Curious Christian

When the people saw that the holy fool was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around the respectable pastor and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this holy fool who brought us up out of slavery, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

The respectable pastor answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to the respectable pastor. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a gun, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, O America, who brought you up out of slavery.

When the respectable pastor saw this, he built an altar in front of the gun and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.