This gets 34 Creativity Points

My wife, for a housewarming gift, bought me a subscription to my favorite magazine on the planet: Mental Floss. It's incredible. It's an all-things-trivial library of goodness. (Aside: my wife is spending the week at a conference in Atlanta . . . sorry if I sound depressed).

Anywho, interesting feature this month . . . the stories behind our favorite inventions (e.g. the Pez dispenser, Ex Lax, the Paper Clip, etc). Ok, remember that for a minute.

You'll probably know that I am quite sick of Christianity's counter-productive attempt to market itself; not that it NEEDS to be marketed, but the image portrayed to the world is not a picture-perfect image of Christ. When we do something 'big', it's generally so tacky and predictable that 'twas a failureth before it had ever begun.

SO, enter the Roller Coaster. The Roller Coaster was first invented by a minister on Coney Island who, appalled at the number of men frequenting the local pubs vs. those frequenting the local places of worship (though I guess a pub really is a place of worship, when you think about it), that he built a contraption that is now recognized as the official beginning of the Roller Coaster. I'll have to consult Mental Floss for the rest of the details, but he built it to lure the men back OUT of the pubs.

For God's sake, can we take a lesson in creativity and lay off the religio-political nonsense? More on religio-political nonsense later.

Grace.