# Christian products - hot new trend in retail biz

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 27, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919 "2005-01-27T14:48:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919/21 "2005-01-27T22:53:59Z")

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> [@manhattan](#):
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> Like [this charming number](http://www.choiceshirts.com/store/showitem.asp?k=A12568A&source=FGCSP12568A), designed to appear hip to today’s youth?

Now _that_…is creepy.

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**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919/22 "2005-01-27T23:48:55Z")

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> [@Hamlet](#):
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> I don’t have much to say about the debate, but I thought I’d share [this story](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/01/20/905043-ap.html) about the demise of a Christian Bookstore and how it was much more profitable when the store sold porn instead.

That story reminds me of one of the greatest threads in the history of the SDMB, [url=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30135](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30135)”]Smut shop employees\*\*, which was taken over by a sock puppet/troll and then sent over the edge by the incomparable **Arnold Winkelried** on page 3. Read it through to Arnold’s posts.

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**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919/23 "2005-01-27T23:50:41Z")

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[fixed link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30135)

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919/24 "2005-01-28T00:20:14Z")

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> [@Billdo](#):
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> [fixed link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30135)

Ah, that was a good one.

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**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-products-hot-new-trend-in-retail-biz/286919/25 "2005-01-28T00:54:31Z")

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> [@Can Handle the Truth](#):
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> So, is America on the verge of a “Great Awakening”-type revival? Any comments?

Heh. Ya think? 😃

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