in the 1700's, in London, England you could purchase insurance against going to hell.
Oh Boy!!
Oh Boy is right...lemme see if I understand this correctly...are you suggesting that in England during the 1700's it wasn't enough to simply attend church, confess your weekly sins, make a donation based on income (called a tithing) and say a few Hail Mary's or Our Fathers thereby saving your soul from the fires of eternal damnation, but that you were also presented with the opportunity to purchase insurance too!!! What was it called Comprehensive Confessional and Condemnation...was there a sliding Dante's Deductible scale...kinda like a cuss jar...probably had neat little advertising jingles too...Break a Commandment for a Schilling...Fornicate with thy Neighbors wife for a Farthing...Poke a Prostitute for a Pound...the real genius is in the man who capitalized on this idea...can you imagine selling an idea to an enormous amount of people...having their collective conscience buy into the notion that for a mere pittance of the weekly paycheck they could insure their souls from the deepest depths of Hades...thats just an abomination...duping people into believing in something that doesn't exist, and then exacting a financial stipend from those believers, by playing on the simplest of fears...Hey...wait a damn minute...didja say England during the 1700's??? I'm almost certain something very similar is happening this coming Sunday in some of the wealthiest Non Profit Agencies around the world...now being a quick study and also eager to jump on the 'Pay the Piper' bandwagon I will be selling Apocalyptic Annunaki Insurance from now until halfway thru Hannukah next year...if by chance you are abducted, anally probed, or otherwise impregnated by 10' tall Aliens from the Planet X, on or about Dec 21st 2012, we'll reimburse any wages lost in the failed Hellfire and Brimstone Insurance scam of the late 1700's
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