EASTON, PA – Today the CEO of Crayola announced it will only manufacture crayons in two colors: black and white. The CEO was quoted as saying, “We have decided that anything that needs to be expressed by children can be done so using these hues, and that having other colors available to them will just lead them to imbellish the truth and promote post-modern thought. Additionally, having all the extra colors might encourage children to try and see things from other children’s perspectives. We at Crayola believe the only perspective children need to see is the correct one we tell them. Because as we know, there is only one way to look at the world and the events that occur.”
“We are also pleased to announce that next month we will begin shipping our new product tentatively called “fundie-specs”. When worn, these glasses give the wearer the astounding ability to see amazingly complex things in the simplest of ways. When presented with a beautiful sunset with complex colors and shading, children will now see only a black circle descending into a white field. It will make artistic presentation a much simpler endeavor. We all know that children only need to worry about the bleak facts of the matter and not the stunning beauty.”
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Crayola also announced that there will be a few exceptions. You will be able to use other colors when it comes to baptism, the Lord’s Supper, eschatology, and other landscapes as long as you agree on black and white for everything else.
WOW! Again I say WOW!
That article at C?N is so narrow and so historically blinded one wonders how they actually see any other hue.
…funny, the article doesn’t acknowledge that believers over the millennia have held differing views…and then it fails to even pick one themselves.
Case in point: This is exactly what happens wen you hold a systematic theology to equivalency of scripture, in essence creating a ‘new gospel’…
The article does not mention that his view took hundreds of years to develop before it was even accepted… boy I hope God’s grace was sufficient to all those who did not believe like the editor before his system of theology was fully developed!
Really WHOEVER posted that article just showed himself an uneducated hick. LOL!
iggy
*hammer*
Nail
Head
As a photographer there is something interesting which happens within my mind when I work soley in black and white media for long periods. (And yes, this still happens fairly often.) I actually begin to see in black and white. Not literally but I begin to perceive in black and white, looking at nuances of shading and shadow, looking for details in the shadow areas while striving to avoid letting the highlights go off the scale. Its an interesting phenomenon.
I believe there is a lesson in there somewhere.
John,
What you describe sounds more like grey scale than black and white. How can you have nuances of shading and shadows when there are only two colors in stark contrast.
I believe I get your point, but when we create issues of only two colors, all the nuances you describe disappear.
Neil
Uh, Neil. When you blend black and white you get gray. That’s how it works.
Color is not inherent in the object, it in the way the light is collected off an object. Each object has a different molecualr structure, hence the way the light appears as it reflects. And when an object which is red is pictured as black and white, it is because of the film.
We are the film which frames the Scriptures and colors them with our interpretation.