Fer it or agin it, almost everbody’s got sumpm t’say about religion. Funny how they start fights over it, when the gods of most religions are said to be for peace. Back home, most people we knew went to preachin’. At’s whut they called it, people aroun’ here call it church. At’s most people, bu’tat don’t mean’eyr right about it.
There’s surveys at say religion is declinin’. But seems t’me it’s jist changin. At feller Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, writes about it all the time, has a honorary degree from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University. Time has a lotta articles on it, ditto the New York Times. So it’s purty well spread out in whu’tay call mainstream media.
They say that if they won’t no religion, people’d invent one. At’s been said for a long time. Some Atheists say at’s their worst problem when’ey’re tryin’ to convince the rest of us that there ain’t no God. Now I find that ebm though there are already plenty of religions, they’s people at invent more uv’m anyway.
Jist lookin’ around, I found this’un at purty well takes the cake: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism. Now regardless of how silly that is, somebody spent a lotta time makin’at up. They got it on Wickidpedia an everthang!
Now this gang don’t mean no respect for religion by doin’iss. Fact ‘ey jist wanna make fun of it. But don’t they realize ‘eyre jist givin’ it more publicity? An’ publicity is everthang. Jist ask some’a them TV preachers. Whutcha thank ‘ey spend all them millions on TV fer? They’d tell ye, it’s t’save lost souls. But some people might thank it’s to dig up all at money at’d be lost t’them if ‘ey didn’t spend all at money on TV. It takes money t’make money. At’s whu’tay say.
But d’ye think they ever wonder if grubbin’ f’money on TV might be whut makes a lotta people say they don’t want nuthin to do with religion? Ebm though they seem to have a built-in need for some kind of god?
Hoo-w-e-e. All at deep thankin’s jist too much f’my little country brain. I gotta turn iss over to some philosophy dude. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson. He once said that “A man is a god in ruins.” Nature (1836). Now ain’tat jist about right?
