Post #117538 by tiki5-0 on Fri, Oct 1, 2004 4:00 PM

i agree with mrsmley on this. i have grown up in the church my whole life and i have no problem with tikis. i think it's how you look at it. i look at them as something cool looking and how talented someone has to be to create them. i have 2 that i've bought and 2 i've carved myself plus about 12 mugs or so. i don't worship them, i just like they way they look. we have a luau every summer at our church to bring in the new sixth graders into the youth group. we get a lot of decorations from oceanic arts(it's right down the street). we have a samoan church come and do some songs and dances and everyone has a great time. the youth pastor is a friend of mine and he bought tiki for their house at the long beach tiki festival. his wife wants me to carve a tiki during the luau next summer. so i think it just depends on how people look at it. i haven't heard anything negative about it said at my church. i think it's fun to collect and a great form of art to create something so cool out of a piece of wood, but i don't worship it. maybe i'm just not as uptight about it as some others might be.

[ Edited by: tiki5-0 on 2004-10-01 16:01 ]