Somebody
Goofed
By:
Pete Phillips
February 15, 2005
Remember that last article about a Christian
booklet? Well I found another one. To give you some back
story about them, they're religious recruitment pieces that are
designed to bring people to Christ. There seems to be no particular
religion that Christ is associated with though, and individual worship
is just not good enough. It seems that the Bible is what this guy
likes, and that's why you're religion is wrong-- it's been tainted
by human beings. Then again, humans did have to write the Bible,
right? But maybe it was God working through them? Nevermind-- I
can't wrap my mind around this guy's logic. Without further adeu,
from the man who brought you "Allah
Had No Son," "Love
the Jewish People," and "The
Death Cookie," I give you the much weaker, "Somebody
Goofed."

We start out with a dead Bobby. According to page
one, Bobby OD-ed on speed. It's sad, but if the speed didn't catch
up to him, the huffing would have. Our main character is the boy
next to the priest. Who's the priest? Duh, the guy in the black
jacket. Anyway, there's an old guy coming up who talks about how
Bobby will be judged by God and if he wasn't saved he'll be lost
for all eternity. That's long.

Our priestly man is here to set the old guy straight
though. He contends that God's more loving than vengeful, but we'll
see who's right. Our man in black starts yelling at the old guy,
who graciously concedes the fight and gives the kid a book.

The dude in black, after this frame,
pushes the old guy and rips up the book. The kid needs to calm him
down. They both settle that the man was "a little off"
and that they should move on. Ironically, we come to this next frame:
Now who gives in to this? The kid is
driving, despite looking very young early on. The man in black says
"Go ahead, you can make it!" And, in this region, where
they have no railroad blocks to protect their citizens, they speed
up and get smashed by a train. Where do you think they're heading?

Yep! Hell. The kid sure wishes he would've
accepted Christ, despite the fact that he never got instructions
on how to actually do that, and now he's in hell. He is so bold
as to actually try to accept Jesus now, but the man in black reveals
that it's just too late. And in case you didn't get it from me calling
him the man in black-- not Johnny Cash--

The kid was tricked by the devil! How
anticlimactic. If you're the devil one would think that you'd take
more pleasure in tricking the righetous than a little kid who happens
to know how to drive. And I really don't understand the definition
of "personal savior," and how that differs from savior,
but hey, more power to this guy. There's a nice little prayer in
the back that we should pray now too. What more can I say? This
guy provides tons of fun. 'Til next book...
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