Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumTwo Moms at the L.A. Zoo
I recently went to the Los Angeles Zoo, just because I hadn't been there in ages. Wanted to see the new koala bear hangout and the rain forest exhibit and other stuff.
While eyeballing the giraffes, I overheard a woman talking to her little boy: "...yes, Noah took TWO giraffes on the Ark! Look at how BIG they are!" Yatta-yatta-yatta...
I just walked away, before I could have an Atheist Hulk moment.
Another Mom sort of made up for Mrs. Noah. Her little girl started swinging on some bars that I think are just meant for Zoo employees to use.
"That's great, honey! You're almost as good as your cousins over there!" Meaning the monkeys.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)Or was the T-Rex still a vegetarian in those days? I forget. Ken Ham or Ray Comfort would know.
Bryce Butler
(338 posts)All animals were vegetarian until Adam and Eve sinned. So the T-Rex on the ark would've been a meat eater.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)if T-Rex was a dah-no-sa-wr or a bird? Sounds like it could be kina fluttery in that there Ark.
and lots of licentious and lascivious goin ons.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,320 posts)Please, PLEASE get it on video.
:::::all sweet sing-songy voice to start, then progressivly louder::::::;
"That's right little girl, all of that is true EXCEPT THE PART ABOUT THE ARK AND THE REST OF WHAT SHE SAID!!!!" ARRRRRRGHGHGHGH!!!!!"
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)If that kid is having some problems with fitting giraffes on the ark, and then keeps thinking about this and all the other animals in the entire world fitting, who knows where that will go.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)If all those animals went in, no tellin what kind of animals came out! All mixed up like that.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I always wondered about that. Thanks for getting it through my thick skull.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)I was expecting a story about lesbians at the zoo.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I'm listening...
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Look up Fifty Shades of Neigh
mr blur
(7,753 posts)I can admit that because I'm an atheist and thus have no morals.
enki23
(7,786 posts)It's also silly bullshit that would make an amusing "how the tiger got his stripes" story if we weren't living under a regime dominated by fucking morons who think it's all true. But that part goes without saying. Or it would, if it weren't for the fucking morons. Who are most of the morons. Who are most of the people. Holy fuck.
Anyway, yeah. I live in a county that voted over 70% for Romney. There's a neighbor county that was over 85%. If I heard that exchange, I'd assume the second mom was trying to be "ironic."
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)It is child abuse. Tragically.... the stupid pass on their lies and lunacy
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... and told us how her teacher had told her "the cross" was made of dogwood...because the flowers, y'know, have 4 petals and so on and so forth. ( I was also told this as a kid....but didn't even begin to believe it)
I wanted to say "Oh fer Christ sake!....." but more tactfully asked "Do dogwoods grow in the Middle East? We should look it up."
BTW.... they don't. The common kind, that has clusters of little white flowers and not the 4 petal version, does grow in Eurasia... but it's range is only to southern Scandinavia. The kind the teacher was referring to, with the cross-like flowers, is the "flowering dogwood" native to North America.
The baloney kids are told. I'll bet the teacher doesn't even believe it.
onager
(9,356 posts)It got trotted out every Easter. And never could compete with eggs, bunnies and all the other pagan fertility symbols.
Another yarn often heard - that the Baptist church was started by John The Baptist. When it really originated in the early 17th-century Netherlands.
My Methodist aunt used to say there was only one thing wrong with Baptists - they didn't hold us under long enough.