Ahh, October. My favorite month of the entire year, and not just because my wife’s birthday is on the 25. October is when no one can try and talk me out of being in a “Fall” sort of mood. Fall is a great season. The leaves are changing, the air is cool and crisp, and hot chocolate stock is on the rise. It is also the season where we begin to change what we wear. We move from shorts and t-shirts over to long pants and sweaters. It was while meditating on fashion, clothes, and all the various things that one can wear that my mind wandered over to the subject of kilts. Now being of Irish descent myself (yes, Irish people are also allowed to wear kilts), I wanted to clear up a few modern misunderstandings about kilts. For some bizarre reason that I shall never fully understand, certain people are trying to help kilts make a comeback into popular culture after being ousted for the last 400 years or so in favor of pants. I support such valiant efforts; and if I actually owned a kilt I might actually wear it on very rare occasions. The problem stems from the fact that not everyone who wants to see the kilt make a comeback actually know anything. Some people are just in this for the money. Enter “the man-skirt.” Now to the untrained eye the man-skirt and a kilt may appear indistinguishable. Since I am a youth minister and not a fashion expert, I am not going to go into the differences here. I do wish to make it clear that I am sad because now says any piece of cloth half-heartedly thrown about the waist on a man is considered a kilt. Needless to say, it is not. Popular culture and fashion designers who only want your money couldn’t care less about what a kilt actually looks like, or about the brave men who wore them. Like Mel Gibson. Sort of. Because we don’t live in an age where kilts are common, we are often deceived into wearing a man-skirt instead. Not satisfied simply with ruining authentic Celtic fashion, our culture applied the same methods to truth and morals. Something is right or wrong good or evil based solely the ability of the media to influence popular opinion. It can be difficult to make good decisions under these circumstances, but God has an answer. He has given us his word in the Bible, and the Church to help us understand it. So read your Bible daily and if you have questions don’t be afraid to ask. God loves you, so take your moral advice from him and not someone who calls a skirt a kilt just to make a buck. Mel does.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Kilt vs. Man Skirt, and how the Bible can show you the way (10-07-2007)
Ahh, October. My favorite month of the entire year, and not just because my wife’s birthday is on the 25. October is when no one can try and talk me out of being in a “Fall” sort of mood. Fall is a great season. The leaves are changing, the air is cool and crisp, and hot chocolate stock is on the rise. It is also the season where we begin to change what we wear. We move from shorts and t-shirts over to long pants and sweaters. It was while meditating on fashion, clothes, and all the various things that one can wear that my mind wandered over to the subject of kilts. Now being of Irish descent myself (yes, Irish people are also allowed to wear kilts), I wanted to clear up a few modern misunderstandings about kilts. For some bizarre reason that I shall never fully understand, certain people are trying to help kilts make a comeback into popular culture after being ousted for the last 400 years or so in favor of pants. I support such valiant efforts; and if I actually owned a kilt I might actually wear it on very rare occasions. The problem stems from the fact that not everyone who wants to see the kilt make a comeback actually know anything. Some people are just in this for the money. Enter “the man-skirt.” Now to the untrained eye the man-skirt and a kilt may appear indistinguishable. Since I am a youth minister and not a fashion expert, I am not going to go into the differences here. I do wish to make it clear that I am sad because now says any piece of cloth half-heartedly thrown about the waist on a man is considered a kilt. Needless to say, it is not. Popular culture and fashion designers who only want your money couldn’t care less about what a kilt actually looks like, or about the brave men who wore them. Like Mel Gibson. Sort of. Because we don’t live in an age where kilts are common, we are often deceived into wearing a man-skirt instead. Not satisfied simply with ruining authentic Celtic fashion, our culture applied the same methods to truth and morals. Something is right or wrong good or evil based solely the ability of the media to influence popular opinion. It can be difficult to make good decisions under these circumstances, but God has an answer. He has given us his word in the Bible, and the Church to help us understand it. So read your Bible daily and if you have questions don’t be afraid to ask. God loves you, so take your moral advice from him and not someone who calls a skirt a kilt just to make a buck. Mel does.
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