Sleazy but Christian? Sick of those Ads? (dating, singles, separate)
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For some reason, YouTube has decided I'm single and Christian. You'd think their spyware would have figured out I'm a matronly JG by now. But nooooooo.....
Today, I'm getting ads showing a wedding portrait of a couple who look like he's a graduate of an ex-Gay ministry (but still does drag), and a gal who looks just like him, except she's in a wedding dress. The dude has eyebrows even more 'arched' than hers. And he's got the cutest little ear-bobs, or whatever those stupid things are called. Ear stumps? Ear posts? And, of course, he's got a gallon of grease in his hair (so you can tell he's the Groom? To keep the lice population down? To make his head slippery, in case of attack by face-eating Chimpanzees?).
Another ad has some bleached-blonde skank in a strapless wedding gown, looking desperate and bizarre. Then there's the hunky bald, sunburned, blondish dude who looks like he's fresh out of a meth rehab clinic in Malibu and is looking for a nice gullible wallflower to live off of for awhile (until his 'music career' takes off...ya know... he's working on his associate's degree in 'The Music Business' from Full Sail University, no doubt...).
And if that weren't bad enough, then they have the nerve to tell us that this is where you find out who G-- intends as your mate!!! !!! !!! I am personally offended by their having taken that name in vain. Excuse me, but I thought that's why there's prayer... and churches.
And I am highly amused, considering that this is surely a for-profit enterprise, and its owners are quite possibly members of my tribe.
I remember being at Temple in a Texas city we shall not name. We met some folks who owned a Christian broadcasting conglomerate. They were building a limestone PALACE with the money they were making. When I say 'palace', I'm talkin' big. I'm building a limestone 'chateau'. But a palace it ain't. No domed central rotunda. Under fifty thousand square feet. Brick floors down, scrubbed Cypress up, not Marble and Parquet de Versailles, like theirs. Outside my door, there's an orchard, then a meadow, then forest. Outside their door, there are fountains and parterres and grand allees. When the grandiose gates opened for our car, our sons in the back seat started humming the Beverly Hillbillies Driveway Theme. All this built by faith-filled grannies, sending in their little five Dollar offerings, to "keep the Word on the air". These Christian Dating sites give off the same vibe.
I don't like seeing Christianity cheapened by for-profit sleaze. And I don't like seeing G--'s name being taken in vain.
Anybody else feel this way? Am I wrong in my assumptions?
A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern.
Anybody else feel this way? Am I wrong in my assumptions?
Yes. No.
I'm a Christian myself but one of my favorite similes is: "That guy/gal is phonier than a TV preacher!" Gotta watch where I say it though b/c some people think that anyone who utters the name of G-- must be okay. They forget though that the Antichrist will be coming for G--'s own people. I'm not even much of a churchgoer either but I consider it my mission to separate out Truth from all the lies that are coming at us, all the time, everywhere.
I got an e mail today that came into my regular e mail, not even my spam...something about singles over 50. What?!
Not much gets by a Gmail account.
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