Christian Consensus Seems Doomed

by Elroy Willis

ATLANTA (EAP) -- Christians from around the country have gathered together in Atlanta this week in an attempt to reconcile their differences and form a cohesive set of so-called "sins" which they can all agree on, and they hope to form a new denomination which they can all be happy with.

"Things don't look good so far," says Timothy Johnson, spokesman for a group of Christians who take the Bible quite literally, and think that mowing the lawn on Sunday is a sin and an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

"The Sunday newspaper is quite heavy, and it's obvious that picking it up off of the driveway or the front lawn is an act of work, and something that the Lord doesn't want us to do on His Holy day," says Johnson, who encourages all Christians to cancel their Sunday newspaper subscriptions.

Other groups of Christians are up in arms about people clipping their toenails and shaving their underarms, and say that if God had wanted people to have short toenails and no underarm hair, then He would've made them that way.

"We just can't seem to reach any sort of agreement on what we all think that God thinks is bad for us," said Lewis Griffin, leader of a new-age group of Christians who think that Jesus was a hedonist and a liberal with a care-free attitude of "Live, Love, and Let Live."

Talks between the different groups of Christians will continue throughout the holiday season in hopes of capturing the spirit of good will towards each other, but things seem to be off to a bad start with little hope of any sort of general agreement.

"Our beliefs about God, and what He really wants are correct, and all of the other people who don't interpret the scriptures the way we do are obviously wrong, and should be ashamed of themselves and realize that they will be in big trouble come judgement day," says 42-year-old Kenneth Simpson, leader of a small group of Christians who think that man-made ice cubes are the work of the Devil.


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