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]

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.