jesus on a velociraptor

...rick warren is playing this inauguration thing for all it's worth...and now it all fits together, doesn't it?
each one used the other--mr. obama got the evangelical vote and ''pastor rick" got the president's face next to his on the saddleback megachurch website, promoting the "inauguration prayer" as a featured video

you know, rick warren is a nice guy, but he had no business invoking the lord's prayer in the inaugural invocation, forcing it on christians and non-christians alike...i mean, what christian ISN'T going to pray the lord's prayer after ''and now as our savior taught us..."
INCLUSIVE OR EXCLUSIVE?
no less than 30% of america was left out of that prayer because it is exclusively christian--the non-christians excluded from saying that prayer are muslim americans, jewish americans, buddhist americans, atheist americans, agnostic americans...which is interesting because christian church memberships are declining at such a rate that by about the year 2042, non-christians will outnumber the christians in the u.s.
BUT WAIT -- THERE'S MORE
pastor rick is not just a christian, he is evangelical ...and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that..except that he's snuggling up to our president and trying to reclaim his lost ecumenical credibility...ain't happenin'...you can't keep eating that cake and have it too...i venture to say most regular christians would never have invoked the lord's prayer at a presidential inauguration...but he's a born again evangelical, and almost by definition is incapable of reaching out without proselytizing...
DO THE NUMBERS
did you know that evangelicals make up only about 7% of the U.S. adult population? do you remember all of that hoohaw rick threw around re prop 8 when he said that 3% of the country shouldn't be allowed to dictate policy to the rest of the country? you mean all gay population needs is another lousy 4% for that?
DO YOU PASS THE TEST
are you an evangelical christian? can you pass rick warren's purity test for church membership?
[gays need not apply]
are you celibate? or a sanctified, married heterosexual?
anti-sex education? anti-planned parenthood? anti-choice?
anti-free-condoms-and-nothing-but-abstinence, even in africa for people who have aids?
anti-stem cell research? anti-scientific evolution? but PRO-the-world-was-made-in-6000-years?
well then, you are an evangelical!
BUT, for all of the stuff above that you DON'T get to do,
you will get at least one really exciting thing:



jesus on a velociraptor! hi ho big green! awaaaaay!
...i'm definitely outside the tent with the uberchristians on this one...
but i think their velociraptor is totally cool

Jesus riding a velociraptor.
Originally uploaded by DarksideHalo