Christ has Risen - - COME ON DOWN!!

The economic situation we face has been called a recession. Due to it's severity I think recession is an understatement and depression is an exaggeration. I prefer to call it a recessipression - some kind of special bit of hell between the both. Apparently, this recessipression has hit even the Churches. This morning, Churches everywhere offered incentives for attending their services. Yes incentives. Remember when the fear of eternal damnation was enough motivation to fill the pews on the biggest holiday in Christiandom? Not anymore. Now it takes the chance to win one of these ..... new cars!

The prizes ranged from $500, Nintendo Wii's, Xbox Kinects, Flat screen televisions, Fender guitars, skateboards, free gas and 15 cars.

They should just put an Altar on the Price is Right stage. I can see it now. Marsha Blake, come on down, you're the next contestant on the Christ is Right! The music would kick in, a modern remix of the Price is Right tune mashed with Hymn 57 from your Hymn Book thing on the back of the pew in front of you. Marsha snakes her way through the 15 people that sit between her and her chance at a sea doo and eternal salvation. People that don't even know her high five as she runs down the aisle. Marsha uncomfortably tugs her t-shirt down over her muffin top so we can read her iron-on-letters that say Michigan loves Jesus! She makes it to her place in salvation row and gets an opportunity to bid on a pair of his and her's tennis rackets only to bid out-bid by one dollar and since this was the last chance at contestants row Marsha's soul is damned forever and the asshole that bid $481 ends up winning a place in heaven, a Winnebago, a 7 room tent and new carpeting.

I'm getting tired of saying or thinking the following words but really, what has our world come to? I am amazed, on a daily basis, by the state of our society. Isn't the practice of giving away prizes for going to church just the same as the money changers in the temple? What would Jesus do? I would love to think he'd flip out and turn over the contestant row podiums, and spin the big wheel so fast that it rolls off of it's hinges and takes out the Plinko Board.

Happy Easter