All hail Mammon

[unixronin]

I've probably seen this half a dozen times today:

(CBN news article here.  Wonkette's commentary linked behind the image and here.)

Hello?  False idols?  Praying to god to fix the economy?

If this is the best we can come up with, we're boned.

Comments

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

If they were serious about it you'd think they'd at least offer some sort of sacrifice.

Although I think ripping out the still-beating heart of SecTreas on Hamilton's grave would probably work better. Might at least appease one of the Founding Fathers, anyhow.

;)

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

You'd think folks would be skittish about praying to something that even resembles a golden calf. Last time around, that didn't work so well....

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, y'know, a lot of the kind of people who do stuff like this don't pay any attention to any of their purported savior's other teachings, except when it personally benefits them to do so. So why should this be any different?

I have a theory that the louder and more stridently anyone assures you that they're Christian, the less idea they have about what that actually is.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

Well, the golden calf story is from the Old Testament, which this kind of Christian tends to favor.

Your theory makes me think of this poem:

If thou couldst empty
Sir Thomas Browne

If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, "This is not dead,"
And fill thee with Himself instead.

But thou art all replete with very thee
And have such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, "This is enow
Unto itself -- 'twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me."

[mzmadmike.livejournal.com]

(http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh119/mzmadmike/web/?action=view&current=motivator1922095.jpg)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've asked the Universe that question many times. So far, it's failed to answer.

Oddly, this failure to answer reassures my faith in the Universe. I'd be really worried if it did.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

As the saying goes, "You can't make this shit up!"

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

There is little cohesion (or coherence) among the vast array of Christian sects. The "common ground" of the Bible is the typical battleground. I think it comes from focusing more on what it says than what it means. Still, most only know what it says from sermons on Sunday.