So I went to a big-chain drug store (I believe it might be the biggest, actually), to buy a birthday card for a elderly reletive the other day. 

There was a rack of cards that varied from being crude and disgusting, to being crude, disgusting, and insulting about the fact that you (the recipient) were getting old and unattractive.  I skipped over those.

There was a rack full of kiddie cards, no need for that.

There was a long rack of cards for Grandmothers, Grandfathers, moms and dads, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters...but none for uncle-by-marriage's-mother's birthday.  (I think I've mentioned that we have a close-knit extended family).

Then I saw them...TWO huge racks of religious birthday cards.  Two.  The religious birthday card selection was by far the catagory with the largest selection (as long as you were Christian, that is).

And I saw several...several cards that specifically asked you to contemplate on your birthday, how wonderous it is that you were CREATED, and that you did not happen by CHANCE.  That it was no ACCIDENT that you exsist, but that you were MADE to be you.

That just seemed weird to me. 

I mean, I understand that if your focus is The Church, and if your religion is important to you, you might want to get a religious birthday card.  Heck, I bought a religious themed birthday card for this sweet old grandma lady because I thought it would be preferable (her being very religious) to give her that than one that made clever referances to the effects of gravity on boobs over time...

But doesn't a creationist birthday card (much less several different designs of creationist birthday cards) seem a tad too focused?  Even a little - psychotic?

I found myself wondering who would find themselves standing in front of two whole racks of Christian-themed birthday cards, and looking at a handful of creationist-themed religious birthday cards and thinking "if only they had a better variety".

Of course, I WAS in Bemidji...