nobody asked…

So, just what the devil is a “Christian mortgage”?

Occasionally I check the accumulation of excrement in my email spam filter, just to make sure there’s no real mail trapped there before blowing it all to oblivion. There is a growing number of messages pushing Christian mortgages, Christian dating and match-making services, Christian car loans, Christian this and Christian that…

At first I just revulsed at all this as being more spam…and of course it is. But the increasing volume got me thinking, and I have a few questions for these purveyors of religiously (is that a word?) affiliated products and services.

1. Most imortantly, does claiming to be a Christian give an applicant a lower price or rate?
2. What kind of documentation is required to prove that claim?
3. Are all brands of Christianity treated equally? Do Catholics get a better shake than Baptists?
4. Are these products also available to non-Christians? Religious discrimination?
5. If I get one of these mortgages and later convert to, lets say, Judaism, am I required to forfeit?
6. If I am late with a payment, am I treated with compassion and tolerance?

While my head is full of other questions, these should adequately portray my drift.

Of course, the answer to the entire series becomes clear when you realize that these are nothing more than greedy blood and money sucking scams riding on the crest of the fundamentalist Christian tsunami perpetrated by the current administration. And unfortunately, there must be enough clueless non-thinking souls out there who wave the flag, display the “W” sticker on their cars, and condemn everyone who is not like them, to make it worthwhile for so many greedy oportunistic messages to be sent, and resent, and resent…ad infinitum.

That also brings focus to the question of the mentality of those who send spam, thinking that by filling my inbox with trash everyday, pissing me off continuously, that I will somehow finally break, yield, bite the bullet and buy whatever they’re pushing. But that is a topic for another day.