Now that’s the way to instill Christian Piety
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe has been made into a (shudder) movie, and as can be expected with any story that has even the slightest hint of being christopath propaganda, has been leapt upon by the same set of fundies that made The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre into such a big hit. They're not even slightly bothered by the teeny detail that tLtWtW is a children's book (and a good children's book at that; I must have read the first six books in the Chronicles of Narnia a dozen times each -- The Last Battle, alas, was too filled with Christian defeatism [Gosh! Giving up, bolting for the escape hole, then dynamiting the whole place is just the sort of thing that makes me want to convert on the spot] to withstand more than one reading), and all they're doing is modifying the propaganda push to suit the target audience.
So, instead of genuine replica cross nails (suitable for flagellation and auto-crucifiction!) they've got tiny plastic dolls of Aslan, the White Witch, and the children. And you know that nothing expresses the Christian faith better than cheapo plastic dolls that were made in China.
*shudder*
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Strolling through Newport Market the other day I came across a package that gave me pause, recalling a little jingle I heard on the radio that has stuck with me 'lo these thirty-ought years since stationed on the east coast:
I don't care if it rains or freezes, As long as I've got my plastic jesus, Riding on the dashboard of my car.
(Imus, I think, from the early seventies)