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

[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."