Friday, December 24, 2004

Wanna Be Ordained?

Ever wanted to have Rev. added to the front of your name? Well go ahead, it looks like anyone can do it.
Example #1: Rev. Joel Osteen
When accused of not being an ordained (officially recognized) minister the ever smiling, quite possibly animitronic Joel, replied that although he had failed to graduate from a divinity school he was ordained. When asked by what organization, he gladly mentioned it was the church his father had started and he now gleefullly received funds from. Now, it should have been obvious Joel was ordained even though Joel's Website and his church's website mention Joel's name about 500 times more than Jesus' (took me a while to even find Jesus on both) for four reasons:
1) His "church" is really big
2) He's on TV
3) His ever present smile
4) His really nice hair

Example #2: Rev. Idiot on News Show
On a debate show covering a school that was preventing a science class from presenting the theory of intelligent design the guests were introduced as "Special Interest Guy" and "Rev. Guy".
The kicker, "Special Intrest Guy" argued for other theories being allowed, specifically intelligent design, which is becoming more and more excepted by scientist in general, and "Rev. Guy" was against it because it didn't seperate church and state and teach the "overwhelming proof" of evolution. When told the school just wanted to present a well accepted alternate theory that was not held by just Christians, but many in the scientific community, and that God would not be mentioned, the good "Rev." replied, "Yeah, but where do you think all that talk of design will lead?" Yeah, as an ordained minister I'm with ya "Rev." that'd be bad.
Hey "Rev." check out Romans 1:20. It's in a thing called a Bible. They read it at real ordinations.

1 comment:

-dan'l said...

Zing!
I love this place.