Wow, who knew angels were trademarked? Guess the Mormons are getting as bad as the Scientologists.
No religion is not a joke, but any religion worth believing in ought to be able to take a joke. If your faith isn’t strong enough to overcome a little fun, what’s the point of it?
Salt Lake Tribune – Angel Moroni gone, but new coffeehouse T-shirt still resolutely ‘irreverent’
Coffee makers here have turned potential trademark infringement into grounds for inspiration.
In March, the LDS Church asked Just Add Coffee to stop selling a popular T-shirt that featured coffee being funneled into Angel Moroni’s iconic trumpet. (The angel tops most LDS temples and figures prominently in the religion’s scriptures.)
The Taylorsville store owners complied, but the spat spurred a new design, with the angel removed, that might prove even more marketable.
It shows a giant hand from the sky pouring the java – which the LDS Church urges its members to abstain from drinking – into a disembodied trumpet.
The caption: “The Lord giveth, and a church taketh away.”
Via Boing Boing.
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