Mar 28, 2012 -- 3:25PM, dblad wrote:

Mar 20, 2012 -- 9:41PM, Beautiful_Dreamer wrote:

Plus, I tend to only see that in areas where there is a tendency among some people to conflate Christianity with nationalism (well, really, with the Republican party). I don't appreciate that at all. I think that our faith can definitely affect the way we vote, but I don't like the implication that one can't be a Real Christian (tm) without following a party line.

 

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That's merely a description of his social philosophy.  It's not conflating him, or the Christian religion, with nationalism.

It also appears to be an accurate description. It's awfully hard to read passages such as Luke 18:18-23, or Matthew 22:15-22, or Matthew 25:31-46, or John 8:2-11, for example, and conclude that Jesus supported the same policy positions that political conservatives do today.

It's just as hard, by the way, to find any of today's Democrats, or political or religious liberals, conflating either Jesus or the Christian religion with nationalism.  That sort of conflation is almost exclusively the province of Republican political and religious conservatives.

New one for the list.

An oversized crucifix nightlight with a tiny metal Jesus nailed to it.

Same store where I found those Jesus coin banks, too.

It's right next to a Dollar Tree I like to visit,* and so I periodically pop in just to see what they have as well.

By dumb luck I happened to poke my head around the corner where they have the hardware and saw it.

*They have an arrangement with a company known as CardsOne. Every Easter and Christmas, CardsOne provides them with an exclusive product: two vintage, usually uncirculated, comic books randomly bagged along with a vintage trading card. Two vintage comics and a trading card for $1 is a steal no matter how you slice it, and so I make it a point to duck in to the local Dollar Trees to see what CardsOne has unearthed this time.

The store here in Copperas Cove, for example, had a copy of Batman #500 in one of the bags when I rolled in on Tuesday.

Or the one in Killeen had M.A.S.K. #1 last Christmas.

Mar 31, 2012 -- 6:20PM, Beautiful_Dreamer wrote:

That actually sounds cool! I love Dollar Stores...actually, that's where I get my boxed Christmas cards to send out each year...some of the ones they have are nicer than the ones at Target!

This year, I noted a couple bagged sets that had an issue of Johnny Quest and an issue of Next Man, both by Comico and both released in the 1980s.

If someone has younger kids, that issue of JQ might be a good way to get them involved in comics.

Heck, I used to try to ignore the bags that had Archer & Armstrong (Valiant) because CardsOne just had so many back issues they were trying to move they weren't anything special, but this time around the assortment was such that I broke down and picked up a few bags with A&A in them because the other comic was just that high up on my want list.

link to images of two of the vending machine bits.

Bear in mind that it's on DeviantArt, so you'll need a good ad-blocker in place first before going.