Pray fighting in Promised Land
Every Canadian-made green paintball that stings you like the end of a wet towel, does so with the grace of tiny Christian fish symbols printed on their shell.
“I’ve looked in the Bible, and can’t find anything wrong with paintball,” reasons Andy Leong, a 48-year-old Chicago marketing executive who’s come to celebrate the birthday of his 13-year-old son, Luke. “In fact, the Bible is filled with combat as a topic.”
A number of months ago, a columnist noted that Evangelical Christianity has succeeded in creating a parallel culture of such magnitude it has totally lost touch with the culture that actually is and seriously believes that this parallel culture is the real thing. If this isn’t the most clear example of such ever created, I have no idea what could top it.
We ultimately have become neither, “In the world,” nor, “Of it,” and, thus, mostly irrelevant to it.
In the process, we’ve become a joke to it.
