God, Toast and Nail-Guns 21/03/2010
So the other day Im at my pad just making toast and generally minding my own business when the doorbell goes and its a cute 18ish blond girl (and her mum) asking me if I ever read the bible. You have to admire this in a way. I mean, its fucking Sunday morning in 2021 and two complete strangers are door-stepping me without even a trace of embarrassment, to talk about religion.
Now Im a pretty reasonable guy even in my bleary hungover state but Im not convinced they know any more about this than I do. And I feel bad for the girl; thats no way to spend Sunday.
So I say sure, Ive one or two questions about the Bible. In Genesis, God tells mankind to subdue the Earth, to go forth and multiply. Now that there are like 6,692,030,277 of us do they think we should stop?
I dont like people with hidden agendas so Ill put my cards on the table; I think this is bullshit. It wasnt God who said that but some Bronze-age holy man who thought the earth was flat. It never entered his darkest dreams that the world is like a huge ball and if you just keep on walking you come back to the same place.
He wasnt to know just how thoroughly man would trash the place they were subdueing in only 4000 years. Worse, its a crafty way of blaming God for it all by saying it was all his idea.
And they say (edging towards the door) maybe it means multiply in wisdom, not in numbers... And I want to say, if he meant increase in wisdom why didn'the say it? You wouldn't try marketing frozen fish fingers and leave out the 'fish' bit. Takes the piss, so it does. Anyway you know what men are like about listening to directions; might as well give a six-year-old a nail gun and say Go forth and nail
But by now my feet (and toast) are getting cold and the missionaries are starting every sentence with the bible tells us as though that makes it all ok. Sundays bad enough with being begged at by the religious.
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So the other day Im at my pad just making toast and generally minding my own business when the doorbell goes and its a cute 18ish blond girl (and her mum) asking me if I ever read the bible. You have to admire this in a way. I mean, its fucking Sunday morning in 2021 and two complete strangers are door-stepping me without even a trace of embarrassment, to talk about religion.
Now Im a pretty reasonable guy even in my bleary hungover state but Im not convinced they know any more about this than I do. And I feel bad for the girl; thats no way to spend Sunday.
So I say sure, Ive one or two questions about the Bible. In Genesis, God tells mankind to subdue the Earth, to go forth and multiply. Now that there are like 6,692,030,277 of us do they think we should stop?
I dont like people with hidden agendas so Ill put my cards on the table; I think this is bullshit. It wasnt God who said that but some Bronze-age holy man who thought the earth was flat. It never entered his darkest dreams that the world is like a huge ball and if you just keep on walking you come back to the same place.
He wasnt to know just how thoroughly man would trash the place they were subdueing in only 4000 years. Worse, its a crafty way of blaming God for it all by saying it was all his idea.
And they say (edging towards the door) maybe it means multiply in wisdom, not in numbers... And I want to say, if he meant increase in wisdom why didn'the say it? You wouldn't try marketing frozen fish fingers and leave out the 'fish' bit. Takes the piss, so it does. Anyway you know what men are like about listening to directions; might as well give a six-year-old a nail gun and say Go forth and nail
But by now my feet (and toast) are getting cold and the missionaries are starting every sentence with the bible tells us as though that makes it all ok. Sundays bad enough with being begged at by the religious.
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See now if I was a guy and some hot blond knocked at my door, I would have done something better about tit than argue religion with her.
haha