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fpbChuck Coulson, the Evangelical writer and former politician, swears that the following story is true:
In 1989, the builders of a tea garden in a San Francisco park inadvertently left a parking barrier behind. Four years of complaints yielded zero efforts to remove the eyesore. Then — and I’m not making this up — a group of New Agers began to venerate the barrier as “a manifestation of the Hindi god, Shiva.” Quicker than you can say “wall of separation,” park rangers hastened to remove the now-sacred eyesore. While the barrier’s worshippers eventually got to keep the object of their veneration, officials insisted that their worship be in private.
Well, there's a way to get a bureaucracy moving, anyway.
In 1989, the builders of a tea garden in a San Francisco park inadvertently left a parking barrier behind. Four years of complaints yielded zero efforts to remove the eyesore. Then — and I’m not making this up — a group of New Agers began to venerate the barrier as “a manifestation of the Hindi god, Shiva.” Quicker than you can say “wall of separation,” park rangers hastened to remove the now-sacred eyesore. While the barrier’s worshippers eventually got to keep the object of their veneration, officials insisted that their worship be in private.
Well, there's a way to get a bureaucracy moving, anyway.
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Date: 2006-02-09 12:51 pm (UTC)For real, I want to know where you got this so I can send it to all my friends.
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Date: 2006-02-09 01:14 pm (UTC)What should I start venerating to get my month of January paid?
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Date: 2006-02-09 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 02:17 pm (UTC)In the other news, one journalist called the Ministry of Agriculture lately, presented himself as an assistant to Father Rydzyk, a chief of violently catholic and xeno-nashionalistic radio station, with which our current gov't has very good relations and asked for a car, 'cause his other one got broken. He got the gov't limousine whisked to his place in a couple of minutes, hand-picked by the Minister of Agriculture himself :)
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Date: 2006-02-09 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 03:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-12 05:24 am (UTC)Note to self: assemble inanimate-object-worshipping kit for next trip to SF.