God’s Making Headlines

A response to my peer Kara’s blog titled “Bite Size Bible?” (http://2306alltexasallthetime.blogspot.com/2007/08/bite-size-bible.html).

The idea of putting Bibles inside newspapers is practical, and apparently, Christian leaders decided to go the way of Internet service providers since America Online had the same idea a few years back. To build a successful and dominate religion, one must think like an Internet service provider. All AOL needed to do was put their software discs in 17 billion newspapers that are widely distributed. If it worked for the largest Internet provider at the time, the same reasoning should be useful for the world’s major religions.

All religions could eventually campaign by purchasing pages next to each other; perhaps, this section could follow the horoscopes. It would not take long for this section to appear much like the current advertisements, and both could be separated into the middle, disregarded, and recycled by those who are bright enough to look beyond a newspaper for spiritual guidance. The less fortunate can continue to buy into whatever Wal-Mart and Christianity happen to have on sale that week. This strategy should convert and save the heathens while they save on some “rollback” prices.

Thanks for the post.