The ghetto of Christian commercialism has come up with another terrible idea — twitter knockoff t-shirts!
Sad to say, I might have bought something like that 15 years ago and thought it was very cool. There’s nothing like the smug feeling that you’re a walking billboard for Jesus.
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I am like the asshole version of you fifteen years ago. I like the smug feeling I get when I draw doubletakes with my cool ‘Campus Crusade for Cthulu’ shirt.
Lots of people see the shirt, begin to smile, and then snap their head around in a doubletake. This is often followed by disapproving frowns. I feed on disapproval, so this only energizes me.
I get the same reaction with my ‘Evolution Kills’ shirt.
I get these looks from the vegetarians I work with (just as bad as religious fundies) when I wear my “animals taste good” t-shirt.
Mmmm…roasted dead cow.
Hey! What’s the old indian word for bad hunter? Vegetarian.
The only meat I eat is fish, so I like to call myself a “veg-aquarium”!
I’d block that guy
I would *love* for Twitter to sue whoever made that t-shirt.
Twitter doesn’t own the bird and tree motif.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/twitter-designe/
Other companies have sourced this design also, for about $15. Cheep. Um. Cheap.
For some reason, they allow you to download their logo to Photoshop and Illustrator also:
http://twitter.com/about#about
That would be just the word “twitter” in those bubble letters, and to a program where you can modify it if you like.
Doesn’t look like any lawsuits are forthcoming, then.
What does it say? I can’t get a big enough image to read it.
It says “follower of jesus” then some bible verse in the back.
Yeah, it was the verse I wanted to see. Now I’ll probably die not knowing. Somehow, I’ve got to pick up and move on, though. :)
Thats the first christian shirt I ever could see myself wearing. People always tried to get me them as gifts when I was growing up and I never wore them. I believed in God plenty at the time, but those shirts were always so lame.
Yeah. A lot of that stuff is kind of schmaltzy and lame. Like most of the “popular” christian music.
I think that the gospels could be even funnier in tweets:
wntd figs 4 lunch 2day, tree had nun, cursed it.
mary gave pedicure, feet smell nice now.
now i know 4 sure judas needs a tic-tac.
no updates 4 three days, wll rtrn on sun.
Oh man that would be hilarious. Someone should do that.
Maybe I can get to work on that in my spare time.
There’s already a LOLcat Bible, which I think has been posted here before:
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
I just looked and SOMEHOW jesus isn’t on twitter yet, I thought he was supposed to be everywhere on account of the whole god thing. There is no twitter.com/jesus.
But it can’t be registered unfortunately. :(
Anyone tried to register “Yeshua Ben Joseph”?
http://twitter.com/Jesus_Christ
Nitwits labeling themselves doesn’t seem like such a negative thing to me. This tells me not only are they a Christian, but that it is so far up on the list of things they’ll want to talk about, they spent money on a shirt, so that I know to steer clear.
In parentheses, it should say (I’m a sheep).
They do like the 23 Psalms after all. That could be the scripture they tack on the shirt. I believe thats what you call synergy.
ya can laugh all you want about such, but when the final rapture comes and you see Jesus Christ, you’ll beg and beg to take you with HIM, but it’ll be TOO LATE…..whether you believe in HIM or NOT, when that day, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND CONFESS WITH THEIR TONGUES JESUS CHRIST IS LORD…..
I fear my LORD ’cause I don’t wanna be in HIS WRATH and burn in hell for eternity.
This is sarcasm. Right?
I’m not that worried about it.
I’m sorry, but that comment is over 140 characters, therefore not tweetable.
syrie do you often fantasize about the death and torture of other people? That seems so “Christian”. Good for you.
So … You fear this just, loving person?
Hell, your parents are probably better than that … Then again, if you were raised by Christians I suppose you might fear them too.
A coherent response from this…person is highly unlikely.
Since t-shirts came up, I will share one of my favorite sites, but advanced warning…the easily offended should not bother.
http://www.tshirthell.com/hell.shtml
PMSL! http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/products/a1280/a1280_bm.gif
SO un pc. Love it. Especially “follow me on twitter, stalk me on facebook.”
A few weeks ago I saw people runnig around with white T-shirts with jezus saves and acting wierd. You have to know that here in europe, people lock you up for this since they think you have some mental disorder.
Funny is that these Jezues people acted exactly like the gay people would in a gay parade. The same gaze, the same walks,…
I have a recommendation for a Christian t-shirt, but I’m not sure how popular it’d be:
“McJesus: over a billion saved”
Personally, I think the t-shirt idea is kind of cute. I wouldn’t wear it of course (after all, lying is a sin), but I wouldn’t take too much offense if I saw something like this. I wish I knew what the verse said, though… then I might be able to take offense, which would be incredibly satisfying.
This site has a lot of corporate logo-style t-shirts about jesus:
http://www.onlinechristianshopper.com/
Hope Christian T-shirt
(Yeah, that HOPE.
Jesus died for MySpace in heaven
Stay out of Hell Free
Like the Monopoly card
It was You-Who he died for
Other spoofs include Staples, Facebook, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Mountain Dew, Sunkist, a nutrition label, American Idol, Heroes, Organ Donation, and Recycling. as well as some snap-worthy sloganeering, such as “That’s what He Said,” and “Best Weekend Ever.”
It’s quite ridiculous to see. Whatever makes the kids feel like they fit in, or something.
it’s kinda like a comfy blanket. damn if that blanket isn’t extremely comfy though.
You know I saw a bunch of these kinds of t-shirts years ago in some mall with ‘Jesus’ in place of the Reese’s Cup logo or the You-Tube logo, and at first I just shook my head and thought it was terrible.
But the more I thought about it the more I liked it. I mean its essentially getting an entire subset of Christians to commit blasphemy. I thought it was brilliant, they reduced their own god to the shallowness of a corporate logo. Anyone who wears those shirts would prove that their religion was no more powerful than some mediocre branding enterprise. I love it when Christians popularize and merchandise their religion, it makes it so much easier to dismiss.
How seriously can you take the moral condemnations of a person who deliberately blurs the line between their god and a candy bar? If I saw someone wearing one of those I might just say “That’s the best goddamn t-shirt I have ever seen.” Then I get to have a real fun conversation with some pop-culture christian about blasphemy.
um.. there’s nothing wrong with the shirt. I personally think it’s very creative and I like it so I’m going to buy 2. If it were a shirt that said follower of satan or something perverted yall would have no issues with it but as soon as someone says Jesus yall get offended. It’s not that deep. If someone want’s to acknowledge thier Lord and Savior then let them. You’re not wearing the shirt and you sure didn’t pay for it so if you don’t like it, that’s just too bad. Don’t look at it. Go buy a shirt that you stand for and call it a day.
“Creative” – I do not think this means what you think it means.
I have never seen a single creative religious meme, advert or item of clothing. They all just rip off somebody else’s creativity and put a Jesus twist on it. That isn’t creativity.
Is too.