Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German/Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious to the point of being in bad taste, and also commercially produced items that are considered trite or crass¹.

Kitsch is the term that comes to mind whenever I see cheap, cheesy clip-art gratuitously grafted into a church website.

Sorry folks, but nothing conveys the antithesis of a rich worship experience than to see a website cluttered with Christian cruft in the form of spinning crosses, low-res icons and cliches art.

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