Cross Fashion

Crosses have always been a popular item of jewelry.  Increasingly worn for fashion rather than religious reasons.

Cross, nice tights, even nicer shoes

Look carefully - he is wearing a cross too.

Cross cuff-link, very nice tights, very, very nice shoes

However, Joy of Tights has noticed crosses appearing on other items of fashion.

Like skirts - good to see those crosses upside down,....

... and of course tights.

Like the shoes.

Now as a card carrying, bible burning, pornography posting, skepticism promoting Satanist I think this is a good thing.  Why? You might ask.  Shouldn't I want to see the sign of the cross erased from the Earth?

She has her cross the right way up.

Well while praying that Satan might cause all crosses to spontaneously combust, I am pleased the see the cross trivialized as a mere fashion symbol.

Can you take a religious symbol seriously when it is suck to a girl's arse?

But why, other than Satanist hatred, do I object to the sign of the cross so much?  Well I think hatred is its own justification.

Cross tights

But there is a case for objecting to the symbol of the cross on the basis of the Christian theory (doctrine) it stands for.  Here are the bones of the theory:

• God wants to forgive human beings (traditionally it was only men of course).  [This to most people does not sound unreasonable.  Personally if a man sins against you I say "Squash his balls", but I may be morally defective. So lets assume this first point is reasonable].

• God cannot forgive because someone must be punished.  [Now it starts to get contradictory.  If God wants punishment he cannot really want to forgive].

• So God picks on Jesus to take the punishment.  [This is weird.  Sarah wants to forgive Alison, so she kicks the crap out of Ken, and then is able to forgive Alison   Doesn't seem fair on poor old Ken who was just minding his own business.  I ignore the point that Ken is a man so deserves to have the crap kicked out of him, if it makes the argument easier to understand substitute Natalie for Ken]

You think Jesus was a good bloke, so why did God torture him?

• BUT.... is OK since Jesus is no ordinary bloke but God Himself.  [Is the Almighty some kind of masochist who would enjoy bondage games?]

If God were a woman, which the Christian novel "The Shack" suggests he is, would he enjoy bondage?

•  God actually doesn't want to forgive everyone.  Despite having gone to all this trouble.  Here is the Scriptural evidence: "And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false," (2 Thess. 2:11) or "just as it is written, 'God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, down to this very day,'" (Romans. 11:8).

I didn't make it up sisters - it is all in the good book.

Girls, if you are damned anyway, you might as well have fun together.

It might not be so bad if this "cross-centric" doctrine didn't have such negative effects.

• It makes Christian's thrust it down the throats of the rest of us

Just think how much extra time you would have if you didn't need to pray for the salvation of the world?

• It upsets sensitive Christians themselves.  Now it takes a lot for me to be sympathetic to Christians.  But just imagine the poor Christian tortured day and night with the thought that their family and friends are going to hell.

Christians if you didn't think your friends were going to hell [....BTW isn't Lucifer a sexy beast...]...

.... you could enjoy your singsongs much more

• Although I can see no logical link, Christians who go on about the cross or also homophobic and intolerant.  

No kissing please girls.

So how does fashion trivialize the cross?

(1) By reducing the cross to just one more pattern on a pair of tights or leggings.

This is no different to ....

...this.....

... or this?

(2a) By allowing greater possibilities for the desecration of the symbol. 

It may be annoying to get a ladder on a night out....

....but would a ladder it these be sacrilege?

Then there is disposing of your tights.  Like the people that wear them, tights wear out and are only fit for burying or incineration.  Should a holy symbol be buried in a hole in the ground with other decaying crap or vaporized in an incinerator?  Personally I like the thought of burning crosses.

(2b) Now the second way your fashion may desecrate the holy symbol is a little more..... rude.  Let's say you are wearing a pair of sexy tights with a cross motif.

Well you start having some fun with your boyfriend.  You start stimulating him.  Because he has no self control (as they often haven't), he grunts with pleasure, and before you know it, the cross motif on your tights is covered in man gunk.  RESULT.

Step away from the cross