So I open up my email and find yet another smarmy little posting with lots of cutesy pictures of angels, and little kids praying and, of course, the standard sunset shot off the coast of California. I am instructed, as always, to read the inspiring message about all of the angels that are watching over us and, I don’t know, maybe I get to name one and take it home with me. I couldn’t tell you the content of the whole thing because I never bother to read them anyway. Nor do I forward this stuff to everyone in my address book. I like most of the people on my email list, just not the ones who send me this crap.
Now you may be saying to yourself right now, what a nasty little misanthropic human being this jerk is. Well, tell me this then. Why is it that in the richest nation on the face of this planet, regardless of the current economic woes, we can allow a 93 year old man in Wisconsin to freeze to death because he couldn’t pay his electric bill?
Now you may be saying to yourself right now, what a nasty little misanthropic human being this jerk is. Well, tell me this then. Why is it that in the richest nation on the face of this planet, regardless of the current economic woes, we can allow a 93 year old man in Wisconsin to freeze to death because he couldn’t pay his electric bill?
Now mind you, this old man, Marvin Schur, FORMERLY of Bay City, Wisconsin didn’t just freeze his ass off over the course of one night because the power company, run by Bay City put a limiter device on Schur’s home. According to Bay City Manager Robert Belleman, hereafter described as HSOB (heartless son of a bitch), he didn’t know if Schur had been personally contacted to explain how the device works. Nor, quite apparently, did HSOB or anyone in his department advise Mr. Schur that no matter what he did, he was going to die a slow and agonizing death over the course of the coming week.
The Bay City medical examiner, Kanu Varani, stated that Schur would have died a “slow and agonizing death” when hypothermia set in. His house was well below freezing inside when neighbors discovered him. Schur had no children and his wife had died several years ago.
So where was Mr. Schur’s angel? Did he pray to God to have his furnace turn back on when the mysterious black box outside blew off like a fuse? Was the money he had carefully clipped to his electric bill going to be mailed before his toes turned blue? Did anyone care? Apparently not.
He was 93 for God’s sake!
I don’t think we can wait for that cute little group of angels when it comes to the Mr. Schurs of the world. He was not a welfare cheat, he wasn’t running a crack house, he just couldn’t afford to live in his home anymore and there was nobody around to help him do otherwise. He needed our charity. He needed us to help pay his bill, or provide agencies within power companies to deal with these problems in a humane fashion.
Christ said that the poor would always be among us. Then, in the four synoptic gospels he told us 343 times that it was our responsibility to take care of those poor people. Give them the shirt off our back if need be. And where do all too many “Christians” put all of their efforts? Abortion, Gay Marriage and Stem Cell Research. The Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse by many peoples' standards.
Let me tell you something- if you abort a baby, it’s not going to take three days to perform the procedure, which is about how long Mr. Schur spent in agony (the Medical Examiner’s word, not mine).
So to all my "angel" people out there, stop sending me those pointless messages and get good and angry about all of the poor people out there who never did anything terribly wrong to anybody, but who are getting the shaft. Looking for an angel to help the down and out? Look in the mirror, sport.
The Bay City medical examiner, Kanu Varani, stated that Schur would have died a “slow and agonizing death” when hypothermia set in. His house was well below freezing inside when neighbors discovered him. Schur had no children and his wife had died several years ago.
So where was Mr. Schur’s angel? Did he pray to God to have his furnace turn back on when the mysterious black box outside blew off like a fuse? Was the money he had carefully clipped to his electric bill going to be mailed before his toes turned blue? Did anyone care? Apparently not.
He was 93 for God’s sake!
I don’t think we can wait for that cute little group of angels when it comes to the Mr. Schurs of the world. He was not a welfare cheat, he wasn’t running a crack house, he just couldn’t afford to live in his home anymore and there was nobody around to help him do otherwise. He needed our charity. He needed us to help pay his bill, or provide agencies within power companies to deal with these problems in a humane fashion.
Christ said that the poor would always be among us. Then, in the four synoptic gospels he told us 343 times that it was our responsibility to take care of those poor people. Give them the shirt off our back if need be. And where do all too many “Christians” put all of their efforts? Abortion, Gay Marriage and Stem Cell Research. The Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse by many peoples' standards.
Let me tell you something- if you abort a baby, it’s not going to take three days to perform the procedure, which is about how long Mr. Schur spent in agony (the Medical Examiner’s word, not mine).
So to all my "angel" people out there, stop sending me those pointless messages and get good and angry about all of the poor people out there who never did anything terribly wrong to anybody, but who are getting the shaft. Looking for an angel to help the down and out? Look in the mirror, sport.
Didn't you know that poor Mr. Schur was left to die a slow and painful death because "God" was busy making sure the right teams got into the Super Bowl?
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