religion and state

November 17th, 2008

We got ourselves a little chapel down at the South End.  It’s non-denominational, which means, I guess, they haven’t got money either.  Every Sunday they ring the bell they took from the old schoolhouse and call the flock to pasture.  My cronies in the South End String Band don’t attend real regular.  Like most musicians, getting up by 10 a.m. isn’t natural for em, but I notice most religions must feel like it’s important to make hard working folks like us get out of bed early.
 

     If I was a Preacher, I’d figure let the congregation sleep in, come on down when they’re all rested up and alert.  But it isn’t my show and the church probably has got its own reasons.
 

       You talk about separation of church and state, we used to vote at the chapel.  Nobody seemed to care back then, but still, it isn’t like we were Pilgrims, and finally some atheistic pinko commie liberal pervert must’ve took offense so we started voting down at the Fire Hall, more secular I guess.
 

     We hear a lot of commotion from up north aways about prayer in schools and religion getting mixed into government and on and on, pretty heated up stuff.  People take their religion fairly serious, I’ve noticed, and other people’s they’d like to take somewhere else.
 

     I’m as religious as the next fella.  I want to go to heaven but I’m not in any particular hurry to die, which makes me think deep down all of us are hedging our bets.  Life’s a gamble, but only a fool likes to draw to an inside straight ….

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