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Chuck 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.
