Sunglasses - Should real Christians wear them?

[Two-Dollar Bill]

This French idiot is actually wearing sunglasses on a plane!

Now that summer is upon us it's time to break out the shirtsleeves and loafers! I, for one, cannot wait for the warm weather and the time I can spend out of doors enjoying God's beautiful gift to us!

However, there's something that has bothered me since I was a child: sunglasses. I refuse to wear sunglasses. It is my own belief, perhaps yours as well, that those who wear sunglasses are not showing respect for the Lord. There's something just not Christian about them.

In addition to making people look stupid and pretentious, sunglasses disfigure your view of the way God intended for you to see the world. If he wanted it to be night time, all the time, he would have rested on day one.

There are any number of points, that can be backed up with scripture, about why one shouldn't wear sunglasses. For one, sunglasses are an obvious form of personal vanity. They are not necessary and most of the people who wear them are merely trying to attract attention or trying to look "cool". It's even worse when they spend a lot of money on them. God teaches us to be humble. There is nothing humble about a $300 pair of sunglasses. If that isn't enough Isaiah 5:20-21 states:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; That put darkness for light, and light for darkness; That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!"

Now, with this in mind, consider the groups of people who always wear sunglasses: homers, rock and roll musicians, rappers, Europeans (especially Scandinavians), Californians (especially movie people in Los Angeles), terrorists, drunkards, Obama and so on. You can even combine these: Elton John always has sunglasses on and he is a homer European musician.

I also don't buy this nonsense about "prescription sunglasses". If you really can't look at sunlight without crying then you are surely being punished for your sins. Otherwise you're just a coward who is pretending to be special. Either way you are obviously not a good Christian.

Seems to me that people did OK without sunglasses for hundreds of years. Now, when so many have lost their faith, they are a sign of the times. I'm afraid the future is not that bright.

[MisterM]

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I have to confess that I use sunglasses while driving a car. Your post did give me a new perspective, I should rethink the need.

Thanks,
M

[RevDrJack]

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I've never trusted people who wear sunglasses. I can't see their eyes and I don't know where they are really looking. Why would anyone want to hide their eyes?

YIC


Mat 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how greatisthat darkness!

[BelieverInGod]

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I can understand sunglasses, when you're out in the sun or driving, but this wearing sunglasses all the time is just plain foolish.

Why do you need sunglasses on a plane?
Why do you need sunglasses inside at all?

[Alphonse Alban]

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Why do you need sunglasses on a plane?

In general, you don't need them in plane. In this case, he looks lot like a soccer player. He propably got pink eye from sodomy.

[Zechariah Smyth]

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Squinting was good enough for John Wayne: it's good enough for me.

YiC,

Z. Smyth
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[DDM1985]

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This French idiot is actually wearing sunglasses on a plane!

Now that summer is upon us it's time to break out the shirtsleeves and loafers! I, for one, cannot wait for the warm weather and the time I can spend out of doors enjoying God's beautiful gift to us!

However, there's something that has bothered me since I was a child: sunglasses. I refuse to wear sunglasses. It is my own belief, perhaps yours as well, that those who wear sunglasses are not showing respect for the Lord. There's something just not Christian about them.

In addition to making people look stupid and pretentious, sunglasses disfigure your view of the way God intended for you to see the world. If he wanted it to be night time, all the time, he would have rested on day one.

There are any number of points, that can be backed up with scripture, about why one shouldn't wear sunglasses. For one, sunglasses are an obvious form of personal vanity. They are not necessary and most of the people who wear them are merely trying to attract attention or trying to look "cool". It's even worse when they spend a lot of money on them. God teaches us to be humble. There is nothing humble about a $300 pair of sunglasses. If that isn't enough Isaiah 5:20-21 states:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; That put darkness for light, and light for darkness; That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!"

Now, with this in mind, consider the groups of people who always wear sunglasses: homers, rock and roll musicians, rappers, Europeans (especially Scandinavians), Californians (especially movie people in Los Angeles), terrorists, drunkards, Obama and so on. You can even combine these: Elton John always has sunglasses on and he is a homer European musician.

I also don't buy this nonsense about "prescription sunglasses". If you really can't look at sunlight without crying then you are surely being punished for your sins. Otherwise you're just a coward who is pretending to be special. Either way you are obviously not a good Christian.

Seems to me that people did OK without sunglasses for hundreds of years. Now, when so many have lost their faith, they are a sign of the times. I'm afraid the future is not that bright.

Those people that call themselves vampires wear sunglasses all the time, too... they say their eyes are sensitive. They also claim they're evolutionary cousins to humanity. As for me, I don't believe either one... just like I don't believe that adding steak-sauce to blood makes it edible, either.

[DDM1985]

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In general, you don't need them in plane. In this case, he looks lot like a soccer player. He propably got pink eye from sodomy.

Wow. That was a horrible thought.

I knew a kid, who got pink-eye in the fifth grade. My dad told me it's usually something cattle get. At the time, I thought he kissed a cow, or something...

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

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well here where I live is sunny ALL the time nearly ans the sunglasses is practicals for pretect you the eyes and no wrinkle your face or put you the japanese eyes' all the time so I wear me the sunglasses a lot and also I think it can add you the style and match the clothes's too, I have 6 or 7 pairs or maybe more because my sisters and me share and eswap us the sunglasses a lot too, and some of Paquitas's are nice whit real estyle but I think Montse have the nicest pair of all of us.

(And by the way, the photo is Iker Casillas on left and the sunglassed guy I'm no sure who is but I'm sure he are spanish.)


YIC, Mari.

[MisterM]

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or put you the japanese eyes' all the time so I wear me the sunglasses.

This sounds like sensible reason. I don't think anyone wants to be Jap.

YiC, M

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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the sunglasses is practicals for pretect you the eyes and no wrinkle your face or put you the japanese eyes' all the time so I wear me the sunglasses a lot ...

YIC, Mari.

Lady, this is the first thing you've said that I can agree with. I spend quite a lot of time over in chinkland, and believe you me, the last thing I want is to catch the slant off of them.

[María Gálvez-Villalobos]

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Lady, this is the first thing you've said that I can agree with. I spend quite a lot of time over in chinkland, and believe you me, the last thing I want is to catch the slant off of them.

Than k you Pastor Zeke. See? I can sometimes talk whit the common sensicle at times.

Mari.

[Robert Adams]

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I ain't never heard of no sunglasses, but from that picture you showed me, I can say that he ain't up to no good.

I wouldn't trust him. He's one of Satin's minions.

Fer you folk wantin' to make yer own or whatever, don't do it. To quote Matt 6:23, "But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"

[Robert Adams]

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I just got e-mailed this picture, but someone thinks there being funny, but they ain't. I ain't never worn no sun glass or whatever they're called.

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

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"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22-23)

By obscuring one of the best ways to tell the integrity of a person, we do ourselves and the world a great disservice. Sunglasses, on that basis alone, should be considered a big no.

Pastor Ed