Soul Refinancing Offer
Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by Brad in Religion | Twitter: @bradhart |
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From the bowels of Hell and boardrooms of Wall Street a plan was hatched to steal your soul and economic freedom, but if you just show up at church and dip into your pocket to pay for some good works you can refinance your tired old soul. That is the bullshit the American religious establishment wants you to believe. Don’t buy into it without reading all the disclaimers, small print, and making sure you get a legally defensible written guarantee with the names of a few good lawyers specializing defending idiots.
From Reuters:
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – From billion-dollar ponzi schemes to bad mortgages and pay-to-play dealings by public officials, some are asking: Is there a crisis of ethics in America?
The swirl of corruption, fraud and greed stretching from Wall Street to Main Street has many U.S. church leaders saying the answer is a resounding yes — America is facing not only an economic meltdown, but also a moral one. And they are rushing to bring flocks back into the fold.
I actually agree that there is a problem with ethics, but the religious establishment isn’t going to want to hear my thoughts on the subject. First off, herding the sheep back to church and letting them graze together is not going to fix the situation. Secondly fleecing the sheep by those telling them it was for their own good won’t change the situation.
“Honesty is honesty. It doesn’t matter if you are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, whatever. A lot of these debacles we’re seeing can be traced and sourced back to a lack of good old ethics,” said the Rev. Jerry Johnston, who this month launched a 12-part series of sermons on ethics at First Family Church in Overland Park, Kansas, which has about 5,000 members.
Johnston is one of a number of religious leaders and scholars who say the current spate of troubled times are an opportunity to lead more Americans into church pews and to prayer.
I do so love it when the religious establishment talks about honesty. There isn’t a more corrupt dishonest institution in the world than organized religion. No surprise they preach honesty, but are unable practice the same thing. Having read the literature from the big three religions and some of their off shoot cults, I am sort of glad most of them don’t actually hold faith to their sacred words. If they did we would be mightily fucked.
If the religious establishment, including this fucknut from Missouri, want me to believe they value honesty, I want a little from them. I want them to stand up and say we don’t know anything about god for sure, including if he exists, but we want you to come to church so we can increase our power base through you. It will be okay if they say we don’t know but we have faith, but the “we don’t know” clause must be included.
If they claim to have special knowledge about the existence of god that can be proven, I want them to openly and honestly share it with us. I want a qualified body of scientists and laymen alike to test their so called proof. If they can prove it I am sold and will call up The Pope and personally beg forgiveness and ask for absolution. I will even throw in the towel and go celibate. More importantly if they can prove their is a god to my standards, I will do something harder than go without sex. I will stand up in front everyone I have ever called a foolish idiot and say I was wrong.
Furthermore where this crusade for seat fillers will fail greatest is on the things the will bandy about most. The will start with preaching hope that things will get better when there are enough seats filled. Pretty soon things will start to get better for some of the flock, who will testify they had hope and things got better. Pretty soon those people stop coming to make room for people without enough hope or because their life no longer seems like it sucks so bad. The next thing they will preach is how those people are lost in the world again, and that the flock should use their power of persuasion to bring them back. At first they will see it as a mission from god, but as soon as most of them see how those who aren’t giving up Sunday mornings, Wednesday evenings and part of their paycheck to god are doing they too will quit going too. Last but not least the god bringers will use patriotism on their flock and tout the American Dream. That is the biggest mistake of all.
When you inspire Americans with the American Dream, they don’t think what can I do for my country. They don’t say what can I do for my neighbor. They don’t say what can I give to the church. The American Dream is just that, a dream. It is a dream every American has about how they can improve their lot in life. Americans who dream big remember that they are the ones doing the dreaming. The remember they aren’t there to be sheep counted at night by greedy shepherds. They remember their dream to take control of their own life, not be led about like lambs to the slaughter.
Now is a time of change in this country. We have a new president who just a generation ago would have been the pipe dream of minorities everywhere. He dreamt the American dream and so did they, and they achieved their dream without any divine influence. It is time for Americans to wake up and cast off their religious overseers and start to dream on their own and for themselves.
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