More
Sacrifices. No, the Other Kind.
Jesus. He gets us...
... to kill the heretic.
... to choose a fantasy afterlife over reality.
... to normalize con-men.
... to forget the really creepy parts of the Bible.
... to wage holy wars.
... to go heavily into debt every December.
... to cut off the tips of our weiners.
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When
I go on long bike rides in the late evenings I often like
to listen to the broadcast of major league baseball. It's
an enjoyable slice of Americana that is too often
marred by clumsy propaganda attacks known as "commercials",
the
worst
of which
have to be the "He Gets Us" crappola. The local
team, The Texas Rangers, go so far as to have that phrase
displayed prominently on the pitcher's mound during the TV
broadcast.
"He Gets Us is the official provider of destructive
self-delusion for the Texas Rangers!"
Every time my ears are abused by this ad, which is at least
twice a game, I
think of the version you see at the top of this page. My
version would get more people reconsidering their theological
avocations but I don't have a spare $100 million dollars
handy, like Hobby
Lobby
and
its conservative
ilk, to
force it down the throats of millions of impressionable
youths.
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Today's satirical offering was late as I woke up Monday
morning ready and able to wade deep into the political
mire... except the video card in my computer blew its
brains out some time in the night.
Sad trombone sound goes here.
It didn't take long
to diagnose the problem but by the time I'd effected
repair, which included accidentally mangling one of the
two
spare video cards I kept handy, it was time to speed
off to an
appointment
with my ophthalmologist for her six-month appraisal of
her cataract surgery work on my precious peepers. Which
included a version of pupil-dilation-on-speed that left
me desperate to crawl into a deep, dark hole to protect
my poor little eyeballs from an unusually brutal Texas
summer day for the ensuing six
hours.
And when I finally crawled out, it was come ta Jesus time.
Yee-haw!
=Lefty=
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