27. shakin’ it - Sick Sacraments
27. shakin’ it Let me quote some things I have recently read: ’An opportunistic artist says extraterrestrial took him for a ride, exhibition to follow. Dorothea Puente chats with me every day through my Ouija Board. Apparition of Hitler found on a Burger Queen window, cries real tears. These are the headlines of unmanly yellow journalism polluting the mind, distracting your attention, deviating from faith. How dare they occupy themselves with the trivial pursuits of pagans, exploited and trumped up to look like the newest sensation? Their cowardliness thrives on our envy, our fear and our anger. We want shock. Shocking, we say and we are shocked, therefore. “People, don’t be fooled. Where is the stern rule of common decency that will smack the jaundiced knuckles of those damned to a meaningless life?” Preacher Dan was going over his notes for Sunday’s sermon for the Temple of Opportunity, New Christian, which h...