I keep seeing commercials about high fiber cereals, and how they’re always touting the value of high fiber content. They always make it clear that high fiber stuff is lame, but they qualify it by highlighting the great things you get from high fiber. So this got me to thinking. You know the expression: “high moral fiber”? Well, couldn’t a church use this same approach as a high fiber cereal: saying it’s maybe dull, but that it builds character, and gives you contacts and morals, etc.? I think it would be a good idea! They could say that you can get your recommended daily allowance of moral fiber from the place with the highest moral fiber around: at church! (I don’t know that it would work for the Catholic Church, given their molesty problems of late, but surely other denominations could use it. They’re not all like that, right?)
The only problem with this idea is that the good thing about fiber is that it helps you stay regular (it helps you crap), and that critics could say the high fiber of church would just feed you bullcrap, so you can spew more of it out yourself. I’m not saying that. I’m just saying that’s what others with a quick wit and scatological sensibilities might say. And it’s a good criticism of the ad idea, even if it’s not what you think of the church.
