Cross (S)

Imagine with me for a moment…

Pretend that a man from South America is speaking here. His name is Jose Samblanco, and having just arrived, he proclaims the good news to us that a Peruvian peasant by the name of Carlos Hernandez was electrocuted on the electric chair for your sins.

He has even written a hymn. The words go like this:

Carlos was there

On that horrible chair

They tied him down with bolts

And then zapped him with 40,000 volts

It was for you he fried

It was for you our savior died

Despite the fact that his hair

caught on fire,

this one is God’s Messiah.

The wisdom of the world has been refuted

because Carlos was electrocuted

He is my savior and my lamp,

because he absorbed every deadly amp

Now I know that God does care,

’cause he sent Carlos Hernandez

to the electric chair

He has also written other hymns like, "In the chair of Carlos I Glory" and "When I cling to that old rugged electric chair". Now imagine if people caught on to this religion and they started wearing gold electric chairs on their necklace or if they put chairs on top of building. What if the Red Cross changed their named to the Red Chair. Prior to a big race, athletes, instead of making the sign of

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