Your religion doesn’t so much provide you with the
tools and principles to seek the truth about your own existence
as tell you which DVD’s you shouldn’t rent.
Transubstantiation
made all the more confusing with church’s introduction
of tapas.
When
you inquire “What is the meaning of life?” your
clergy opens up the Miriam-Webster dictionary.
Your
prayers are answered with “And how am I supposed to
make that happen? With a ‘magic machine’?!?”
Church
services commence with a Lee Greenwood song.
Your
religion’s origin story beings with the phrase, “You
see, last Tuesday…”
Church
elders repeatedly quote Brit Hume.
All
your loved ones are lame, covered in boils and composed
entirely of salt.
Sacred
texts repeatedly refer to female parishioners as “un-men.”
Typical
rituals include reading “B.C” comics, blaming
Jews and trying to decide who should direct the next film
adaptation of the “Left Behind” series.
You
are told that your religion is the one true religion because
only your religion follows the principles set out in your
religion’s scriptures, which were first created by
your religion’s founders when they devised your religion
to adhere to those very religious principles they penned,
thus proving all other religions must be forgeries and that
since you can’t have a forgery without copying an
original, obviously your religion is the one true faith—as
clearly and plainly stated in the aforementioned religious
scriptures.
All
other world religions cite your core beliefs as “the
seventh sign.”
You
can’t get through a single church service without
sudden fissure in earth swallowing six pews whole.
You
bowl with one of the authors of your religion’s bible.
After
you die you’re sentenced to haunt a New Jersey Turnpike
Nathan’s.
The
primary tenet of your theology can be summed up in three
words—“Go Red Sox!”
You
can visit your God any weekday, between 10 am and 6 pm,
at the shoe counter in Nordstrom’s.
Your
religion believes humankind can be redeemed only with the
right coupons.
Many
of the high holy days seem to revolve around Denny’s
Grand Slam Breakfast.
When
you turn 13 you just get a lousy cake.