In one of those bizarre ironies that are too weird to make up, my brother-in-law Jeremy is being forced to leave his job at a christian bookstore over his religious beliefs. I kid you not. Jeremy is a devout christian, a "true-believer" if I've ever met one, and he takes his relationship with God very seriously. It appears, however, that his (soon to be former) employers have somewhat different priorities.
The issue, it seems, is the flogging of credit cards emblazoned with the image of Jesus. His bosses want all their employees to be aggressively pushing this with every transaction. However Jeremy has a strong moral conviction that it's wrong to use Jesus' name in this way to make a quick buck. (Apparently he think that it's wrong to profit from the prophet!) Personally, I don't have quite such a strong view on this, but then again I'm not much of a christian either. I do think the notion of pushing a "Jesus Visa" as incredibly crass, and I would be frankly embarrassed to push such tacky crap. It does make a nice symbol for the Republican right though: the evangelical "God Squad" and money minded corporate America melding together in a fantastic morsel of poor taste.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment