October 17, 2005
I'm putting the entirety of Listen and Do up on Flickr 10 pages at a time, and I'll be pointing out a highlight or two as I do so. The scans are fairly large jpegs, for anyone who wants to break out their crayons.
So, the text that accompanies the rest of this page says:
Jesus gives us all our money.
He wants us to thank Him for the money.
He asks us to give one out of every 10 pennies.
This money is for God's work.
He wants us to give other money, too.
Jesus gives us everything that we have.
Let us thank Jesus.
I'm mostly okay with the first part (though part of me thinks, if Jesus gives it to us, but wants some for himself, why not keep it in the first place? It seems less, I dunno, rude that way). But it's the "he wants us to give other money, too" that troubles me - that's awfully open-ended, like a friend who's always short on money who says he only needs a hundred bucks, then throws out "or whatever else you wanna give me" after you hand him over that first cool hunny.
I'm glad that a.) I didn't read this as a child and b.) Jesus only seems concerned with money, and not, say, G.I. Joes or Transformers.
Posted by starlen at October 17, 2005 08:31 AM
Comments
yaaaay! now i have to buy crayons...
Posted by: chris at October 17, 2005 01:41 PM
Is this for Mormons?
Posted by: Alex at October 17, 2005 03:32 PM
Sorry. 7th Day Adventists. That's the ticket.
Posted by: Alex at October 17, 2005 03:33 PM
alex - somehow i missed that. the seventh-day adventist slant explains some of the other stuff that pops up in the book, especially the photos of Mrs. White.
Posted by: starlen at October 17, 2005 03:40 PM
