WTF Email #2

For the second exciting installment of WTF Email, I submit to you, loyal reader(s): One Nation "Under God"

As with the last one, excerpts from the email are in italics.

Even the title on this one is a WTF:

One Nation "Under God",

Obviously, this is a reference to the Pledge of Allegiance, and the fact that it contains a reference to the Christian deity. An oft-forgotten fact about the Pledge is that it was changed during the Red Scare, but I digress.

One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children.

OHNOEZ, NOT TEH EVILUTIONZ! This should be interesting. Let's watch:

The teacher asked a little boy: Tommy do you see the tree outside?

TOMMY: Yes.

TEACHER: Tommy, do you see the grass outside?

TOMMY: Yes.

TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.

TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.

TEACHER: Did you see God up there?

TOMMY: No.

TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because he isn't there. Possibly he just doesn't exist.

Umm...what? No serious discussion about evolution would begin with "God doesn't exist" The two are completely unrelated, except in the minds of the devoutly religious (and even then it is mostly confined to the loonies who babble about "intelligent design"). True, there are many researchers, scientists, teachers and professors of evolution who are atheists, but there are also a great number of people who hold religious beliefs while also accepting the theory of evolution.

A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions.

Woohoo, here comes the hero. She's gonna set that heathen teacher straight!

The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?

TOMMY: Yes.

LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky?

TOMMY: Yessssss!

LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the teacher?

TOMMY: Yes

LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain?

TOMMY: No

LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school, she possibly may not even have one!

OMG PPL WHO DON'T BELIEVE LIKE ME ARE STOOPID LOL!

I will concede that the last argument is somewhat accurate given the context of the rest of the conversation, as long as we forget how ridiculous the rest of the conversation is. The idea that only observations made with the naked eye are valid is absurd. Forget the fact that the children could see her brain with an MRI scanner, but even then they still couldn't see any gods.

(You Go Girl!)

Yes, you go girl. Go with your self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude. If you really stick with it and refuse to believe any of that "science" witchcraft, you might be able to get through your entire public education without questioning your faith. Of course, the downside is that you won't absorb any real knowledge, and you'll play your part in perpetuating the vast circle-jerk of failure that is American's public education system.

FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT" II CORINTHIANS 5:7

I wonder how many people who forward these crappy emails actually take these quotes literally. I'd wager it wouldn't take long for someone's faith to cause them to stumble into a highway with their eyes squinted shut.

Don't forget to pass this on! I love this one..

I'm sure you do.

Everyone should send this to everyone they know, especially today with prayer restricted in schools.

Yeah, no. Repeat after me: there is no enormous conspiracy to persecute Christians. Student prayer is not really restricted in schools, aside from the requirement that such things do not interfere with the rest of the class. The only thing that is really frowned upon is prayer that is led by a teacher or organized by the school.

Forward if you believe in GOD!!!!

Yeah, I'll pass. There isn't anyone on my contacts list who would take this seriously. I, for one, find this mail vaguely offensive, the message behind it absurd, and the spirit in which it was written greatly insulting.


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The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak
I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
But generally my outlook's not so bleak...