Saved!



I found Jesus today. He was apparently homeless, riding a beat up old K-Mart special through a parking lot with a sign slung under one arm. The sign read “Laborer Seeking Work”, and I assumed he was into carpentry. There was a cross hanging from his neck on a leather strand. The cross seemed to be made of particle board, or maybe extra thick cardboard. He was wearing a long denim dress. There’s a song in all this, I just know it. Something tells me it’s a country song. I have an idea for a chorus:

“Jesus is a transvestite, and that’s OK with me.

“I just need to know if I should call ‘im ‘he’ or ‘she’.

“Jesus is a transvestite, he’s into women’s clothes.

“But you can take it from me, old son, that she’s still one of the bros!”

Yeehaw!

Now that I’ve thoroughly pissed off all my Christian and/or C&W friends and relatives, a change of subject is in order. I just read an article by one Ray Comfort (is that a made up name?), who is handing out revised copies of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” on college campuses. He ripped out three chapters, and rewrote the introduction, all in an attempt to make the book fit in better with his creationist beliefs. I recognize that the copyright is long since lapsed, but to so radically change the content of a book and present it under the original title seems like a sort of intellectual crime to me. Naturally, I commented on his post at length, but that was really just so I could sleep better at night. I don’t actually believe I’ll “reach” him in any meaningful way; he’s either an idiot or a liar, and both are difficult to reason with. For the record, I don’t deny that he has the right to his faith. But to dress it up as science demonstrates a failure to understand the scientific method. Dude, one may not teach faith in a science classroom. How’d you like it if I showed up at your church and gave a lecture on Newtonian Mechanics (with lots of asides about the failure of the Bible to adhere to physical theory)? Sort it out.