No, its not true...not all of it anyway

Well, as you might suppose, according to this tract…It IS!!!

I was in Scarsdale, NY today and went into the diner near the train station and saw all these things that looked like advertisements for theaters, amusement parks and what not. Then I looked closer and saw references to God, Jesus and other biblical stuff. At first I thought there were merely a few mixed in with the other 50 or 60 advertisements. Then, no, they’re all about Religion. So I grabbed about 30 to see what they were about. Some were amusing, some were really boring:

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The one on the end, called “She said Yes” was written “as Cassie might have told it”. You see, she died in the Columbine High School shootings. She was the girl who was asked by a shooter, “Do you believe in God?” She said “yes”. And this tract is a fictional letter presented to as if Cassie wrote it herself, after the Columbine incident.

But, one of these tracts got to me. After the 50th or 60th time reading how “Someone had to pay for our sins, and God loved us so much that he sent his only son as the sacrificial lamb in our steads,” I realized something. There’s someone else whom God must be obeying…

Think about it. It’s drilled in our heads how God had to send his only son to be offered up as a sacrafice for our sins, but to whom was God sacrificing his son? Normally, mortals sacrafice to the gods. In this case, the God that people worshiped sacraficed his son, but to whom? Not to himself, that would just be silly.

And why did God demand a sacrafice? Normally if someone decides against something, that person can change his or her mind. If God decided that humans must make a sacrafice to atone for original sin, and then decided that he loved humans too much to actually make them sacrafice, you would think that God would say, “okay, I was wrong, you guys don’t have to sacrafice yourselves.” Instead, God decides that someone must still pay the price and sacrafice something, so he sends his only son to do the job. This sounds like it wasn’t God who wanted the sacrafice in the first place…Its beginning to sound like God is just the middleman.

So I’m proposing a new religion: Let’s not worship the middle-man, let’s worship the more powerful being behind the middle man, you know, the guy who actually makes the demands for sacrafices…Or, um, wait a minute. A secret being who demands human sacrafices…oh no…could the being who commands the God of the old testament really be…could it be….Satan?