Question by Childlike Empress: Is a Christian morally obligated to wear only Fair Trade clothing?
Many clothes were produced in dire conditions. Child labor, exceedingly low wages, harsh conditions, etc. Even brand names have fallen into this trap. So many of the clothes on store racks were made under immoral factory/wage conditions.
It is nearly next to impossible to know if an article of clothing was produced by such inhumane conditions. Therefore, isn’t a Christian obligated to purchase ONLY fair trade clothes & clothes that they know for a fact were not produced under immoral circumstances?
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Answer by Homeland Security
Women – all they know is clothes and shoes
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HUH! so wear a figleaf!
I would say it doesnt make you less of a christian, but less of a person, lol. You wouldnt lose salvation but just as people of any religion or no religion its our job to be informed and not support people who use others for there own benefit. If sneakers are made by slave children for cheap why are sneakers still so expensive (thank you flight of the conchords)
No. Just like you said, they won’t know it. It’s almost impossible to tell the difference.
No.
who is to trust what the label says. There are many people here in America that are mistreated by their boss. But that doesn’t stop people from eating at fast food places.
American manufacturers are all leaving for these places, who makes American stuff anymore?
If you couldn’t afford anything to eat, couldn’t grow food, and the only job had very long hours and uncomfortable conditions, would you rather starve? What if there ISN’T that job? What if your only option is to starve? That’s what it becomes if we do not support these establishments. The industrial revolution had far worse working conditions, in the united states. These are called “developing nations” for a reason, they’re not to the point in history the US is. They’re at the industrial revolution. If England wouldn’t buy our good, and the southern states remained producing their own, we’d still be farm country. No cars, no planes, no computers. Just imagine what these other nations will come up with, and how the lives of their people will improve after a few generations. It’s worth the heinous conditions to work toward progress. I think that if you want to buy clothes only made in industrialized countries, then you’re just making the people with 69 cent hamburgers and 50 dollars in their wallets get payed better. I’m a Christian. I believe we should let countries develop and become great just like our own.
I think that ALL people, not just Christians have a responsibility to be fair and make ethical choices in their lives that will improve humanity. If it’s accomplished by purchasing and wearing fair trade clothing or purchasing fair trade produce, coffee or other products, and it is within their means to do so, then yes.
However, a lot of so-called Fair Trade items are at a price that doesn’t always make it affordable for those in poor and working class families. Maybe a way around that is to sew all of one’s own clothing, but how feasible is that for most people these days? At any rate, it’s not right for someone to judge someone else because they’ve purchased or worn clothing that may have been made in this other manner. What if the person can only afford clothes from a thrift store such as Goodwill? I can guarantee a lot of that is not fair trade. There’s a lot of factors to consider, so it’s not as black and white as you make it out.
However, if you’re looking for a bible based answer, we shouldn’t be getting overly hung up on clothes anyway:
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Matthew 6:27-29
NO. It has nothing to with the fu**ed up Christians. Its a matter of morality of decency of whats right… Thats why your faith based President is busy selling out your country to other countries that don’t have to respect these protective laws so they can make a lot of money.. Thats why this faith based gibberish is a bunch of crap.
Oh come on how much time do you think we all have in this life. Not enough time to check up on everybody who produces things.
A Christian would probably decide for themselves as most live in denial who knows.
As an American I suggest you buy American and not worry about it.
As a moral and ethical person no matter of what religion, I think it is important to purchase items that are produced in an ethical manner that is fair to to people producing it. Whether that be clothes, jewelery, food, etc.
Is it OK to buy a diamond when people are made to be slaves and could be killed for the rock? Absolutely not! When children are forced into slavery to make shoes, is it OK to buy them? No it’s not. When women are locked into sweat shops to sew designer items should that designer be rewarded? No, they shouldn’t. It isn’t possible to know all of these things first off, but if you find out, then I think you do have an obligation to take a stand and not support those companies that are advancing off the backs of people that they have broken down and enslaved.
Being christian dosnt atomaticly make you a good person. Yes, idealy we shood all buy only fair trade clothing. but does that mean that poor people cant be christians?
Every thing is choices, and in the end the only important choice is whether to let god into your heart or not, so things like this dont mean that much.
not only that, but if you go to South africa, into the black only places, poverty is everywhere, there all dying, but there still happier than any of us!
NO
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 18:25)”
whear what now?