Town of Walker, Louisiana water bill says, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” WTF?
Christian quote on Town of Walker, Louisiana water bill
You think your water bill or other utility bills are outrageous? Wait until you see the ones they are sending out from the Town of Walker, Louisiana!
At first glance they look pretty much like any other water bill, until you get to the bottom, where it prominently says, and I quote, “NOTE: It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible!”
Impossible? WTF? I mean, why specifically God and the Bible? Why not Allah and the Koran, or The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the hilarious Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Tell me, Town of Walker! I want to know.
I could get started discussing who actually wrote the so-called ‘word of God’, and I’d never end if I had to tackle the merits of the Bible as an ideal book to govern the world by.
I could pull up a thousand quotes to show that the Bible is far from being an ideal book. I could be asking the good folks over at the Town of Walker, Louisiana if they think we should govern the world on the basis that women are inferior. I could ask the Town of Walker, Louisiana if they are suggesting we should stone our children to death when they disobey. I could ask them if they think that those who govern the world should go on a genocidal rampage against their enemies, as God has ordered time and again. I could ask them a thousand such questions, and have to listen to a thousand apologetic, evasive or circular arguments.
But I won’t, because there is a greater issue here. A much greater issue. What has a quote about God and the Bible ever got to do with a sodden water bill?
I’ll tell you what. It’s that all that some religious people think of is pushing their brainwashed beliefs down our throats at all costs, whenever they can, and in whatever way they can. They don’t care what you or I think. They don’t give a fuck. They know the ultimate truth, and that’s that.
Just that if you ask them why God and why the Bible, the answer you’ll get will most probably boil down to, ‘because God says so in the Bible’.
Way to go Town of Walker, Louisiana. Now all the world will know just what a backwater you are!
BTW. There’s a phone number and address on the water bill, in case you want to let them know what you think. ; )
“I could pull up a thousand quotes to show that the Bible is far from being an ideal book”
I would love to see you do that without the things you pull out being able to be explained..
The water company that wrote that on there has faith in God.
Wow, it was really that simple to answer..
So Smartypants…if God didn’t exist tell me..where did water come from in the first place?
This is simply a program that puts quotes of famos people at the space on the bottom of the bill. This was a quote from George Washington . Though the mayor of the town of Walker appoligized for this quote for fear of being sued by some anti christian orginazation such as yours. Most everyone who lives here belive in Jesus Christ and Gods word “The Bible” and pray for people like you on a daily basis may god touch your soul in a way that you cant deny him.
Bitch on bro! The Christians don’t want to secularism to invade their lives, I don’t want fundamentalism invading mine.
Well wtf – if that’s actually a quote, why not attribute it? That makes it even worse in my opinion.
But to those of us buckled into the bible belt here in Louisiana, its nothing unusual. May I direct you to the Diversion Water Company, servicing parts of three parishes (counties) near me: http://www.diversionwater.com/
Take note of the lilies-and-a-bible motif up top, and the verse at the bottom. Your choices in my area are Diversion Water or drilling a well…which is also done by Diversion Water. So we suck it up and pay for the “holy” water.
This is probably too late, but that quote is a forged George Washington quote, it is not real and has no historical value whatsoever. It is Christian designed fiction, nothing more. It is all an attempt to brand the US as a “Christian Nation” and I think it is obvious what they are trying to do.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/badquotes.htm
~Celeste~
Where did water come from?? Water is created when two hydrogen atoms combine with one oxygen atom moron…Eighth grade science should’ve at least taught you that. Why is it that Atheists and Agnostics tend NOT to be so judgemental yet STUPID christians think that they have the right to judge EVERYONE??? According to your OWN mind controlling status of living, only GOD should be able to judge the people on this planet. Grow the fuck up.
Sadly, Shannon and her sad lack of spelling, grammar, and basic common sense is indicative of the people that live here in Walker, LA. In fact, she’s probably in the top 25% which is an even sadder indictment. My wife pays the water bill, so I managed to miss that quote, or I would have called the Mayor’s office the day I received it. As it is, I’ll be watching those quotes rather closely now, and will let my voice be heard should such nonsense rear its ugly head again.
Jim
Walker, LA
Why does it bother you? Would you say the world is “rightly governed” at this point in time? Your money has the words “in God we trust” on it. Do you refuse to use United States currency? If you don’t believe in the principles that made this country the greatest country on earth, maybe you would prefer to live somewhere else. Maybe one of the countries in Africa would suit you. Absolute poverty, disease, corruption. I doubt they print religious quotes on their water bills.
GP: I would reply to you, but that would burst the bubble you’re living in and I don’t want any more of your bigotry spilling out!
GP: No one in this country has a choice other than to use the paper pieces of trash that they MAKE us use as currency. If we didn’t we WOULD be living like people in Africa…starving…because without “in God we trust”….intelligent, open-minded people would f*cking starve. Your example is just one more way that this country tries to control people with an imaginary man in the sky who’s always watching what we do…And for CHRIST’S sake PLEASE stop saying that America is the “greatest country in the world”…I’d much rather live somewhere where I can carry my own system of beliefs, based on CONCRETE PROOF of the existence or non-existence of ANY entity than in this country where people like YOU feel the need to judge…