juvenile primitive tries to explain Christianity; flops

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8978173

Oh my.

This is probably perhaps maybe possibly the last time franksolich gives any ear to the juvenile primitive, who not so long ago seemed so full of potential, but then decided he'd rather be a loser.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-11-09 06:55 AM
Original message
 
When I was 10, I asked my mom to explain why dinosaurs were not in the bible (re Orrex thread)...

If the bible contains the entire history of the universe, why wouldn't god include dinosaurs? I was very confused. School taught me all about dinosaurs and this weird thing called "evolution".

I went to church for 6 hours on Saturday and Sunday and 3 hours on Wednesday. We watched videos on creationism and biblical tales.

I went to evangelical church camp. We would talk about creationism and, on occasion, we'd attempt to speak in tongues (I never did speak in tongues. I thought the entire practice was disturbing). Our dorm leader would get mad at us for telling ghost stories at night.

I remember being baptized at a church members house. I got really pissed off at my paster for holding me under water for too long. By the time he got to "the holy spirit", I was about to pass out. The entire practice seemed absurd.

I also wasn't allowed to watch Scooby Doo, Care Bears and a long list of other shows. Harry Potter was off limits too. My parents said it was witchcraft.

So how did my mom respond to my question about dinosaurs?

"I don't know"

And so began my slow departure from close-minded religious indoctrination. I was always an intellectual outcast in my family.

That's the kind of environment I grew up in. I can't believe I made it out okay.

Thanks Orrex for doing the right thing. When your kid is at Yale, you'll realize the benefit of your actions.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-11-09 06:55 PM
Response to Reply #11
 
15. I went to an evangelical church.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 04:50 AM
Response to Reply #18
 
22. Well it explains why I'm so weird.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Tue Aug-11-09 06:54 PM
Response to Reply #13
 
14. It's the story of my life. 

The only thing we didn't do was have a life sized cardboard cut out of Bush. Everything else is pretty damn close.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 04:48 AM
Response to Reply #17
 
21. Well I made out okay. My brother and sister weren't so lucky.

They aren't dumb. But they don't seem to be as academic as myself.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 06:18 PM
Response to Reply #24
 
30. Well, I no longer believe in the existence of God.

But I'm not necessarily an atheist. I'm a philosophy major, so I'm still religious on a certain level. But not in the traditional sense.

I have long since abandoned Christianity. I never plan on joining an organized religion again. Although, I have considered Taoism.

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 06:34 PM
Response to Reply #31
 
32. My mom told me that my grandma was going to hell for being Buddhist.

Which kind of pissed me off.

[USA4ME]

armyowalgreens
 
When I was 10, I asked my mom to explain why dinosaurs were not in the bible (re Orrex thread)...

If the bible contains the entire history of the universe, why wouldn't god include dinosaurs? I was very confused.

What an absured question.  The Bible doesn't mention kangaroos either.  Was it supposed to mention every animal that's ever existed?

The juvenille primitive came up with this when he was 10.  But as we can all see, his limitied "intellect" hasn't developed beyond that age because he still views the questions of a 10 years old as being very intelligent today.  Normal people, as they grow older, put away childish things and conduct themselves as adults should.  Sad thing is the primitives, who are sub-normal and of which many are in their 50's, 60's, and 70's, still have the "intellect" of the juvenille primitive, they are outcasts but it has nothing to do with their self-deceived intellectual status, and the last thing they could ever be labeled would be "OK."

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[blitzkrieg_17]

Bouncy.

[jtyangel]

armyowalgreens  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 06:34 PM
Response to Reply #31
 
32. My mom told me that my grandma was going to hell for being Buddhist.

Which kind of pissed me off.

And your grandmother had beliefs in Buddhism which judged others(whether they like to think it or not). Did her beliefs ever piss you off walgreens primitive? If not ask yourself why you have selective rage over someone's belief system to set standards of behavior or a belief system that judges actions of another person.

The fact that you judged your mother for her beliefs might piss someone else off. Like I said, they just don't think this out really do they? 

[jinxmchue]

Dinosaurs?  He stopped believing in God because the Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs?  The Bible doesn't mention a lot of animals, many of which existed (and still exist) in the Middle East.  That the Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs (a word, incidentally, that wasn't coined until the 19th Century) is not at all unusual.  The Bible doesn't mention the crocodile, the elephant or the hippo, either, though they undoubtedly were all known by the authors of the books of the Bible.

[JohnnyReb]

Damn! More people escaped Jonestown than I thought. All those drugs must have made them immune to the Kool-Aide.

[GOBUCKS]

There is one true sentence in this pathetic bouncy, and even there I have to edit for complete honesty:

I was always an intellectual outcast in my family.

Coach feels this character has a future as a gigolo. I can't look at things from the feminine point of view,
but somehow I doubt that, unless he has talents that aren't apparent in his writing.

[The Village Idiot]

The bible doesn't mention a lot of things dunderhead

[AprilRazz]

Bouncy.

And not even his own work.
http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/

[blitzkrieg_17]

Not surprising.

[MrsSmith]

Job 40:15   Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. 


 Job 40:16   Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly. 


 Job 40:17   He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 


 Job 40:18   His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron. 


 Job 40:19   He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him]. 


 Job 40:20   Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 


 Job 40:21   He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 


 Job 40:22   The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 


 Job 40:23   Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 

Not just a bouncy, not just a stolen story, but one that may well be completely untrue.