26 March 2007

Economics (for Christian Schools)

No joke, this is a text-book title. My eye spotted the said title held between the digits of a high school-aged girl in the wash-o-mat. It had me wondering: did Jesus have advanced economic theories? What were they and did they offer some eternal truth? (I jest.)

Mainly, it had me wondering: what exactly was it protecting its green readers from? I mean a science textbook that espouses to Intelligent Design and dismisses that silly, wayward Darwinism, I can understand--it protects the youth from the point of view that a god doesn't have anything to do with the Universe and its perceived Order. (I know, I sound more like a disciple of Meursault...)

I wondered how a girl, who read such a book, would be...

If the frightful mother weren't there, I might have asked the girl a question or two...