Monday, March 14, 2005
My previous hometown, the one I lived in before I moved here in my teens, just got itself on the news: Brookfield, Wisconsin.
I'd like to say it's for a good reason, but it's not. Apparently some guy entered the Brookfield Sheraton hotel, where there was a church service being held in one of the conference rooms, and blew away seven people and himself. Wounded four more.
Not the best reason to find your city in the newspaper.
Look, I'm not saying that religion isn't good. (Well, yes I am, but that's for another time). But when it makes you snap (apparently the gunman, who was on the verge of losing his job, was upset over a sermon that said that misfortunes happen to people because they DESERVE it. This obviously made him believe he wasn't worth anything, so he took it out on the church where he found out he was a nobody), then it's NOT GOOD FOR YOU ANYMORE.
Granted, not everybody goes postal for religious reasons. But look at all the people in just the last five years who've been taken out of the movie we call "earth" due to the beliefs of supposedly "religious" people.
If I was God, I'd call a moratorium. One year.
No one is allowed for one year to mention, pray to, worship, honor, fund, build a church to or even THINK about asking a favor from the God of their choice for ONE YEAR. No festivals, no holidays, all religious TV and Radio, kaput for one year. You couldn't even play "God Only Knows" on the oldies station. All churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, pagan circles, whathaveyou, off limits for 365 days.
In that year we all have to learn how to get along as if this is all that matters, ever.
Then in one year, if everything has been worked out, if people really felt they STILL needed a deity in their life, they could start praying again. But I bet you most people wouldn't.
If any of you reading this ever get the idea in your heads that it would REALLY SHOW THE WORLD something if you went ballistic with a pistol in an amusement park as a tribute to God, or for any reason at all, do us all a favor and shoot yourself in the head FIRST. Then, if you STILL feel like doing something, fire away.
Why do these people always have to SHOOT others to make their point? Why couldn't you see more stories like: "A clearly insane man waltzed naked down the aisle of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Church today, hurling hastily-made cream pies at the priests and altar boys." Just ONCE. That's all I ask.
Well, regardless, Brookfield Wisconsin is a nice place. Don't let the religious loonies scare you.
TT
I'd like to say it's for a good reason, but it's not. Apparently some guy entered the Brookfield Sheraton hotel, where there was a church service being held in one of the conference rooms, and blew away seven people and himself. Wounded four more.
Not the best reason to find your city in the newspaper.
Look, I'm not saying that religion isn't good. (Well, yes I am, but that's for another time). But when it makes you snap (apparently the gunman, who was on the verge of losing his job, was upset over a sermon that said that misfortunes happen to people because they DESERVE it. This obviously made him believe he wasn't worth anything, so he took it out on the church where he found out he was a nobody), then it's NOT GOOD FOR YOU ANYMORE.
Granted, not everybody goes postal for religious reasons. But look at all the people in just the last five years who've been taken out of the movie we call "earth" due to the beliefs of supposedly "religious" people.
If I was God, I'd call a moratorium. One year.
No one is allowed for one year to mention, pray to, worship, honor, fund, build a church to or even THINK about asking a favor from the God of their choice for ONE YEAR. No festivals, no holidays, all religious TV and Radio, kaput for one year. You couldn't even play "God Only Knows" on the oldies station. All churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, pagan circles, whathaveyou, off limits for 365 days.
In that year we all have to learn how to get along as if this is all that matters, ever.
Then in one year, if everything has been worked out, if people really felt they STILL needed a deity in their life, they could start praying again. But I bet you most people wouldn't.
If any of you reading this ever get the idea in your heads that it would REALLY SHOW THE WORLD something if you went ballistic with a pistol in an amusement park as a tribute to God, or for any reason at all, do us all a favor and shoot yourself in the head FIRST. Then, if you STILL feel like doing something, fire away.
Why do these people always have to SHOOT others to make their point? Why couldn't you see more stories like: "A clearly insane man waltzed naked down the aisle of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Church today, hurling hastily-made cream pies at the priests and altar boys." Just ONCE. That's all I ask.
Well, regardless, Brookfield Wisconsin is a nice place. Don't let the religious loonies scare you.
TT
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