Sinners cannot understand the Bible!
August 28, 2009 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2009 at 10:23 pm by dry land fish.)
Ok so since everyone feels I'm such a horrible terrible person over the US healthcare reform thread I have decided to talk about something else.
One of my co workers is a creationist. We were talking about the Bible and I said "I decided I thought Christianity was stupid when I read that a virgin had a baby. After that I couldn't get into it." She looked at me and said "Well I'm sure you'll make fun of me for saying this but my pastor says that sinners cannot understand the Bible and you can only know what it means after you are saved."
Ok...so if I'm saved then I'll understand how a virgin can have a baby? I'm thinking that won't change anything but I didn't say anything because I was at work and I didn't want to be unprofessional and basically make fun of her. Then she told me that she thought carbon dating was crap. Her pastor told the congregation that he buried his dead dog in his yard and then dug it up after it had been there a couple years and took the bones to a local college who did carbon dating. He had it dated and apparently he says that they said his dog was a few thousand years old. I felt sorry for her that she would believe such a story. This really concerns me that a pastor is lieing to his congregation and and that they are believing such an unbelievable story. No one is going to dig up their dead dog after it's been there for a couple of years. I mean animals are like our family and it would just be too hurtful to dig up a dead family member!!! Not to mention just sick. Then no one is going to tell anyone that a dog is a few thousand years old after doing carbon dating. He completely made it up!!!! Scary thought that someone so stupid can influence a large group of people.
Another co worker came into the conversation and asked me if I was a Christian. I thought all of my co workers knew I was a flaming Atheist. She told me I was going to go to hell and that hell was real and that she was going to pray for me because she loved me. I told her thanks for the concern but I wasn't going to ever become a Christian. She was just in shock that I said I didn't believe Hell existed. After that I swear if I didn't have someone come into my work for services who had on a shirt that said "bona fide Jesus Freak". They were looking at our museum and then asked me if we ever thought about teaching creation in our museum. I had a really bad feeling after that day of work. I went home and was upset because I feel sorry for my co worker for being so naive and I feel sorry for my other co worker because she's serioiusly going to worry herself and waste her time praying for me and it will all be for nothing. It also makes me feel terrible that preachers make up lies and try to make scientists look stupid and like we make things up and are quacks and tell their congregations things that are lies. It's dangerous and it's wrong to tell lies like that and they should feel horrible for brain washing people and turning their backs on science.
One of my co workers is a creationist. We were talking about the Bible and I said "I decided I thought Christianity was stupid when I read that a virgin had a baby. After that I couldn't get into it." She looked at me and said "Well I'm sure you'll make fun of me for saying this but my pastor says that sinners cannot understand the Bible and you can only know what it means after you are saved."
Ok...so if I'm saved then I'll understand how a virgin can have a baby? I'm thinking that won't change anything but I didn't say anything because I was at work and I didn't want to be unprofessional and basically make fun of her. Then she told me that she thought carbon dating was crap. Her pastor told the congregation that he buried his dead dog in his yard and then dug it up after it had been there a couple years and took the bones to a local college who did carbon dating. He had it dated and apparently he says that they said his dog was a few thousand years old. I felt sorry for her that she would believe such a story. This really concerns me that a pastor is lieing to his congregation and and that they are believing such an unbelievable story. No one is going to dig up their dead dog after it's been there for a couple of years. I mean animals are like our family and it would just be too hurtful to dig up a dead family member!!! Not to mention just sick. Then no one is going to tell anyone that a dog is a few thousand years old after doing carbon dating. He completely made it up!!!! Scary thought that someone so stupid can influence a large group of people.
Another co worker came into the conversation and asked me if I was a Christian. I thought all of my co workers knew I was a flaming Atheist. She told me I was going to go to hell and that hell was real and that she was going to pray for me because she loved me. I told her thanks for the concern but I wasn't going to ever become a Christian. She was just in shock that I said I didn't believe Hell existed. After that I swear if I didn't have someone come into my work for services who had on a shirt that said "bona fide Jesus Freak". They were looking at our museum and then asked me if we ever thought about teaching creation in our museum. I had a really bad feeling after that day of work. I went home and was upset because I feel sorry for my co worker for being so naive and I feel sorry for my other co worker because she's serioiusly going to worry herself and waste her time praying for me and it will all be for nothing. It also makes me feel terrible that preachers make up lies and try to make scientists look stupid and like we make things up and are quacks and tell their congregations things that are lies. It's dangerous and it's wrong to tell lies like that and they should feel horrible for brain washing people and turning their backs on science.
