Editor's note: Amos is a church mouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboards, but he can't operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks — except hyphens and dashes. what would jesus buy boss it seems we re in another — what would jesus do — movement you remember a few years ago there was a spinoff of the wwjd phenomenon with the media and car dealerships asking the strange question — what would jesus drive well now it appears there s a new controversial docu-comedy about the commercialization of christmas the name of the video is — what would jesus buy — featuring a strange character called rev billy and his church of stop shopping gospel choir no boss i haven t seen it yet but judging by the reviews critiques and outlandish comments it s making quite a splash in the world of merry capitalism it debuted in a limited number of theaters across the country this past week but it hasn t made the rounds to bugtussle yet — and probably won t whatever you think of rev billy dressed in a pastoral white collar caterer s jacket and bleached hair he and his choir are on a cross-country tour — a mission for god question mark here boss — to save christmas from what he calls the shopocalypse — pronounced sho-paw-co-lips — which he describes as the end of mankind from consumerism overconsumption and the fires of eternal debt through retail interventions corporate exorcisms and some old-fashioned preaching rev billy reminds his audiences that we have lost the true meaning of christmas the film is a journey into the heart of america — from exorcising the demons at the wal-mart headquarters to taking over the center stage at the mall of america and then ultimately heading to the promised land — disneyland the problem boss is rev billy is not an ordained minister and he doesn t even call himself a christian one reviewer notes he s an actor-turned-activist who took the reverend title to creatively protest america s increasingly excessive consumerism and corporate homogeneity — with starbucks wal-mart and disney being his version of the axis of evil the songs may sound like holy ghost-inspired jesus tunes — complete with robes swaying and hand raising — but the lyrics are more about slamming starbucks than praising god one reviewer says although the film s playfully sacrilegious use of christian forms and traditions may alienate some of us in the church pew underworld some critics have praised rev billy and his crew for bringing back the radical aspect of christ clearing out the moneychangers and some old testament scholars have pronounced his style consistent with some of the ancient prophets of israel another thing boss i really liked rev billy s response to a reporter s question of what would jesus buy in our wacky world of consumerism rev billy simply answered — he would buy less — and give more amos