voting for god
I saw a segment on CNN the other night for a poll that showed American’s approval of … God. He got a spare 52% job approval score. Probably up a few points since the flood during Noah’s time. The President got a bit less. They didn’t give ratings for the Devil, or Hitler, but let’s assume they would be lower, hopefully substantially lower.
Somehow it’s troubling that the Lord God Almighty gets rated at all, much less gets tepid scores in the most religious industrialized nation on earth. He is, after all, the All Knowing, the Creator, the Whole Enchilada. And we puny humans give him barely a thumbs up.
Some talking heads came on later to analyze the data. Tsunamis and starvations probably didn’t help the Lord’s ratings, they said. Bad recession either. If He can create the cosmos, why not some jobs? Raise up those poll numbers, if nothing else.
Maybe God doesn’t worry about his approval ratings. Hard to believe, I know. Most of us seem busy fixing up our Facebook accounts so we’ll look interesting and exciting and sexy to all those network ‘friends’ we barely know but follow their every movie or book or grocery store escapade. Mostly I think we must be supremely bored or insecure to care what people we barely know do or think about us. Maybe we ought to get on with our lives and skip the vote for prom king or queen, move right on to adulthood, build a life worth living without giving a hoot in hell what the Facebook friends are buying or reading or recommending.
Course, here I am giving out probably unwanted advice. Just what you want to hear, right? Next I’ll be telling you what I read and my favorite recipes and where I went this morning. Like you should care?
Oh, and God, if you’re listening with that omniscience of yours, could you maybe put the brakes on this 3-D movie craze? I’m not saying it’ll ratchet up your approval ratings, but, hey, it couldn’t hurt. You might even consider Facebook. Think of it as a cheap computer church. Just don’t take it personal when we don’t ‘friend’ you. Kinda busy here….
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