This is going to be another Memorial invitation thread.
Before I get to the topic at hand, I want to quickly sound off on the invitation itself.
I had seen it online weeks before the JWs came with “a special invitation”, so the content wasn’t really news to me. However, when I held it in my hand, I couldn’t help but be disgusted by the joke of an “invitation” that flimsy small piece of paper was.
If you are going to invite strangers to the “biggest celebration” of your religion, please do not hand out what looks like pieces of scrap tissue paper. Mind you, you didn’t have to order them from a print shop; it is all self-produced and manufactured. Even the cheapest card at a dollar store feels and looks 1000 times more like an invitation than the drawer liner you handed me.
This is how the celebration of Jesus is announced? Believe me, my local landscaper, cleaning company or home improvement company do WAY better job in presenting their services with the flyers left at my door than your billion-dollar printing corporation.
What a shame, what a mockery!
Now, after I realized that this is not just another piece of junk mail and read the message, one thing stood out to me: what I called a “tri-forkation”
I am not going to analyze the contents; it has been done here extensively, one thing I don’t remember reading about is the 3 forced “choices” Jesus is thought to be viewed as: an infant, a dying man, an exalted king.
So, no other options?
How about:
-The Savior – for most of Christianity
-The Infidel – for most of the hard-core Muslim world
-A mythological figure – for atheists
-Never heard of him – for who knows how many people around the world.
-etc,
Why limit the choice to only 3 possible options, ignore the rest and then invite me to TELL me which one it is?