I was watching the news Sunday morning before I went into work and there was a story about highway 35. Apparently highway 35 runs from Texas to Minnesota and it is being deemed God’s Highway.
The story went on to show people praying beside the highway. Praying loudly. “Jeeeesus! I ask that you just puuuriffyyyyy! This! Highwaaaay! Lord! I ask that you juust blessss this highway! These people are hollering out their prayers. Jumping up and down with hands raised.
My first thought: Is Jeeeesus deaf? Do these people think that Gawwwd! can’t hear them above the traffic?
The story continues that these Christians believe that sense the highway runs all the way across America that it was a highway talked about in the bible. They quoted Isaiah 35-8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. (KJ version)
As a result they want the booby bars are just off the highway to shut down, and the not so cool bill boards taken down. They believe that highway 35 will be Jeesuses landing strip. They just have to clean it up. Pat Roberts has even jumped on the highway prayer wagon and is encouraging the praying. No surprise there.
Now I’m not bible scholar, but isn’t there a verse in the bible that says you should pray in private, not in public so that people see how ‘good’ you are? I don’t really think that Jeeesus is going to use highway 35 for a landing strip.
Do I really believe that the bible was talking about highway 35? No. I think it’s odd how it just happens that Jesus will be landing in America. To me it seems a bit arrogant. Why wouldn’t Jesus land in Darfur? They really need his help there.
Anyway, I ended up thinking after the story that the Holy Highway was really a bunch of Holy Crap. I then asked Cara if we could get a bunch of our friends together to have a Holy Crap drive on highway 35.
Cara gave me a look that said: Don’t poke the Christians with a stick in their holy cages that keep them safe from reality.
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I’m in for the Holy Crap drive. Just let me know when. I’ll bring cupcakes if it’ll get Cara to go.
Hey, Wow people over there did that?What religion? I mean Christian have lots of domination right..I’m staying in Malaysia and we seldom have those things and the funny part is ‘God is Deaf, LOL!’ By the way you can only found Durian in Tropical country, I thought that you are Malaysia..
You have become my new favorite blogger. Keep up the great work!
As my friend says, “Those kkkkrazy kkkristians!”
Meg, Make the cup cakes she will come. We’ll just set her in the back seat of the car with a plate of them and a glass of milk.
Ceara, I do belive it was all denominations that were participating in the Holy Higway stuff. Malaysia cool. I wish the part of the country I was in was tropical, I’m freezing.
Voenix, you are too kind. Thank you!