The other day I was listening to the local Christian radio station. This is not something I ever voluntarily do on my own. I was riding in a car with a friend who has it on all the time as background noise. Normally it's so low that our conversation drowns it out but this one day something came through loud and clear. I don't know if it was a lull in our gabbing or the volume was higher than usual but what I heard was disturbing. I guess that's the word. It was troubling enough to get me writing about it after a 3 month (or more) writing block.
Apparently I was listening to an advertisement for a business opportunity when this male voice states, “You can't depend on anyone else. Depend on yourself”
Well I wish I had a picture of the contortions my face went into after that. I kept asking myself if this really was the Christian radio station. I probably missed something my friend was saying after that, tuning her out to listen to what came next that might indicate that we were really on pagan radio W-HEL, 92.666. But alas, we were on the real “Christian” radio station.
“You can't depend on anyone else. Depend on yourself”
There you have it. The Neo-Christian philosophy. Short, sweet and to the point. Finally we've succeeded in eliminating Christ from Christianity. Who says religion causes all the worlds problems? Who says we should do away with it? Why not just suck the soul out of it, prop it up in a chair and slide it behind the desk. Place a mic and camera in front of it and run the tape. Religion isn't nearly as dangerous as Bill Maher would have us believe. Especially now in the post modern world. Why it really has a rather nice humanistic ring to it. “Depend on yourself”
And I thought it was just the music I didn't like.
