God Was Not the Main Character of Steve Martin’s THE JERK

I find it hilarious that anybody would actually believe that God cares about having his name on a coin.

I mean, look at this guy.

He’s the putative author of the number one best-seller in publishing history. There are paintings of him all over Europe. They’ve made more movies about his doings than about any other historical personality. All over the world, people stop whatever they’re doing, sometimes multiple times a day, to tell him at length how great he is. In fact, they shout out his name during sex.

The average celebrity would say, okay, at this point, I think I’ve arrived, it’s time to let the new kids have some cred. I mean, once you got all this going for you, who would care about having your name on a coin?

And yet, certain people would have us believe that he deeply cares about getting his name printed on our money, as well.

I think they have a mental image of Him sitting up there, on His throne, receiving the latest version of the United States dollar coin, and jumping up and down with excitement to see that He’s made it again, like Navin Johnson cavorting in front of Jackie Mason’s gas station, hollering, “The new phone book’s here! The NEW PHONE BOOK’S HERE!”