Quote Originally Posted by brentxzi
Anyone else think that these people are kind of silly? Consumerist adaptation of a religion.
Yeah, it's sad.
But our consumerist society has been doing this for aeons, ever since ancient nobility started having religious objects made of the most precious metals and stones available to them.
We've seen two thousand years' worth of heavy gold crosses around the necks of anyone wanting to proclaim their religion and wealth in one fell swoop. It's fashionable to some to wear expensive symbols of faith.
Personally, I don't get it on much more than a rather cynical level. True faith does not need to be gaudily displayed. I wonder when I see someone going overboard with the display of religious symbols... how much of that is a semi-conscious attempt to make up for some failing of faith that the wearer sees in himself?
Does the bitter office worker gossiping nastily about others earn a reprieve from some time in Purgatory simply because she wears a cross while failing to turn the other cheek to a perceived insult, or to love her neighbor?

As for the trust-funded sorts proclaiming themselves Rasta only to justify smoking the herb... it's probably only because they have been conditioned to feel guilt over it and are trying to give their habit legitimacy as a religious sacrament, when really, it needs no justification at all. Sad.