wtf?!

I was randomly clicking through WordPress blogs this morning, when a tag on one post caught my eye: Christian debt help. My jaw dropped, and the ol’ brain started working overtime.

Wha……?! Christian debt help?? I had no idea that Christians could access help with their debt that heathens couldn’t. Is there some kind of religious discrimination going on here?? Perhaps the Mother of All Christian Religions, the Roman Catholic Church, is lending money through interest-free loans to Christians who have managed to end up in a financial pickle. (I do recall from my Economic History lectures, in first year uni, that charging interest in the Middle Ages in England was called usury and considered a sinful practice.)

Honestly, unless you’re talking something along the lines of, ‘Decrease your tithe to the poor and unfortunate from 10% to 5%’, I had no idea that anybody could even link the idea of Christianity (or any religion, for that matter) and reduction of debt.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me, but the whole connection of Christianity and debt reduction is incredibly ridiculous.  A non sequiter, if you will.  The concepts don’t even vaguely go together.  It’s like, well, Christian elephant riding.  Or Christian gas heater usage.  Unbelievable, and stupid.  (Yeah, go on, flame me.  Flame me!  Flame me!  Have I mentioned I’m Roman Catholic??)

Ugh.  The whole concept leaves a bad taste in my mouth.