You have to wonder what makes people tick sometimes.
If you read yesterday morning’s London’s freebie City newspaper CityA.M., you’ll know what I mean.
There was a little story tucked away on page 10 about Top Shop in the Philippines. It appears that Top Shop’s owner Philip Green has found Jesus, but not as we might understand it.
Move over Kate Moss, the Christian look has arrived! And his followers have apparently never looked so good.
It appears Top Shop has just launched a new range of cosmetics called “Looking good for Jesus” and it has inevitably aroused the wrath of Catholics and other Christians in the country.
Among the offending ladies items are a lip balm called Virtuous Vanilla and a hand and body cream called Get Tight with Christ. I kid you not.
The lip balm has caused particular offence by depicting two women lovingly gazing up to Jesus with flowers in their hair, complete with robes.
It begs the question: why anyone would want to use the Christian faith to promote vanity products?
Coming from a cheerless, austere, protestant background, I remember the girls at our youth club were not allowed to wear any form of make-up, just in case it caused boys to have uncontrollable lusty thoughts. Dowdiness seemed to somehow equate to godliness.
Of course, Dove Cosmetics has now
made natural beauty their main marketing strategy with their natural beauty campaign. And brilliant it is too.
In a time when when we are obsessed with image like never before, maybe this is the ideal time to really consider what it is to be made in God's image (Genesis).
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is found in the Book of Samuel when it says “man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” ( 1 Sam 16:7).
As a man, I don’t feel confident to talk about cosmetics. I’ll leave that post for the missus. As for “looking good for Jesus”, I would have thought that was done at creation. Boy, I'm naive!
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