Ha ha, that’s always the way with the internet, you think you’ve posted something original and then you find out its been done about a billion times before and your contribution is met by a collective ‘I’ve seen that before’. Actually when I found that site I was looking for something called bible man. I was over in Washington D.C about 4 years ago and I was looking round some religious shop for a present for my dad and I suddenly came across these three action figures, one was ‘Bible Man’, a rather saintly looking fellow who brandishes the holy book at people. I think the other one was Satan if my memory serves me correctly. I couldn’t stop laughing, I was picturing some poor kid out in the American Midwest tearing away at his present wrapping at Christmas. Once he finally opens it and takes a look inside, his disappointment is limitless. ‘Better than an action man Johnny’ says his dad ‘Bibleman will teach you the ways of the lord and show you how to reject Satan’. I nearly bought it for my dad but just managed to restrain myself, I didn’t want to give $10 to religious loonies. I think I found the link on a list on some website having typed ‘religious tat memorabilia’ or something like that into google. I don’t think I should credit the place for the link though, if anyone deserves to be credited it’s the Catholic Shopper site itself for keeping me highly amused yesterday when I was revising, and to think they could get away with displaying this stuff on the internet without any abuse whatsoever. Seems I was beaten to it a long time ago.
EDIT: Over 4 years ago by the looks of it
ANOTHER EDIT:
http://www.bibleman.com/bibleman/store.jsp
He's had a big image change since I saw him in the store and has been remodeled to look more like a superhero. Bibleman is still demonstatively uncool though.
'In the exciting conclusion, Bibleman is lured into a showdown with Primordius Drool – if Bibleman is defeated the Biblecave will be sealed forever and Drool’s wicked scheme to turn every believer into an atheist will succeed. In the action-packed finale Cypher and Biblegirl come to the rescue and put their faith on the line to overcome Primoridius Drool, Inter-Galactic Desperado and Despot of Evil.'
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