Comments on: Jesus Jerseys

By: Secular Planet

Secular Planet — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:24:25 +0000

I wish that Satan played for the New Jersey Devils. If he changed his number to 6 (with one on each sleeve), that would be even better. The Devils would sell so many jerseys!

Calvin Moore posted:

A couple weeks later, I found out the jersey was supporting the Russian Satan, not the Judeo-Christian one.

(Psst. Miroslav Šatan is Slovakian, not Russian.)

By: FromUpNorth

FromUpNorth — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:00:24 +0000

It’s pronounced “Hay-SOOS.”

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:29:54 +0000

Only in America: the perfect blend of hick religion and crass commercialism. American, land of of the affluent Philistines. Jesus must be getting a kick out of all this.

By: HappyNat

HappyNat — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:28:35 +0000

Good call, ash. “Rock me, Joe.”

By: ash

ash — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:50:47 +0000

whoever made the jerseys are obviously just big Pixies fans...

By: Calvin Moore

Calvin Moore — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:34:52 +0000

Ha! My parents have no idea about John Calvin, despite my name. LOL! Oh well. It was funny, though.

By: Siamang

Siamang — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:15:42 +0000

I just sucked it up and assumed the guy was going straight to hell (if he got hit by a bus on his way home from the game or, better yet, if he got hit by a stray hockey puck DURING the game–yes, this is how I thought back then).

This is what your parents get for naming their kid Calvin!

By: Calvin Moore

Calvin Moore — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:11:13 +0000

Funny anecdote:

When I first got into hockey back in ‘97, I went to a Red Wings game here in Detroit. While in the concourse grabbing a severely overpriced beverage, I ran across a guy wearing a Satan jersey. As a Christian I got all upset and indignant that someone could be that forward about worshiping Satan so openly. Thankfully, I didn’t SAY anything about it. I just sucked it up and assumed the guy was going straight to hell (if he got hit by a bus on his way home from the game or, better yet, if he got hit by a stray hockey puck DURING the game–yes, this is how I thought back then). A couple weeks later, I found out the jersey was supporting the Russian Satan, not the Judeo-Christian one.

Note to self: Don’t assume anything about anyone. More importantly, if you’re going to be ignorant about something, don’t do it in such a way that you’d look utterly stupid for it.

By: King Aardvark

King Aardvark — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:07:12 +0000

Aye, Miro Satan. ‘Tis a shame his career is winding down. There are very few years left for him in which he could sign a contract with the New Jersey Devils and be made their captain. The sportswriters would love that.

By: Mike C

Mike C — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:47:07 +0000

I think you guys may be misunderstanding me. The point is not that there is anything magical or mystical about the numbers in the Bible. The point is that they have symbolic theological significance. It’s no different than other kinds of symbolism in art or literature for instance.

Of course, I can’t speak for these jersey makers. It may be that they are trying to claim some kind of spiritual “power” in the numbers themselves… probably for marketing purposes. But serious Bible scholars (even conservative ones) would certainly not make any claims of that sort about symbolic numbers in the Bible. They are meaningful, but not “magical”.