A fundie kid came on today, asked me if I “believe in god”. I said I don’t particularly care if there was one, one way or another. They replied by asking, wasn’t I aware that god died for my sins? I’m going to go to hell unless I get this through my thick skull. God will put me there.
“Your god maybe,” I replied, “What I believe in is a little kinder to humans than that”
“HOW CAN YOU LIVE AND NOT WONDER WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE???”
“Created? Sorry kid, have you ever heard of evolution?”
His reply, quoted letter for letter:
“EVOLUTION IS A STUPI D THEORY MADE UP BY CARL MARX, THINGS DON’T JUST HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT, THEY ALL HAVE A REASON FROM GOD”
Now, alright, never minding that Karl Marx is spelled with a K, what sort of “education” is this child receiving?
The United States of faith not fact, under one holy flag we fly, mincing religion and falsehood with a fabricated history where we win all the wars and god spake to us from washington against the dirty red menace, because whiskey tango foxtrot, my loves, this is one strange assertation.
edit: Michel has some brilliant comments to add to the matter,
“Actually, he and Darwin were probably in the League of Nineteenth Century Evildoers or something. So he’s not so far from the Alan Moorey truth. Let’s not forget Richard Wagner, writing operas where it’s evil to pile up all the gold you can get your hands on, and heroes have sex before marriage.”
“And Jesus on a toothpick, I hate your job. Though you deserve kudos for not telling those kids to go fuck an outlet.”
addendum: metaquoted with 100+ comments.
also: an edit of someone’s userinfo