fairytales and crazy people who look "normal"

[miriam_e]

Normally I am very optimistic about the human race. We are amazing creatures. Each generation is smarter than the last and we are becoming a more moral and peaceful species. And then something happens to make me wonder if we have any hope at all.

This morning I was visited by two nice old ladies who drove here to bring the word of the lord to me. They looked normal but by any rational standard they were completely insane -- utterly divorced from reality. They happily held completely contradictory concepts in mind simultaneously without any inkling that something was wrong. I swear they didn't hear a word I said, because of course I would have been an emissary of the devil sent to try their faith.

These complete whack-jobs believed that before the flood people lived to an age of 900 years, that all life in the universe was created just several thousand years ago and the fossils are a cunning lie by god to trick us, that the mythical flood was the result of incredible masses of water, being held up high in the air by magic, dropped at god's command. They believe in the absolute word of the bible and that it holds no errors. They believe that being gay is unnatural despite it being a feature of every species on the planet. That it is alright to enslave other people, that women should be the servants of men, that conducting campaigns of mass murder upon those who believe in a different god is okay, that witches (you should kill them) and ghosts exist, and that you should be good to your neighbor. Stark staring mad!

What is it with some humans and fairytales? The weirder, the crazier, the more harebrained the idea, the stronger the compulsion to believe in it. It makes me incredibly sad that such delusion persists and is so actively cultivated.

Absolute lunacy!

Comments

Re: Christian(?)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

True. They are actually Paulians.

If anybody wished to look for an antichrist they need look no further than Paul of Tarsus. He wrote about half of the new testament, never actually met Jesus, was an arrogant, self-important, helfire-and-brimstone fundamentalist. Instead of preaching peaceful resistance against authority he sucked up to it. Social justice was out; personal wealth was okay by him. He was a misogynist, homophobic, sexually repressed screw-up who advised people not to get married because the end of the world was coming soon. When a bunch of converts got angry that he'd been spouting bullshit -- the end of the world hadn't come after they'd spent lots of money and effort -- what did Paul do? He ran away. Yes, on top of everything else he was a coward too.

I'd almost feel sorry for him except that he left us with such a legacy of hate for women, gays, and people of other religions that this poor, horrible, little man fucked us all royally.

Re: Christian(?)

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

That's fascinating. I always enjoy reading your contributions :)

Re: Christian(?)

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheheh :) [gives long, sweeping bow] Thank you Ma'am. :)

I feel a little guilty that I haven't been reading my friend-list entries lately, but I'm spending way too much time online and getting way too little work done. [gulp] I'll never get to be a millionaire at this rate... or even a hundredaire(?) in fact I'm gonna be lucky to be able to afford the petrol to visit Mum & Dad every fortnight... maybe if I just drive halfway there and turn around to drive back each time... :)

(Excuse my idiocy -- just the lingering after-effects of eating dinner while watching the Gilmore Girls.)