Disjointed Digression

A few days ago I was going through Google Reader (which I have built into gmail via a Greasemonkey script for firefox but I digress…) and I came across a Digg.com article that sounded somewhat interesting. The title was “RIAA Spends Thousands To Obtain $300 Judgment“  Due to the way the RSS feed works (I guess), whenever I click a link in Google reader, it sends me to the comments page for an article.  On the top and sides of the comments page are Google ads.  I guess I should be less lazy and get some sort of inline ad blocker… again I digress. 

One of the ads on the side read

“God can help your credit”  and had a link to http://www.christiancreditconsultants.com/.

I honestly can’t say why this stuck me as funny.  In both a ha-ha funny and that’s odd funny way.  I have nothing against Christianity, or religion.  But there are just some things that I don’t associate with God.  One of those is my credit score.  Somehow I don’t think that God would be into fixing people’s credit.  I think that if someone were to ask God for help on their credit (I know, know that there have been some prayers like that) that God would turn it into a lesson a la ”you dug your own hole, now climb out of it.”  I doubt he would just snap his fingers and fix the credit problems. 

Which in turn makes me wonder how a Christian credit counselor works… Do they call the creditor and ask them to do the “Christian thing” and lower the interest rate?  What if the creditor is a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Jew, or anything other than Christian?  My bet is that it’s a regular credit counseling service offering its services under a religious name.

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