Monday, March 02, 2009

Angels and Lephrechans

7 comments:

CyberKitten said...

[laughs]

That's *funny*

Stardust said...

I find that using the hospital setting is very fitting since most hospitals are run by god believing organizations, yet rely so much on modern technology. Probably because they know most people are believers and so cater to the masses. Ask one of those doctors or surgeons to use prayer in lieu of action, and they will be shocked.

Loridae said...

Gotta love that! Ain't it the truth. My kids don't even believe in the Easter Bunny, and God is different how?

Stardust said...

Loridae, god, easter bunny, santa claus, barney the purple dinosaur, the pink unicorn, and the abominable snow monster are all the same...imagination. It's just that many adults just can't let go of one of those because it's reinforced in their brains week after week. If they replaced god with Tinkerbell, it would produce a bunch of people who believed that Tinkerbell exists and will keep them alive forever. (If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!)

Stardust said...

Loridae? How old are your kids? I have three grown kids, ages 30, 29 and 27 and all non-believers in the Jeezus myth.

We started out in family life at "Protestant lite" (Presbyterian) but gradually belief slipped away with the older they got.

When I was a kid I was raised Church of Christ and then Lutheran with a brief two-year stint at the Baptist Church which ended quickly when me and my siblings were having a little too much fun running around in cars when to and from "youth group meetings". Those Baptist kids are wild and crazy, and they lie to their parents and church leaders like pros.

Loridae said...

Stardust, I always said that I love the fairy myth, love the legend and reading fairy stories, but not to the point that I would make them real and let them run my life! My kids are 34 and 31. I told them I don't care what you believe in, just make your decision by educating yourself and be able to argue what you believe in intelligently....they are both atheists. My parents didn't push religion, but they didn't say I couldn't go to church either. I learned early the hypocrisy of the church. But my dad believed in Darwin's Theory and I am ever so glad. I have never understood the NEED for a god. I like everyone has moments of fear of dying, but never to the point that I could force myself to believe in something that is so obliviously wrong. Our planet is so amazing and evolution just mind blowing so why the need to have it all magically appear 4,000 years ago. I look into the eyes of the great apes and am proud to be related to them. Why is that so hateful to Christians?

Stardust said...

Loridae, seems we have a lot in common. My parents also are Christians of the Lutheran (Missouri Synod) variety, but they still value education, science and my father is fascinated by all the marvels of technology. I think they like church for the social aspects, especially now that they are older.

I remember when I was a kid and the Sundays they made us to go church. It never failed, there was always arguments on those days we went, no one was in a good mood and no one wanted to sit there and be bored for a whole hour. That one little hour seemed like an eternity. The Sundays I remember most fondly were the days we stayed home in our pajamas all morning, and my dad would go to the bakery and buy a whole dozen chocolate frosted cake donuts, the big-fat kind. Dad would read the funny pages of the newspaper to us and we were all so happy.

I agree with you about the great apes. They are magnificent creatures. Did you see the latest news where they found that chimps actually think and plan ahead? This chimp at a zoo in Stockholm Sweden collected an arsenal of rocks, even chipping away at boulders of his confines and saved them until one afternoon when he started hurling his weapons at visitors. That story was quite amusing. Here is the link for that.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/03/10/MN2F16C12F.DTL