why are rosaries cool?

[Tha J-train]

why are people wearing rosaries as the latest piece of flair? I've seen them on bam, robin thicke, random dudes with the turn of the century elizabethean style going on, rasta looking dudes (which really doesn't make sense), guys who wear T-shirts over dress shirts, and now diamond's got two new shirts with rosaries on it.  I don't mean to be a hater but as a catholic who actually prays the rosary it really trivializes a prayer that has made a big difference in my life, and seeing people throw it on to up their style points comes off as hella disrespectful to me.  what's next, yarmulkes instead of new eras? well... i can't complain that much seeing how clothing companies have tried to turn the rastafarian religion into a marketing tool.  There's a line there... its hard to say what's respectful and promotes vs what's bogus and cheapens. 

[Edward Penishands]

now you know how the rastafarians feel about everyone rocking red/green/yellow and pot leafs on their clothes

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Way to spell yarmulke right!

[grimcity]

why are people wearing rosaries as the latest piece of flair? I've seen them on bam, robin thicke, random dudes with the turn of the century elizabethean style going on, rasta looking dudes (which really doesn't make sense), guys who wear T-shirts over dress shirts, and now diamond's got two new shirts with rosaries on it.  I don't mean to be a hater but as a catholic who actually prays the rosary it really trivializes a prayer that has made a big difference in my life, and seeing people throw it on to up their style points comes off as hella disrespectful to me.  what's next, yarmulkes instead of new eras? well... i can't complain that much seeing how clothing companies have tried to turn the rastafarian religion into a marketing tool.  There's a line there... its hard to say what's respectful and promotes vs what's bogus and cheapens. 

I don't wear a rosary, though every once in a while I wear a little crucifix necklace that was sent to me by some bullshit scam artist fundie group that used the trinket as a ploy to get people to donate money to them (I'm not talking about a charity organization, I'm talking about religiscammers), and I'm a very open atheist. I just think the little think looks cool.

Had it been a rosary, and I thought it looked cool (and wasn't worried about it poking me in the eye), I might be inclined to sport it every once in a while... if only because I'd dig on the irony of it. As far as it being disrepectful to you, what do you care? Your rosary is between you and whatever being(s) you pray to. If your god is real, he can certainly handle himself, and just as it isn't anyone's business to interrupt your cosmic conversations, it really isn't your concern to worry about how other people use religious trinkets, right?

You made a point about people wearing it somehow trivializing prayer... I guess i can dig that, and actually, I could see wearing a rosary for the sole purpose of "stating" that prayer is a trivial thing (as I personally believe it to be). I don't see why you'd be so offended though... I mean, if the creator of the universe is on your team, then what do you care? Just pray for god to zap them.

[Tha J-train]

think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

[grimcity]

think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

See, I can't relate... I see tons of random brodies wearing skate gear daily, and I couldn't care.

And again, if God is on your side, why would you concern yourself with something as petty as a piece of jewelery? To me, it's beads on a string... to you it's something different.

Are you offended on behalf of God? Better yet, do you think it offends God? If you say "yes," then how do you know?

I'd wager (if I was a betting man of faith) that God thinks it's just beads on a string too. If he were real, maybe he's into the prayers, but do you think an omnipresent, omniscient being could give two shits about high-quality mardi gras beads?

Does any of that have an effect on your faith?

[Edward Penishands]

think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

i worship skateboarding

[Guile]

hold on while i google rosarie

[beeda weeda]

my parents gave me one when i was 16, lost  it in a fight, I didn't care. I'm an athiest, I dont  believing in anything but the fact that people are living on the earth.

[ahlee]

i was doing my daily porning when a video i opened was a chick geting railed dressed like a nun, i freaked out and shut it and looked around to make sure noone saw.

[beeda weeda]

god saw,  he told me he was un-happy that you closed the video.

[MexicanSpaniard]

Way to spell yarmulke right!

that's the first thing I thought of too when I read the post.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

i was doing my daily porning when a video i opened was a chick geting railed dressed like a nun, i freaked out and shut it and looked around to make sure noone saw.

"Her name was Sistah Fista'"

[Sleazy]

think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

isn't the whole point of symbolism in religion to help spread the word? seems like you'd be stoked. elitism and religion seem like they don't mix well together to me.

[ahlee]

"kindness is my relgion"

now just imagine if everybody lived by those words.

[Mooley]

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think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

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isn't the whole point of symbolism in religion to help spread the word? seems like you'd be stoked. elitism and religion seem like they don't mix well together to me.

I want you to think about that statement for a minute.

[SimonP]

and now diamond's got two new shirts with rosaries on it.

Is it this diamond shirt?

[Sleazy]

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think about it like this - you like skateboarding, right? think of your favorite skate brand, the one that means most to you. now imagine the biggest tool (who doesn't actually skate) wearing that a shirt with that logo on it.  now multiply that feeling times a million, because skateboarding is something you like and God is someone I worship. 

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isn't the whole point of symbolism in religion to help spread the word? seems like you'd be stoked. elitism and religion seem like they don't mix well together to me.

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I want you to think about that statement for a minute.

drawing a blank here, what's wrong with it?

[cold budweisers]

hold on while i google rosarie

are you really that clueless? 

[Guile]

im guessing it has something to do with roses, and possibly that little baby jesus fellow i hear so much about.

[skatebored]

i was doing my daily porning when a video i opened was a chick geting railed dressed like a nun, i freaked out and shut it and looked around to make sure noone saw.

haha...you were doing your daily porning and had to look around to make sure nobody saw?

[ahlee]

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i was doing my daily porning when a video i opened was a chick geting railed dressed like a nun, i freaked out and shut it and looked around to make sure noone saw.

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haha...you were doing your daily porning and had to look around to make sure nobody saw?

yea, thank goodness it wasnt a sold out show.

[Knockout Ned]

on a similar note.. not really stoked on all the companies using the day of the dead/vato style art right now, its just played out, its cool when a company like Real or Vans does it, but i really dont want to see a sugar skull on a Famous stars and straps shirt.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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hold on while i google rosarie

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are you really that clueless? 

Why should a non catholic know what a rosarie is? I don't really. I know its got beads and a cross, but don't really know what it is or is about, and hopefully I can say without offending catholics, it doesn't really matter to me.
Actually, I don't care if I offend a christian. Y'all are the white people of religion.

[MexicanSpaniard]

on a similar note.. not really stoked on all the companies using the day of the dead/vato style art right now, its just played out, its cool when a company like Real or Vans does it, but i really dont want to see a sugar skull on a Famous stars and straps shirt.

I have a 3 year old shirt from Chuy's that's for dia de los muertos. Es tres mariachi's in skeleton form. It's dope and you get a discount if you wear it in to eat.

[CUDDLEMONSTER]

i always like to check the bottom of religious paraphernalia to see where it was made. statues of mary, rosaries, whatever almost always are made in china. does the fact that non-christians working for a few cents on an assembly line are making these things bother you? that to me seems like a bigger deal than billy broham down the street rocking a crucifix. it's a material thing: most likely plastic- and before it was shaped into whatever symbol you find to be meaningful it was a puddle of oil.. who cares? it's just a thing. that you find it meaningful doesn't change that.

[cold budweisers]

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hold on while i google rosarie

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are you really that clueless? 

[close]

Why should a non catholic know what a rosarie is? I don't really. I know its got beads and a cross, but don't really know what it is or is about, and hopefully I can say without offending catholics, it doesn't really matter to me.
Actually, I don't care if I offend a christian. Y'all are the white people of religion.

god shut up

[somekid]

i always like to check the bottom of religious paraphernalia to see where it was made. statues of mary, rosaries, whatever almost always are made in china. does the fact that non-christians working for a few cents on an assembly line are making these things bother you? that to me seems like a bigger deal than billy broham down the street rocking a crucifix. it's a material thing: most likely plastic- and before it was shaped into whatever symbol you find to be meaningful it was a puddle of oil.. who cares? it's just a thing. that you find it meaningful doesn't change that.

actually, its been proven by fox news that god only loves americans.

[Alexactly]

I agree with Gay-train, the only religious imagery allowed on skate gear should be pentagrams and inverted crosses.

[Tha J-train]

to clear a couple things up, i'm not shaken by it.  I'm still going to pray the rosary.  it doesn't change the way I worship, and my beliefs will stay the same.  

Why would it bother me? think about this - Some jews are not even allowed to say the name of their God.  they have to use another name.  that's how sacred God is to them.  there's a scripture verse that says "At the name of God every knee shall bend" Although it might be just a crazy idea to believe in God to some of you posters on here, God is real to me.  and think about muslims,  why would the holy nation of islam go nuts if an image of their God or even their prophet was made for a reason other than worship? because its sacred to them.  they hold their beliefs in their heart and defend them with everything they have, and I admire that.  They believe what they believe and they stand up for it at whatever cost.  Of course some have misinterpretted teachings and taken things too far, but so have christians.  My point is that I hate to see something that represents something sacred to me become the puka shells of 2007.  

And no, i'm not "stoked" that the word's getting out.  first, the word's been out for over 2,000 years and second, I highly doubt anyone is going to become a catholic after seeing someone wearing a rosary around their neck.  

oh and cuddlemonster, not that i approve of either mass production of religoius symbols or sweatshop labor, you have to be hella cynical to think that china = sweatshop.  yes there are a lot of unethically run manufacturing plants in china but to blanket statement like that is ignorant.  speaking of ignorant to think that not knowing what a rosary is would offend the "white people of religion" is ridiculous when whites represent less than half of the catholic church.  

and yes that is one of the diamond shirts im talking about.  

alex you bring up an interesting point - let me explain.  recently chocolate ran a deck, im pretty sure it was a chico brenes (i was in nicaragua when i saw it and this kid mario got it from chico, and there is a hispanic - catholic connection in case you havent noticed) that was what i would call a holy card featuring st. joseph of cupertino.  this i didn't have a problem with and let me tell you why.  cause the way they did it was more like paying an homage to these saints (i just googled it and found the series, i really like them actually) instead of using them and banalizing them.