A story from the Washington Post ( July 11 ) warns us about
an evangelical tactic worthy of the gin-soaked mind of the fictional
preacher Elmer Gantry : " God Speaks - from some 10,000 billboards
nation wide.
The billboards will remind us -for example- that God exists
and if we take his name in vain He will "make rush hour even longer ".
For the soberly religious ( I don't smoke, thank you ! ) this
outdoor advertising is a striking example of taking HIS NAME in vain.
Imagine treating God as the Marlboro Man - with an attitude.
What if heaven is no more real than Marlboro Country ? What
a disappointment for hordes of religious junkies !
Seriously , the world would be a better place if more people
accepted the social wisdom of the Ten Commandments. But vulgar,silly
billboards are not the place to remind the masses of the sacred. Give
me that real old time religion . Give me the elegant and inspiring
cathedral of Middle Age Europe to remind me of lost divinity.
The delirious masses of the new millennium seem no more worthy
of immortality than the lowly cockroaches . But let us pray !
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