R U Saved?
Posted by Dan Hertz on October 28, 2008
Yes, I have been terribly delinquent in my blogging. I’m a terrible person. Fine.
Moving on.
Driving down from Ithaca the other week (having been up there to visit Britt and Jason, who were back in town) I saw an unusual sign outside a church on NYS-79. It said simply “R U SAVED”. And I must admit that this bothered me somewhat. Because there are a couple of ways I can interpret this and none of them are terribly positive.
The first is that the church was just lacking letters, (perhaps the most charitable interpretation) which would just be sad. True, there was writing on the other side of the sign as well, but if they are really lacking the letters a, e, y and o, I think that church is in pretty dire straits.
A more disturbing possibility is that whoever put up the letters is sufficiently steeped in text messaging that they thought nothing of this approach to ’spelling’. In which case the church probably needs to give some more serious thought to the matter of to whom they are going to entrust the important duty of putting up the letters on the sign by the road. Seriously.
Finally there is the possibility is that this is some sort of feeble attempt to connect with the modern text-messaging youth. In which case it is just tragic and misguided. Surely the question of whether or not you are saved is the single most important issue in existence, so spelling the words out completely seems like it might be worth the trouble? Imagine for a moment that you are on death row awaiting execution. I think you want the note from the governor notifying you of your pardon to say something other than “omg u r ok dude!”
Jesus supposedly walked on water, raised people (sorry, I mean ppl) from the dead, and turned water into wine. Is it too much to ask that we spell out words completely on his behalf? Apparently.
Here endeth the rant and the lesson.
