The Baptists’ holiday mailer:
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring your fear of God!
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring your fear of God!
The Catholics’ holiday mailer:
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring your checkbook!
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring your checkbook!
The Mormons’ holiday mailer:
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring someone to recruit! And a casserole!
Come to church this Christmas Sunday. Bring someone to recruit! And a casserole!
I decided to share some gross stereotypes of a couple of my favorite churches to help spread some holiday cheer. There's always some element of truth in humor, but there's always some amount of misunderstanding in stereotypes. I also realize this sample is limited to just Christian churches but I think it’s still not quite politically correct yet to poke fun at Middle Eastern religions, and I’m less familiar with Eastern religions. And I’ve never even heard of the Zuni’s religion*.
I actually have some very strong beliefs about life and religion, but I think most people who talk to me don’t realize it. I tend to be fascinated in other systems of beliefs and in finding out how different peoples use their beliefs to make themselves better. That comes in part because I really don’t appreciate people telling me what a crappy person I am because I attend Church X without giving me any other reason for being crappy. Fortunately I’ve found that this isn’t a common practice of all people of any given religion, and I’ve more often found that most people are pretty cool with you no matter what you believe [sincerely].
* Actually I learned a very little bit about it from one of my first anthropology teachers who lived at Zuni for a while.
* Actually I learned a very little bit about it from one of my first anthropology teachers who lived at Zuni for a while.
