I don't feel like Christians are self-deprecating enough, so I thought I would take it upon myself to level the playing field. Here's the thing you may (or may not) need to know about me - and that's although I do not go to Church, and I "apparently" partake in many less-than-God-like activities (however, I'm a firm believer that if he didn't want us to feel that good, he wouldn't have built us this way, but I digress.) I do, in fact, believe in God and that there was such a man as Jesus. I'm not afraid of what will happen to me for saying dumb things about him - I believe he's got a wicked sense of humor... I mean, just look at the platypus.*
I have always been good at history and mythology and after one full year of going to Church, I had learned all the stories down to the letter, so when it started over again, I was like, "Whoa. What's this... RE-RUNS?!" And it really annoyed me that the priest had to use a book to read from when I could recite it. Every year after just continually re-affirmed my boredom. Dude! I've heard this one!
I should also mention the whole hypocrisy of organized religion and the disgusting and ignorant things that are carried out 'in the name of religion', but that's a whole different beast. Just watch Dogma, really - and I'll put my giant ditto quotes around the entire underlying message of that movie.
Aaaaaanyhow, after a few of my special Holy Week tweets, I received this:
Really? I have no idea how someone could POSSIBLY make that assumption...
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* totally stole that from Kevin Smith. Whatever.










You had me from the get go. I was waiting to see what blasphemy you would come up with next and now I can't wait for Christmas! Sorry about your buzzer- and the er too? Oh my. I still think it would be funny if a certain train made that comment as well.
---signed part of the Eastmas church-going crowd.