View Full Version : Faith vs. Greed
SurahAhriman
2005-12-07, 06:44
So, this Christmas season, two of the biggest influences in middle America will butt heads. One, will be proven a lie.
On the one side, over 80% of Amricans claim to be Christian. These are the people who put "moral values" on exit polls, protest aboortion clinics, and voted wholesale for state amendments banning gay marriage. Numerous church advocacy groups are calling for a boycott on stores they believe are persecuting them by "neutering" Christmas by referring to it as the "holiday season", such as Target and Macy's, in the finest tradition of the Montgommery bus boycott.
On the other side, we have the propensity middle America has expressed, time and time again, for the frantic need for mass consumption.
Who will win? Will Target be shown the error of it's ways? Or will America prove that it only cares about faith when it doesn't really have to do anything? If so, will they accept this, or claim to be GOD WARRIORS anyway?
Totse, what do you think?
SonOfABunny
2005-12-07, 07:24
Greed and money will always win. Petty things like religion are inconsequencial unless you were brought up in a hardcore religious community like Iraq or where the amish live. Over time, as people are exposed more and more to what they should have like that new sports car or TV, they will give in and become part of what 99% of America has become today- Greedy misers.
ArgonPlasma2000
2005-12-07, 07:30
Your statistics have been fucked in the ass with a baseball bat. You betta check dat shit, nigga.
I never thought to put Iraqi Muslims on the same page as the Amish...
When I picture either one of these demographics - Christians and consumerists - I am forced to imagine the same archetypal mongrels - pock-marked chain smoking women, white socks peeking out of K-mart kickers and covering the heel-straps of stretch lycra pants, belly-apron wobbling from side to side with each cumbersome, waddling step, and the stained-undershirt wearing, six-toothed sanitation-department rejects with untied workboots and stale aluminum cans of Bud Light in the back of their unused and overpriced pick-up truck.
Hopefully, when both these forces butt heads, their brain stems snap.
If the consumerists win, corporations have that much stronger of a grip on the reins of the modern world, which brings the world further to ruin. Nothing to be done about that.
If the Christians succeed, and the stores somehow change to accomodate, I will begin picketing churches on the belief that they are persecuting us by neutering pagan Yuletide by referring to it as the "Christ mass."
Which will give me something to look forward to.
Slave of the Beast
2005-12-07, 21:09
The vast bulk of Christians I've know are stinking hypocrites.
Christianity seems to propagate them like weeds.
But with the influence of the Catholic Church I suppose it's to be expected.
ArmsMerchant
2005-12-07, 21:40
Don't forget, plenty of Xians interpret the part of the Bible where God says something about humanity's having "dominion over the earth", as license to rape and pillage the environment.
Thus thier greed for, say, oil and gold (BTW, gold mining is REALLY fucking up the planet lately--but we partly have rich assholes in India to thank for that, and they are Hindu) is thought to be approved of by their deity.
SurahAhriman
2005-12-07, 21:48
quote:Originally posted by Tyrant:
If the Christians succeed, and the stores somehow change to accomodate, I will begin picketing churches on the belief that they are persecuting us by neutering pagan Yuletide by referring to it as the "Christ mass."
Which will give me something to look forward to.
I love irony, and throwing words back at people. Especially when it's true. Count me in.
Sounds like a plan, brother. I'll start on the Wickermen, you scrounge up some virgins; we're having a Pagan Party!