Yuck to both. But if it was perfume, museum, or death, I would go to the perfume, because at least that isn't promoting crap science.

Oh man, I totally want to smell like the Bible. There's no better way to get laid!

Oh ew. EWWWWW. Goodness me. Smell like a Virgin or promote fiction as fact? Gotta go with the perfume -- will it regrow my hymen?
There really is very little that baffles me more than the misappropriation of science. From the Nazis (oops -- I think I'm breaking some blog rule) claiming scientific reasons why white people should rule the world to abstinence-only nuts giving us the scientific reasons we should all close our legs to this "Science supports the Bible" crap. If you don't know anything about science, you shouldn't be allowed to use it to enforce your morals on other people. (Ah...it's taking me right back to high school...those were the days....)

Come on, everyone, take a whiff. Do I smell holy yet?

I love how the company that makes Virtue is advertising with nekkid ladies (or at least nekkid-shouldered ladies) and is sponsoring the Miss Anaheim Scholarship Pageant. Nothing like a little "be a virgin, but be sexually pleasing and available to men!" to go with your biblical sexay-juice.

Also, they claim this scent is related to the special aroma that holy people, like Jesus, supposedly exuded.

As someone who is minimally familiar with the Bible, it looks like most of the ingredients were mentioned in the Song of Solomon--a sometimes pornographic love poem (don't tell me it's an allegory for man's relationship with God, I've considered it and it just freaks me out). Oh, and all the stuff that the Kings brought to anoint Jesus. So you'll be royally sexay, in a biblical way, if you use it. I wonder if htrowing all that stuff together actually smells pleasing?

I was going to say much the same thing as legallyblondeeze; the perfume supposedly promotes purity, but is advertized using women who are bare to their breasts, and the site sponsors not only Miss Anaheim but Miss California as well. It's also interesting that, in describing the scents that they combined to make the fragrance, they start with apricot and say, "the true forbidden fruit!"

Umm... isn't that sort of antithetical to virtue? It's also amusing that they use fig, which is a candidate for being the "forbidden fruit" referred to in Genesis, you know, the one that got all us womens doomed into painful, dangerous childbirth for all eternity for the sin of self awareness.

I suppose they're going for a sort of angelic whore theme, which isn't exactly anything new in terms of gender politics.

"Check out Salon's tour of the (creation) museum, where they found one room dedicated to condemning abortion and homosexuality."

I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time getting past this. What do abortion and homosexuality have to do with creationism?

I mean, even if you believe that the first two are bad and the last one is right and true... what exactly do they have to do with each other? This is like the Museum of Natural History having a display on evolution with a special room condemning the Inquisition. Serious non-sequitur alert.

And the perfume people need a proofreader. "A simple whiff of it's fragrant essence," indeed. Hmph.

But in answer to your question... I vote for the Creation Museum. It could be really hot to make out with my girlfriend in the "homosexuality is evil" room.

It's no Meryl Streep's Versatility: "Smell Like Streep for Cheap!"

You know who knew about smelling good? People who wandered around the desert with their livestock. Back then even the cleanest courtesean would probably be pretty ripe by our standards, and any 'biblical' perfume recipe would be working with this in mind.

Wait...looks like they get that:

All this is complemented by Virtue’s tenacity. Perfume yourself in the morning or afternoon and Virtue’s fragrant aura will still be with you well into the evening and, depending on your skin type, still be lingering the next morning.

Virtue...because it's too special an occasion to go about reeking of goatskin.

I'll take neither. I enjoy my heathen scent:)

I'm with you Kyso!

"Dude, check out my new scent!"

"Ewww, you smell like you slept in a manger!"

"Exactly the effect I was going for."

I choose the museum b/c I just can't believe that something like that can be real. It makes me so angry.
I live in one of the most technologically dependent countries in the world (America), yet there's this movement of scientific denial. I'm not just referring to the v. obvious museum of creationism. Look at the state of our science programs in schools or how many people graduating with degrees in scientific fields. We're utterly dependent on technology that we don't understand, which is a recipe for disaster.
Hopefully, this museum will solely attract fundamentalist lunatics. I'll be severely pissed if I hear about children taking class trips to it. My class trip to the Museum of Natural History in NYC was absolutely a changing point in my life. It made me love science, especially dinosaurs, evolution, & paleontology. That, and taking a class that taught critical thinking and assigned awesome books like The Mismeasure of Man gave me an absolute love of and wonder inspired by science.
All I can do is laugh when I see dinosaurs portrayed next to people. Yes, t-rex's were vegetarians. It's like they've never seen a carnivore before.
What bothers me is that they act like scientists are trying to take away their faith. You never see scientifically-minded people going into a church saying, "This is wrong, you're wrong!" Yet they think they have the right to influence our curricula (Is that the right plural?) & scientific policy.
That, & science doesn't eliminate wonder. I find the world more wondrous the more I read about it. The idea that our planet is just one tiny point of light in the universe absolutely blows my mind.
Stephen J. Gould & Carl Sagan must be spinning in their graves.
Sorry for the extra long post.

Scary, scary, scary!

I swear, it is things like this that make me want to convince open minded liberals to have lots of children so that the religious right wing does not get that much bigger than us!

Isn't the idea of perfume to make you more appealing to the opposite sex? Are they only selling this stuff to married couples?

Hey, virtue in a bottle! Now I don't need the real stuff!

Wait, it's $80 USD? Plus tax and shipping? Nah, not worth it.

I'd go to the "Creation Museum" if I thought that I could pull off a routine like that portrayed in Something Positive's Fred at the Hell House storyline.

Isn't the basic purpose of perfume to make you more attractive to the opposite sex? Which makes me wonder, are they only selling this to married women?

I'm unfortunate enough to live in Kentucky, about an hour and a half away from the museum. Some friends and I are planning a little day trip up there, just so we can be horrified and disgusted, and hopefully manage to stir some shit and piss people off in the process.

LoL Lacy, have fun.
If I lived near there I'd do the same thing. I'd love to go flyer it with issues of Skeptic magazine. I'd have James Randi as the keynote speaker.

I did not know that one could buy virtue.
What is the price of chastity or the cost of pride?
And all this time I thought these were metaphors.
I wonder how much integrity costs.

i heard about the creation museum earlier today.
My sister and I want to go wearing Darwin shirts.

Damn, the creation museum made adam and eve HOT!

I also love the slogan of the creation museum- "PREPARE TO BELIEVE"

Like its going to be some kind of assualt or unpleasant, forced experience- er, wait what am I saying? duh!

Wow, I never thought the Museum of Nonsense would make it onto Feministing, cool!

Unfortunately, right now I live in Cincinnati, a brief 20 minute drive from the creation museum. It's a really fantastic, huge, special effects chamber in which they use the Bible to prove the Bible. It's not science. I'm in a group that worked on the corresponding protests -- we don't care if they want to spend $26M on a theme park, it's their right, but they're passing this crap off as science, and it's really not at all. The animated cave people walking with dinosaurs have Flintstones-like jewelry, for crying out loud. They have ample parking for buses (but of course they're not targeting children!) and from what I understand they have scared the bejeezus out of the farmer whose property borders the museums.

So, I'll take the perfume. It's four times as expensive, but I don't give a shit what the bottle says as long as it smells good. And it beats brainwashing!

Adam & Eve are looking pretty hot in that exhibit!
I wonder who they got to give them the full body waxes?
...probably not the vegetarian T-Rex.
They've only got those little arms, you know.

Creation museum, hands down, just as long as I was allowed to take a picture of myself giving a thumbs up in every room. I'm still working on the bottle of enchanting French perfume my ex-boyfriend got me, even though it must make me smell like a dirty, stupid whore compared to this Virtue stuff.

I must be reading something else into the "Virtue" perfume because while I am aware that virtue=chastity in many Western cultures, nowhere do I see any indication that this is what they're talking about on that website (if someone could point me to this I'd be thankful). They're talking about virtue as a spiritual essence, as courage, as the opposite of vice (which they never define). It seems pretty open to me and while it is hard to trust religious organizations, why not make some perfumes based on what's in the Bible? Go ahead, as long as they're not pushing it and their agenda on me then let them have their "Virtue" perfume. I'll stick with my "Fallen" and "Lilith" scents from BPAL.

As to the Creation Museum. Talk about utter bollocks. Eve and Adam look like department store mannequins. Where's Lilith when we need her?

Ooo... I want to participate in lesbian prostitution in that museum. And all the profits will go to the funding of abortions, of course. Oh, and party hats. Can't have lesbian sex and abortions without party hats.

Oh, church-sheep... I'd be sad if it weren't so funny!

Werechick: Thread over. You win.

Roro86: It's called Godwining the thread. You Godwin'd it within 3 posts, which is fairly impressive. :)

Did you read the "DIVINE INSPIRATION" behind Virtue...
Oh my gosh it makes one puke.

As does the "Creationist nonsense"

This is my favorite bit:

"They all had to exist at the same time because they were all made on the same day. There may not be any fossil evidence showing dinosaurs and people in the same place at the same time. But it is clearly written that they were alive at the same time."

Are we talking about science or the Flintstones? Ohhh, right. The Flintstones. Yabba dabba doooo!

I bet there's a bible verse specifically against things like perfume, right next to covering your hair and shutting your trap.

the comments on this post are great! i'd have to go with the perfume, too.

i'm also in cincinnati and honestly, i'm not surprised that something as ridiculous as the creation museum is so close. i need to move back to a blue state!! :)

Wow, I guess you could dab on some of that before you have some of this truly head-exploding site:

http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/

I used to live in Lexington, and what bothers me just as much as the sexist issues is that this museum is giving the folks of Eastern Kentucky a bad rap. Not everyone who lives in the mountains is a bible thumper or snake handler. Why couldn't this $27 million have gone to education or medicine?

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(that was my head exploding)

I honestly don't know what do say, Anna Trueblood . . . that was the weirdest site ever. Who knew. I'm still trying to get my mind around the front page header: "Christian Domestic Discipline: Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage." It sounds like a kinky role-playing sex movement to me (but what do I know).