(Warning: This particular post will probably end up being extremely offensive. I’m probably going to have to post pictures of puppies, rainbows and babies to make up for it)
You all know I’m an atheist, right?
So, every once in awhile I do a search on the Cheesecake City library’s website’s card catalog for topics that interest me. I end up with a stack of books that are interesting, without having to do much work. A few weeks ago, I did a search for fiction about Hollywood. I came up with a list of about a half dozen books. I’m down to the last 3. The first of them bored me senseless, the third book hasn’t been touched yet.
The SECOND book, however, was interesting from the start. Fiction about a regular woman who ends up with a big Hollywood star. I’m about halfway through it when I realize, “Fuck me, there’s a lot of religion in this fiction book about Hollywood, more than usual.” When I noticed it early on, I thought perhaps there’d be some interesting parables to the whole Scientology thing (ya know, crazy religion, not mainline stuff), and that’s what kept me reading.
So I am sitting here, reading and thinking, this is really a sucky book. Who published this monster?? I grab my trusty laptop and do a search for the publishing house.
Oh, fuck me, they tricked me into borrowing a religious book from the library. I just checked…this is totally a stealth religious novel. Here are the subjects for this book per the card catalog online:
Motion picture actors and actresses — Fiction.
Biography as a literary form — Fiction.
Married people — Fiction.
Biographers — Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) — Fiction.
I ask you – anything about religion in the above subjects?
It’s like when you’re cruising down the highway, bopping along to some song on the radio and it turns it’s a stealth religious song. Or the time our culinarian had us taste test desserts, and we all thought it tasted a little weird, only to find out it was Atkins cheesecake and chocolate cake.
BTW, Gene thinks this is hysterical. I told him all of this and he keeps telling me that I got “snaked by the Christians”.