Why doesn't God just create more oil?

Where to start with this?

Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer.

Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San Francisco Chevron station on Friday, asking God for cheaper gas. He did the same thing in the nation's Capitol on Wednesday, with volunteers from a soup kitchen joining in. Today he will lead members of an Oakland church in prayer.

Yes, it's come to that.

"God is the only one we can turn to at this point," said Twyman, 59. "Our leaders don't seem to be able to do anything about it. The prices keep soaring and soaring."

Worst cutesy church sign so far

The local Anglican church is in a lovely old building, surrounded by a graveyard, and with the ocean nearby.

Unfortunately, they also have a sign on which they not only place times of worship, but also those cutesy slogans mainline Protestant churches seem so enamoured of. You know the kind: "What's missing in this ch__ch?"(answer: "u r"). There's actually a great post on the subject of these types of signs on the Church Marketing Sucks blog.

I am not a church-goer, so I read the signs with a vague, idle interest. But one a few weeks ago almost had me hitting the brakes as I drove by. It said, "Jesus is my Prozac." The local Anglicans are clearly not the first church to have thought up this gem, but that doesn't excuse its sheer awfulness.

Where to begin?

I can't really think of a more limp, milquetoast, bland approach to religion than to compare Jesus to Prozac. Is the Anglican church a happy pill? Did Jesus die on the cross to relieve our symptoms of depression? Do depressed people need church to pick them up? Are people who take Prozac being made to feel they are inadequate, and they should be in church instead? Will quitting the church potentially make you suicidal?

It's an awful, awful analogy.

If this is the best the Anglicans and their like can offer, no wonder the fundamentalist churches are booming.