Shoes To Die for

Wow, super creepy.

I dunno if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or a WTF thing. Fo sho human sacrifice is teh wrong, right. If religion is cultural and helps peeps, then that is OK, right. But what if the religion (from this atheist's point of view) is totally made up and used by drug traffickers to kill. I'll go out on a limb...wrong.

A while ago I wrote about Santa Muerte which is a mix of the bad ol' Catholicism and a voodoo-y looking brown people indigenous religion of the Meh-he-con-oh's. In the Mexican culture death is revered  and Santa Muerte literally means Saint Death. I'm down for cultural religion, myyyyyy beautiful Philippines has a lot of that, but when said religion is hijacked by drug traffickers and they go all human sacrifice-n-shit to some how protect their illegal endeavors, then that is wrong-ville.

Last month 8 peeps were arrested for killing (sacrificing) three people for their satanic ritual. But guess what, I don't want to talk about that. To my confusion Nike has come out with the Nike Dunk High Santa Muerte line.

It boasts "handmade tooling leather, but looks like they have been lasered."

You have the iconic Nike Swoosh and a prominent Santa Muerte, I guess to signify that you are a satanic drug trafficker that is willing to human sacrifice innocent peeps to ensure your "cargo" doesn't get confiscated at the boarder.

Lasty and most yucky...it comes with horse hair (1). The best part...these can be yours for about 60-70 bucks.

Like I said earlier...WTF.

* Santa Muerte Wiki

* Sneaker Files

* Article at Religion Dispatches and you can vote for them for a Webby Award. They are going up against CNN Belief blog which is OK, but compared to RD...it sucks.

* Article Three killed

(1) That is sooooo not desirable to me.