Yesterday I ended up getting side tracked as has been known to happen with me, and to follow a quote from the famous Yogi Berra of baseball fame, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” So I’m taking it, I may have forked up yesterday but only time will tell.
I joked about starting my own church yesterday, The Church of Sult N Papper, well I am semi-seriously considering it now. When I first told my family that I was going to start blogging they said, “yea,right.” Well eight months later, without missing a day, I think I can say I am a “blogger”, not a very good one but what the hell, there are plenty of people who get a small pay check from being third string on some pro football team that are considered professional football players and nobody argues with them about it just because they are not the star player or even a first string player.
So, I can start my own church and I’ll be the preacher, I may not be a bible scholar but it doesn’t mean I don’t know the bible or have my own thoughts on it, because I do. The fact is that there isn’t even a consensus among the people who are bible scholars or the people who print the bible as to what the bible says or means, otherwise there wouldn’t fifty different versions of the bible printed in English.
Honestly I have had some issues with some of the “establishment religions” simply because they use fear to get people in their pews. Do you honestly believe that an all powerful and loving being would have his “disciples”, who are to spread his word, scaring people into adopting his teachings? I don’t think so, if fear is part of the religion, I want no part of it.
So, The Church of Sult N Papper will be a non-denominational church if I decide to actually form a church. I promise I won’t be using fear either to press a tithing out of you. Unlike all those televangelists you see on TV and hear on the radio I’ll tell you I am in it for the money, why lie? They couldn’t care less about your spiritual well being, but they sure care about your tithing habits. I’ll care about both, when you are blessed and your spirit is clean and pure, blessings flow to you and from you. If, I am helping keep your spirit tuned and in tip top shape why shouldn’t I get a few SBD’s thrown my way. It is no different than rewarding a good blog post.
If the message on any particular week doesn’t resonate with you don’t drop anything in the collection plate. Try that in the local church you belong too, there have been weeks that when the collection plate came by me I thought about picking a $10 bill out and putting it in my shirt pocket. I shouldn’t have to hear repeat sermons for the third time in three years since the minister was hired into our church. They should have been paying me to sit there and listen to that dribble, not me paying them and their expenses, which seems to continue to grow each and every year.
I am a simple kind of fellow, I don’t need or want some $10 million house that takes up a city block, but I wouldn’t mind having a couple sections out in far southwest Texas with a modest ranch house and good water well and barn. I would also like the fact that I could dedicate more time to my writing, ranting and preaching, in that order.
So let me give it some more consideration, in the mean time , I have selected a deacon for the church and will have to keep him taken care of as well, so feel free to transfer any steem or sbd you might be willing to tithe to my wallet, the address is 