Karma

I feel like I’ve been losing track. I haven’t been writing much, and what I have written seems shallow and less connected. I keep looking to the world for inspiration in case something jumps out at me. Nothing lately has. But honestly, something has been irking me for a while. It is another church sign, though from a different church this time. It reads:
"WAL-MART ISN’T THE ONLY SAVING PLACE"
You may read this and wonder why it bothers me. I’m rather obviously not Christian, and never even in my discussion of religion have I lauded the sacred necessity of being "saved". But somehow, this sign seems to be in terribly poor taste. It has been up for a long time now, and perhaps no one has complained about it. Maybe it’s because enough Christians shop at Wal-Mart to see the connection and find it funny. It’s a connection I don’t see, and I don’t find it funny - I find it tacky. Saving a few cents on poorly made items in a work environment where its employees are unfairly compensated and the business is drowning out other local family-owned businesses doesn’t seem to fall in line, anywhere, with the Salvation in the Christ. If, in order for people to make the memory connection to their place of worship, it is necessary to call upon an infamously cheap chain retailer, inadvertently (?) advertising for them at the same time, then our nation’s poison commercialism has reached a new level of saturation. Of course, it’s not like this honestly means anything to me; I’m not looking for a church, and I don’t need to confirm my personal beliefs against those people. But it seems to me that a person’s theistic perspective should be something that is not only personal to them, but remains "sacred", if you will. In that way, a sign like this is twisted and insulting.