Quote Originally Posted by artificer View Post
Italics are mine-
I guess my promblem with it is that it's the idea of one person assigning such a HUGE meaning to a tartan without at least some voice from the people who would be covered by said tartan's "meaning". Without consent of those who have had this tartan "assigned" to them, it's essentially a personal tartan.

I could design a tartan and say "this tartan represents everyone who loves pickles", but unless that tartan is recognized as such by at least a fair proportion of "pickle-lovers" it is a personal tartan representing MY love of pickles.

I think if the OP wants to design a tartan to represent Christian (generic) faith, he's more than welcome to do so, but there should be some understanding that, for other than the people who might buy the tartan, it won't mean all that much.

Something relatively trivial being represented by a tartan (like a shared love for the C'thulhu mythos - and yes I know I'm inviting disaster here :cthulhusmiley: ) is a bit different than trying to make a tartan to "represent ALL of Christianity in all it's forms". That's a pretty HUGE group of people with fairly divergent attitudes to try to impose one person's design upon - especially without their knowing.

If the tartan represented "X-mark's General Christian Fellowship - all denominations welcome" Group, then THAT would make sense. But to try and encompass 2000 years of history of a multi-pathed faith that has frequently found itself at loggerheads with itself is a task that MIGHT just be a bit too grand.


Please note that the above is not meant to be a discussion of religion per-see, but to illustrate the gigantic scale of undertaking that the OP has proposed, and the personal vs UNIVERSAL nature of a tartan's assigned meaning.
This is just my opinion, and carries no more weight than the paper it's not printed on.

ith:
Thanks, Scott, as I think you hit on a really important point, here... pretty much the same thing I was trying to get across when I mentioned why I named the tartan I designed after myself. You said it better than I could have though, for sure.

But yes, designing, naming, and registering a generalized "Christian" tartan almost seems... presumptuous, come to think of it.