# Would this T-shirt be offensive? (Christian Dopers' opinions especially needed) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260 "2004-09-05T20:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260/81 "2004-09-08T07:18:09Z")
I despise the term “homeboy” or “homey”- other than that- “eh”. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260/82 "2004-09-08T07:40:46Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Nice collection, thanks! And \*\*OtakuLoki \*\* I didn’t know about the Darwin Fish, It’s an anti-creationist symbol, isn’t it? Is it a well known symbol in the USA? It’s rather infamous in fact, since it’s a parody of the Christian fish symbol (take off the feet and replace “Darwin” with “Jesus” or “IXΘYΣ”, or just leave it blank). Lately there are also fish that say Satan (with horns), Gefilte, Mutant (with three legs or other weirdness), or my personal favorite, Cthulu (with tentacles). As for the T-shirt, it’s ugly and dumb, but not really worth a mention otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260/83 "2004-09-08T08:06:43Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > AoG (think tight-assed Ashcroft) First off, it’s A/G, not AoG. Second of all, it’s become highly tiresome to have the visible supposed adherents of the denomination used as a means of stereotyping us all, and I’d expect better from you, Tom. A/G members may be pretty devout, but tight-assed isn’t a word I’d use to describe the people I know. (Five churches in five different states, plus friends in a number of others.) Whatever John Ashcroft’s personal convictions, you’ll find that A/G adherents run the gamut from those who don’t dance, see movies, watch television, play cards or listen to secular music to those of us who are film fanatics, sing Elton John songs in the car to our kids, vacation in Vegas and even have the occasional cocktail, though perhaps not in public. We don’t all anoint ourselves every morning, demand the draping of artwork or act like humorless, dour, sticks in the mud. If we did, it wouldn’t be my church – for the last 30+ years. Like **FriarTed** mentioned, there are far worse t-shirts – This Christ’s For You in the Budweiser logo and Christ in the Coca-Cola font, declared to be the “real thing” – which are meant to show one’s belief in Christ. Unlike those, the Homeboy shirt does so in a stupid way, but not an offensive or pandering way. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260/84 "2004-09-08T11:41:26Z")
> [@](#): > > A/G members may be pretty devout, but tight-assed isn’t a word I’d use to describe the people I know. However, while the A/G people I know do include some wonderful people, with open minds and good senses of humor, (and two of them routinely use the notation AoG in their notes to me, but I will correct my usage in the future), every one of them brings to the table a theology that is a bit stiff. Perhaps I just don’t know enough A/G members (although I can count nearly 100), but with the exception of one Southern Baptist (who was a loon, personally, regardless of belief), every person I’ve met who would condemn wine with dinner as carousing, insist that I was damned for my papism, and tell an abused spouse that she _had_ to stay with her abusive husband because God demanded it was A/G. (These are all real-life examples.) Clearly **ggurl** has a sense of humor and perspective and I did not claim that she was either atypical of A/G adherents or that she did not belong. My use of tight-assed was intended only for Ashcroft, himself, while pointing in the general direction of A/G theology. For my hasty characterization, I apologize. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-t-shirt-be-offensive-christian-dopers-opinions-especially-needed/263260.md?page=4)