Dear Jesus,

Do you like Fish Fry Fridays?

When you came here to save the world, did you ever imagine that – in addition to breaking bread at eucharist together – we’d slap some fish with oil and fry it up in your name?

What do you think of fish sticks, as opposed to fish fillets?

If you fed a crowd of 5,000 without counting women and children with a five loaves of bread and two fish, does that mean we should be feeding cities with our Costo amounts of fried fish, baked potatoes, and french fries with cole slaw?  We are greasing up our cafeterias and kitchens every Friday during Lent to be in community and not eat meat together.  We eat our fill of the most unhealthy food there is on earth.  Again, we do this IN YOUR NAME!

There are so many things done in your name, or, at least, in the name of values found in Christianity.  I wonder what you would think of Dr. Tiller’s murder as he was shot on the steps of his church as he handed out the bulletin?  I wonder what you’d think about this man who performed late term abortions –

supposedly out of care for the mother’s life

because the mothers were scared out of their minds

because there was no other place to turn

and in turn,

this man, Tiller, was taken out of this life and into the next

by a bullet

in your house?  On the steps of your father’s house?

If you drove out vendors with whips and anger out of the temple

because you hated your father’s house turned marketplace —

what do you think of your father’s house turned into a

political scandal

a deathbed

a firing range

a raging inferno

Oh, Jesus, c’mon and tell me what you think.  There’s so much wrong in the world done in your name, why won’t you please clarify and correct your name and restore it to some thing of meaning, of peace?  In the Philippines women are dying because of botched abortions. The Philippines –  the country where divorce is illegal, the crops are dried, the national import is human bodies, abortion is illegal, and there is no seemingly distinct line between the church and the state, women are left with the rhythm method, no education, and botched abortions.  What say you on all of this?  And that’s no demand, it’s a plea.  Respond to this madness!

So much is done in your name, I am left wondering if you have plugged your ears.

Holla back,

Lisa