Normally it’s expected of our friend and compatriot Larry Beane to post on our website examples of outrageous and ridiculous things that provide further evidence of the need for Gottesdienst. Some of them come from within the Missouri Synod, some do not.

So, for those of you who need to exercise your eyes a bit (don’t they say rolling them is a good thing?), it seems there’s a Universal Life Church somewhere out in California (where else?) that’s just for you. It offers a new kind of baptism that caught the eye of our other compatriot Karl Fabrizius, and he sent it to me, And now, naturally, I’m sharing it with you. Why? Because I couldn’t resist the opportunity to upstage Larry a bit with this gem. Now you—yes you—can be baptized into the universal idea of perfection. See?:

Interested? Well, you can get involved! You can become a minister in this church! Here’s how. Karl thought I might want to think twice about posting this, because someone might actually think it’s a good idea. My thought is that such a person would already be a train wreck, so why not?