Oh for the love of god...

[luciazephyr]

I have a girl named Maranda in my PE class. She's a Christian who reads the Bible every day. So we're arguing over which is better, French class or Spanish class, and we start tripping over the languages and start laughing.

Luce: Hee, gotta love foreign language classes.
Maranda: Unless you're flunking out of the class.
Luce: *giggle* This is why God wrote the Bible in English.
Maranda: Yes, exactly.

Um... Well... You know when you get that feeling that a joke you made just went right over someone's head? Happened here. I pointed out that the English thing was a joke, I was trying to be clever, haha. And she... stares at me!

Luce: You realize I'm joking right?
Maranda: About what?
Luce: The Bible! Being written in English!
Maranda: It is.
Luce: I mean, originally, when it was first written!
Maranda: *blinks* Yeah...

Dude, this is a red state on the Bible Belt and I'm a heathen, fair-weather agnostic/usual athetist.

English didn't exist back then, you neanderthal.

*cries*

-Luce

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

Try telling them about that whole aramiac and hebrew, followed by latin thing.

Heads spin. I swear.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

P.S. It's because you're a heathen that you know. There's a very interesting corollation between historical facts and biblical history and how many don't connect the two.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I did begin by explaining the aramaic/hebrew, then tried "Um.... ever heard of Latin?" "Wait. *smile* No. They speak that in Mexico." *slams head on brick wall*

And, yeah, excellent (and disturbing) point. With some people, it's like they read their dear old book and just take what they want from it. And, personally, I know parts of the Bible so I can throw Christians' words back at them for their goddamn hypocrisy.

[zero-dances.livejournal.com]

WOW. It's always entertaining when you meet dense Christians like that. When I went to a Catholic private school even the kidnergartners knew that it wasn't originally written in English.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

And I knew that since I learned what latin was! (Heard it in Harry Potter books at 11, decided to look it up on the net, a ha! history of latin, then other old languages.) And thanks for letting me know that about the religious schools. Makes me feel slightly better.

[zero-dances.livejournal.com]

Yes, trust me, the majoriety of us aren't THAT mind numbingly dumb. (Or at least I HOPE not. Maybe the people I met from school ages ago were just very special exceptions.)

[mice1900.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

This is why we need education in the schools. You know, that stuff they're throwing away for "Intelligent Design". I swear, it's all a plot by the Zygote of Mendes.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Did I mention the kid in my Adv. Biology class who requested the teacher to underline "Theory" when she wrote "Theory of Evolution" on the board?

*cry*

[aurora]

:(( :((

I have no words.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I'm the opposite. I have a lot of words. Most yelled loudly in an incredulous tone.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

It's Christians like that who make the baby hamster cry.

And then reach for the semi-automatic weapons.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

The whole "More people killed in the name of religion" shebang.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it's oh so satisfying to kill this one.

And I would see it more as a public service, because Darwin would just be like, "Dude, why is she NOT out of the gene pool yet? Kill it! Kill it NOW!"

*attempts to be funny? Fails miserably?*

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Darwin jokes are ALWAYS for the win, baby. *grin*

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was worried that I offended. *grin*

[honeyswallow.livejournal.com]

Wait, so I am the only one around here who has to learn Latin at school? O_O I didn't know that...

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I'm small town. We get French or Spanish, have shite computers, no advanced writing class (*rage!*), and the contempory issues classes keep getting dropped because you need more than three people to go out for them.

*sigh*

[honeyswallow.livejournal.com]

I'm small town, too. Meaning we have no computers. No working ones at least.