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07/06/2004: "Here Come the Christians --- Will You Buy . . ."

Now let me say at the beginning of this rant that I do not have anything personal against any religion or creed. Frankly, I don't give a damn how a person worships nor do I care if they don't. It simply is not my concern. Hey, I have enough on my plate.

What I do very much dislike is people who use being a Christian to sell stuff or to get stuff free or cheap. Duh!

A woman just came to my door. I asked her what she wanted. She started out with a spiel about her granddaughter wanting to attend a Christian school and would I buy some magazines to help out the cause. Of course, that's about all she got out before I said, "No thanks" and shut the door.

To begin with, that was lousy salesmanship. Don't tell me what YOU want --- tell me what you have for me. Maybe, just maybe, if she would have said she was selling some magazines that she thought would be of interest to me, I might have listened because I'm a sucker for magazines, though I buy them from my own affiliate link online. So chances are she probably wouldn't have sold me anyway. But she would sell to more people.

No one gives a damn what you want. All in the world anyone cares about is what you can do for them. People are very selfish. People are self-centered. So when you sell --- and you are always selling --- you never say what YOU want. You only talk about what you can do for the other guy. It's a bitch ain't it?

But beyond that, please don't hide behind being a Christian. I don't give a damn if you are a Christian. If I want to buy something, I'll buy it from a Christian or Catholic or Jew or Athiest. I just don't give a damn.

To me, Christians are sinners who go to a Protestant church. I guess Catholics are Christian too. But whatever, they too are just sinners who go to church. We are all sinners I guess if you believe in sin. We all certainly screw up and hurt people and do bad things. You can call that sin if you want to.

The difference is, if you have enough money, you can buy an annulment from the Catholic church among other things as the Kennedy's do and you can buy the right to partake in the sacraments as John Kerry is said to have done. Divorce be damned if you have enough money.

I've had people call me on the phone and tell me, "I'm a Christian single mother. Can't you lower your fee just for me?" Not no, but hell no! That holds no sway with me I assure you.

We are in a god-awful mess in this world right now because of religion. So my advice is be what you want to be, believe what you want to believe, but don't use your belief to sell or buy or try to make other people believe like you.

Some businesses advertise "We are a Christian Business" to which I ask, "So what?" Am I supposed to be impressed? Am I supposed to trust you more than the guys who don't put that in their advertising? I don't think so.

Bill Clinton claims to be a Christian but I wouldn't want my daughter alone with him for half a second.

Thus ends my duh of the day