@TWoozl
"I think His4Life misses the irony of disbelieving in a tiki god, "knowing it isn't real".
Holiday camp magnate, entrepeneur and British historical & cultural treasure Sir Billy Butlin didn't:
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The above postcard photo images of the 'Beachcomber Bar' at the Butlins Filey holiday camp (most of the other camps had the same too), and as you can see, it had an exotic, tropical isle/Pacific/Polynesian theme to such. Including 'Tiki'-related imagery.
Yet, Sir Billy was a devout C-of-E Christian himself; in all his camps, he provided residents with Anglican and Catholic chapels; the Church of England & UK Catholic Church sent some of their best vicars/priests to minister there, and Sir Billy ensured these clergymen got everything they needed. Post-WWII, Sir Billy had snapped up artworks for a song to decorate certain areas of his camps (especially the 'Whist/Quiet Lounges', dining halls etc); it was later discovered that some of these artworks were Old Masters, and whilst some religious-themed ones were placed in these on-site chapels, others were auctioned and the amounts (£tens of millions in today's money) raised were divided into his donating to myriad charities (and to create his own charitable foundations), expansion of his camps etc, and the rest went towards the upkeep/improvements of said chapels.
So well known was he for his great generosity in charitable fundraising & donating - especially for children's charities (even giving underprivileged/orphaned kids free holidays in his camps) that Sir Billy Butlin, as well as with his contribution to British holiday & leisure culture, is an integral part of the UK's post-war history (in more ways than one - two words: The Beatles); indeed, was the main reason for his being awarded a Knighthood in the first place. The last words carved on his memorial in Jersey being: 'He was never too tall to stoop to help the underprivileged'.
For a Christian, seems he didn't just know they weren't real, but didn't care, that in bars in his Butlins holiday camps, there were 'Tiki gods'. Everyone else who thinks otherwise, nay, objects to such, is being worse than ridiculous.
@Philbert McAdamia
An episode of the anime series "xxxHOLiC" features a 'Monkey's Paw'. That, and the one of a haunted photo which captures the last moments of someone's death, and potential evidence of their murder, is the scariest of the series. Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if this manga's creators CLAMP had been inspired by the late 70s-early 80s TV series "Tales of the Unexpected", especially the first series episodes written by Roald Dahl.
