False Doctrine at Target

I saw this card at Target last week while doing my Mother’s Day shopping.

(click here to see it big enough to actually read it).

The phrase “mother religious” at the top is a category/description marker in the slot where this card was placed. The card itself says, “God couldn’t be everywhere at once, so he invented mothers.”

I realize that “religious” is a very broad category for cards and that cards are usually designed to appeal to the least common denominator of public ideas.

But that’s precisely why this belongs in a category besides “religious” (”Deism,” perhaps?), because Christians [and many false religions as well, I might add] believe in the immanence of God. That is, we believe and teach that God is fully present everywhere at all times. This card denies that, making it heretical (or, perhaps “irreligious” or “sacrilegious” given the category marker).

Bottom line: it’s OK to buy cards at Target, just don’t shop there for good theology. A lot times I find a blank card with an image that I like on it and just write the text myself.