Broken Radios

Christians see themselves as being tuned into God's radio station, as if every thought they ever had of God, much like every Sunday sermon they swallow in every Christian church, is really a podcast being pumped into their souls from the Holy Spirit.

Our "soul," so the Christian story suggests, is like a radio, that picks up the faint sound of a distant radio broadcast of God's will and his moral laws, transmitting from a radio tower in heaven.

The problem they argue, is that the signal is too attenuated for most people to hear it clearly, and the biggest reason for this impediment is that we were all born as broken radios to begin with.

And why did God make us all into broken radios to begin with?

Well, the Christian would argue it was all our fault, as if God was incapable of making a better human being than the one he had become so disappointed with once before already, that he had decided the only merciful thing to do was to murder nearly all of them with a great flood.  Praise Jesus!

Of course, if we had never fallen from grace in the first place, then every single person who works in the religious industry would currently be unemployed. Man's fallen nature, in other words, is an incredible job creator. And not just with regard to religion, but law and policing and the entire war and prison industry as well. Thank God we are all born sinners, for the economy depends upon it!

We are such flawed radios, by the way, that we have to be taken back to our " intelligent designer" at least once a week, for ongoing maintenance and repair. In fact, it's even a commandment! Even then, however, the Church offers no guarantees that we will ever work correctly; at least, not until after we die, in which case it's too late to file a complaint with the manufacturer or His sales department. 

And the only solution that the sales departments offer for overcoming our inherent design flaws, which religion claims is simply "proof" that we were made by the most "intelligent designer" of all, is for us to insist that our "faith" gives us absolute and even "infallible" knowledge of an "intelligence" that we claim is infinitely superior to our own.

And by simply making such a claim, one "miraculously" improves their ability to pickup God's broadcast. 

Talk about a friggen miracle of faith in technology!