Certainly the costs would triple, if not more, but again, I must ask whom do you serve? God or Mammon? I will also grant you this nation of ours is fallen far, far from the “Light Upon A Hill” some of our Puritan forebears wished it to be - if indeed it ever really was - but so far, our government does not openly or covertly execute Christians as “enemies of the state” and that is an extremely important distinction. There is no reason your textile based products cannot be made in America. Dealing with China is as much a deal with the devil as the nefarious bargain Faust struck himself in Goethe’s masterwork. Making money in all throughout the Scriptures and is a linchpin in the passage of Proverbs the company is named for, but I have serious issues with your company if you are using God like so many politicians today - as a marketing tool - all the while filling the coffers of an avowedly atheistic regime, I don’t mind entrepreneurship but I detest hypocrisy in all it’s forms. I don’t have an issue with your company if you want to make money. Please, I beg you, spare me the tired saw of “well, it’s the only way we can AFFORD to sell at the price we do,” because the minute you say that, you are out of the realm of God and into the realm of Mammon.
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Child labor, slave labor, human rights violations by the score AND unyielding persecution and outright murder of Christians are daily facts of life in China yet you do business with them. My wife brought home her recently purchased order of Thirty-One product today and as I was looking over her goods, I found to my great dismay that each item was labeled “Made in China.” I hope an organization like yours, which purports to be founded on “Christian ideals and principles” and mentions the name of God several times in your material would have a legitimate reason for purchasing your products wholesale from the greatest persecutor of Christians since Domitian ruled Rome. Here is the email I sent the customer service department of Thirty-One after discovering all of the items Budge had bought said Made In China:
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However, as the son of a real Proverbs 31 woman and the husband of another, I take offense at Thirty-One’s hypocrisy that appears on the little tags inside every piece of Thirty-One merchandise which say “Made In China.” How can I come down on such a wholesome group? Why, the very name “Thirty-One” is a reference to Proverbs 31 a Bible passage which outlines the graces and superlatives of the ideal woman. The company which has attracted my ire most recently for this egregious profiteering is Thirty-One. Still, I cannot abide hypocrisy and to me the worst form of hypocrisy is that which strives to make money or any other form of gain through the use of reference to the Bible, Jesus, God, or any other type of religious iconography. With direct sales, you know you’re getting huckstered, but that’s okay because you’re going to do the same thing to this same group of people at your next “party.”
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I have the ice cream scoop, apple corer, a set of utensils, and a sweet, lime green santoku knife. Where else can you make rent money by guilting your friends and your friends’ friends into buying overpriced stuff they will never use while they are under the sway of a glass or two of Bi-Lo wine and surfeit of those little cream filled chocolate eclair poofs from Costco? Personally, I’m a Pampered Chef junkie. The reason for this particular rant against hypocrisy has its roots in a “direct sales” party Budge attended just before school was out. I realize I’ve often been cited as having no filter for my opinions, but I prefer to look at it as letting everyone know where I stand. I would rather deal with a pathological liar than a hypocrite because at least with a liar, you know what you’ve got. Honore de Balzac once remarked, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” I would like to appropriate his comment in a paraphrase to state “Behind at least one growing fortune likes a great hypocrisy.” Anyone who knows me for long will discover at some point in our relationship I hate three things above all others - cabbage, the New York Yankees, and hypocrisy.