When toddlers sit on Santa's knee and tell him all the things they want for xmas, we take photos and post them on Facebook for everyone to go "aw, how sweet!" We as nominal grownups know the cold reality behind their innocent fantasies.
When grown adults kneel in serried ranks and do the same thing, we are expected to believe that this really works, that it has power to petition ultimate mercy and all that crap. Anyone who dares to say that, actually, this is pretty pointless is denounced as the abnormal one.
It's a funny old world.
When grown adults kneel in serried ranks and do the same thing, we are expected to believe that this really works, that it has power to petition ultimate mercy and all that crap. Anyone who dares to say that, actually, this is pretty pointless is denounced as the abnormal one.
It's a funny old world.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
