A Dollar A Soul

The other night while waiting for Mark to come home I was in a channel-surfing trance until I came upon a "Christian" station that was having a telethon. The preacher was bouncing and repeating himself because he said it was so good we needed to hear it again. He was talking about sowing seeds and reaping harvests. He said if we have enough faith and believe that we will reap a harvest than we'll get it. If we don't have enough faith we'll be stuck with a cancer or other illness, broken relationships, loneliness, and over all misery. He was really laying it on.

The bad part is that he wasn't the bad part of the whole deal. Across the bottom of the screen there was a ticker. It read, "Give $1,000 to save 1,000 souls. Give a dollar a soul." Of course he never actually substantiated that our money would indeed pay for the salvation of a soul. I'm not exactly sure how that whole system works, but boy was he preaching it! Would I be able to see the face of the soul I was saving? Is there some kind of quantity discount?

I'm wondering. . .for all the "abominations" Christians go on about these days, shouldn't someone, somewhere be speaking out about this crap? Shouldn't we be concerned with the heretics that attach American dollars to souls and brainwash vulnerable people into believing their lack of faith is why they're not rich or plagued with a disease or reaping a "harvest"?
What the heck???!!!