You are nuts! do you really think the corporate leaders of the barbie company are trying to get young girls to practice witchcraft. My mother is pagan and i'm as christian as jesus was! I don' t have a problem with witchcraft. Most of its users use the power for good and not for evil! My mother also doesn't go around telling people to practice witchcraft. before you criticize its users you should find out more about other religions!
Hey Avenger21 welcome to CF! Have fun but this "You are nuts!" is a little rude, now if you don't agree then just say you don't agree, but lets not fall into name calling (at least not until you've been here for a while! ) Anyway welcome and be blessed!
tulc
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There are thousands of Christian toys out there, why can't we have toys for our children that identify with our religion?
If you don't like it... don't buy it. Apparently there's enough of the buying public out there that doesn't have a problem with it that Mattel thinks it won't hurt sales and will make a profit. Despite what you choose to believe it's not hurting anyone, especially not you if you exercise your right not to buy it.
__________________ Havoc
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" -- Quentin Crisp
May I just add, as a final note from me on this I think, that toys are toys? They are toys. There are millions and millions out there. Most of them, we've never even heard of. Half of them we'd probably say are stupid. Barbie is stupid. Her whole line of dolls (wether you love 'em or hate 'em) serve no real purpose. They're not going to be a source of religious revolution in children. Ever. To even think such a think denotes (to me) a total lack of perspective.
If the world is finding time to debate the spiritual impact of Barbie (and only one doll in a line that streches probably around the globe several times if we bothered to line them up) then we simply (myself included) have way too much time on our hands.
__________________ Not all those who wander are lost. -- JRR Tolkien
You are nuts! do you really think the corporate leaders of the barbie company are trying to get young girls to practice witchcraft. My mother is pagan and i'm as christian as jesus was! I don' t have a problem with witchcraft. Most of its users use the power for good and not for evil! My mother also doesn't go around telling people to practice witchcraft. before you criticize its users you should find out more about other religions!
Hmmmm - Jesus had a problem with witchcraft!
GALATIONS 5:19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; [20] idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions [21] and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
That said, Welcome to CF!
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Jesus never mentioned Witchcraft. Neither does your Bible until King James put it in there.
__________________ Havoc
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" -- Quentin Crisp
Except this doll has nothing to do with real witchcraft.
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
There are thousands of Christian toys out there, why can't we have toys for our children that identify with our religion?
If you don't like it... don't buy it. Apparently there's enough of the buying public out there that doesn't have a problem with it that Mattel thinks it won't hurt sales and will make a profit. Despite what you choose to believe it's not hurting anyone, especially not you if you exercise your right not to buy it.
1000's of Christian toys???? Can you give me an example please?
Sure, when my son was little he had a toy nativity set. It was put out by Avon, I think. Oh, he also had the tupperware Noah's ark toy set. That is two off the top of my head.
__________________ Imagine there's no heaven ~ It's easy if you try ~ No hell below us ~ Above us only sky ~ Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there's no countries ~ It isnt hard to do ~ Nothing to kill or die for ~No religion too ~ Imagine all the people living life in peace. Imagine no possesions ~ I wonder if you can ~ Noneed for greed or hunger ~ A brotherhood of man ~ Imagine all the people sharing all the world. …I hope some day you'll join us ~ and the world will live as one. --John Lennon
) Anyway welcome and be blessed!
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