Christianity today

I don’t have much to say in favor of Christianity so the fact that it’s bigger doesn’t mean much to me. I suppose it’s better for the Christians though, instead of being fed to the lions they can make atheists pray with them in the schools. Oh and we have to say ‘under God,’ when we say the pledge of allegiance (which was written by a socialist). I remember when that first went in when we were in grade school, and as a matter of fact when I had to join in with the pledge as a substitute, there was always just a second’s hesitation to remember to add the ‘new’ phrase.

And I think there is plenty of diversity in churches today, the Catholics, the Unitarians, the hard shell Baptists, the gay friendly, the out and out bull goose loonies, the tepid Methodists. Those Catholics though, I have to tell you, have always spooked me, the hats, the robes, the candles, the gross statues. My Hoosier guests of last week always want to see the interior of some big church, and I always feel a little relieved when we leave the place and I can breath in that fresh secular air.

Everybody in KBW would have to be a KBW New Man. We would not tolerate traitors who would ruin it for everybody else. I suppose there would be some diversity, you could prefer the Cubs to the Sox, chocolate to vanilla, baseball caps to fedoras. But anytime you were called on to defend your beliefs in the crucible and you refused, it would be off to reeducation camp with you.

To be a little more serious, that diversity vs mono culture is a sticky wicket. People can speak their own language, wear their own clothes, sing their own songs, but if they want to use drugs in their religious services, or do that female circumcision, or refuse to take off their

burkhas for their drivers license photos, there are problems. Probably these things are best determined on an individual basis.

Remember when we were young and they always spoke of the melting pot, and now you dare not mention that, you have to talk about the taco salad. It was a screwy thing in education school which was full of its own strain of political correctness, you were supposed to take concern of somebody who was different, but you had to treat him the same as everybody else, but you shouldn’t treat everybody the same, because they are different, it was just this circular thing, that they sort of wanted to talk about, but then they didn’t, it didn’t make any sense. The final message was that you were supposed to celebrate diversity, but they didn’t want to talk about it how you did that.

How about if everybody gets to have their own holiday and parade but the next 364 days they have to act like everybody else?