suppose this is really terrible, but my first reaction to the picture of the Jesus Bubble Bath was, “What a cool-looking container!” Then when I saw it was bubble bath and saw Jesus with the towel over his arm, I smirked and thought of the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday.
I feel properly ashamed of myself now.
It brings to mind the teaching that you should be both inwardly and outwardly composed while in Mass. While it’s true that one’s interior disposition carries a lot of weight, one should also dress decently and respectably without being ostentatious unless drastic circumstances prevent it. So lookin’ good for Jesus is a good concept in itself, but I’ll do it on my own, without a commercial product like this to help me, thank you very much.
I was thinking cleanliness is next to godliness. I am a homeschooler and honestly I probably would have bought those tacky items.
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