Financially Supporting Cults

I was taking a shower this morning and used some of my Dr. Bronner's All-In-One soap, which has become a favorite soap of mine to use. It is biodegradable, vegetable based, fair trade, organic, multipurpose, no preservatives or synthetics, blahdy bladhy blah, whatever, it works (especially while backpacking and traveling... I recommend the peppermint).

Anyway if you've ever spent more than a second looking at the label of Dr. Bronner's soap you might notice something a little different about it. What you might notice is that a pseudo-cult leader "doctor" has designed the soap. My favorite part about their website is when they call Earth, "Spaceship Earth".
Here's an excerpt from their crazy bottle labels: "Replace half-true Socialist-fluoride poison & tax-slavery with full-truth, work-speech-press & profitsharing Socialaction! All-One! So, help build 4 billion Hannibal wind-power plants, charging 96 billion battery-banks, powering every car-factory-farm-home-monorail & pump, watering Babylon-roof-gardens & 800 billion Israel-Milorganite fruit trees, guarded by Swiss 6000 year Universal Military Training..." Yeah, I don't have it in front of me so I can't tell you the other insane things they talk about.

So that got me thinking... by buying this soap am I financially supporting crazy cults? Which also got me thinking, where is the line on what we buy from whom and how our buying their products supports their bad causes? Wal-Mart supports a TON of things I very much disagree with, and so does Target and Disney and Starbucks and just about any other large liberal company out there. But does that mean we should boycot any and all companies who financially support causes we disagree with? Where do we draw the line?

I have no answer to this, rather I just wanted to post the question and see if anyone had any thoughts on it.

Oh, and it's my 200th post... sweet!