I went back to my picture file to find just the right image for today's BLOG post... from the cathedral at  Caudebec-en-Caux on the Seine.

GOD’S MATCH FOR YOU…

Coming under the heading of CAN IT GET ANY MORE RIDICULOUS THAN THIS?… I’m here to report that it can and obviously does… repeatedly.  Immediately after the Viagra commercial on the TV news program I was watching this morning, the line-up of ads included a pitch for a service anybody can buy that enlists God…(Well, not just anybody… It’s called Christian Mingle, so presumably Muslims, Buddhists, and Jews need not apply)… as I was saying, Christians can buy God’s help in finding a partner for which the consumer might want to bring along to budding relationships a fresh supply of the medicine that addresses the problem of erectile disfunction. The obvious question is this: If a person has bought God’s help in finding a partner, why not just pay a little extra and get God to solve the old getting it up and keep it up problem.

For me the scariest part of the very real scenario I’m describing is not that I miss those TV ads touting the value of more fiber in my diet by trusting the breakfast of champions to keep me regular but that there are enough of my fellow Americana out there whose magical thinking lets them believe a God who is apparently having a hard time stopping ISS madmen from beheading journalist and AID workers in Syria… and stopping ebola… has time enough on His/Her hands to get involved in a project to find a mate for otherwise luckless Christians.  Notice please that I exercised restraint and used the “ l ” from my English alphabet instead of the “ f ” in that last sentence.

I’m seriously worried.  Midterm elections are coming up fast, and I’m afraid those people who think it is possible to buy or sell God’s help in finding the perfect match for them are the same ones who believe they have a god-given right to own and maintain a personal arsenal… the ones who believe America does not need or want affordable health care for everybody… the ones who think it’s all right to empower corporations and wealthy  individuals to buy elections by pumping unlimited amounts of money into support for candidates and propositions that will make them even richer… and please don’t even hint that I might ought to address the problem by praying about it.