Fun with Politics (123)

I think we can safely assume that Steve Kreuscher from Zion, Illinois, is a few sheep short of a flock. According to him, atheists everywhere are trying to remove the phrase “In God We Trust” from our currency. This he perceives as a big threat; as if anybody ever looks at those words when paying for something. Besides, if you want to be consistent, you really should petition to have it placed on credit cards, Steve.

But no; Kreuscher came up with something better: he’s petitioning to have his name officially changed to “In God We Trust”. How this will help his cause, I’m not sure; it does, however, bring up some interesting questions. Will it be his first name, or his last? Will he make any children he might have (god, let’s hope not) use the same name? How will he abbreviate it? Will it be one word, (Ingodwetrust Kreuscher), or will it be a phrase? And, most importantly, will this become a trend?

When put in historical context, Kreuscher’s behavior is neither odd, not original.

Kreuscher’s hometown of Zion deserves a closer look; John Alexander Dowie, who also founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, founded it in 1901. All north-south roads are named after the Bible. Dowie, originally from Edinburgh, was an evangelist and a faith healer, who had a bit of trouble growing roots; only once he founded Zion, a city that was supposed to be free of all the evil that society produced, was he able to stay put. He amassed many followers, who all believed the earth was flat. Dowie’s life did not end happily, however; he was plagued by scandal, suffered from alcoholism, lost his mind, and died abandoned by friends and family in 1907. Ain’t life a bitch?