I did something wicked [View all]
My sisters and I took a road trip to Weed, CA, for the memorial service of a dear friend. It was a wonderful, sad, well-attended event, held at Mark's favorite place: the Mt Shasta Brewing Company. (Excellent lager.)
We split the drive over four days. On Friday, we drove from Huntington Beach to Pleasanton, not far from San Jose, on the first leg. In Pleasanton we stayed at a decent hotel. The first thing I do when I get to my hotel is to look for Gideon. I wasn't disappointed on Friday, for there it was in the nightstand drawer.
Some of you will be aware that fundamentalist Christians believe in the bible as the literal and infallible word of god.
I seated myself comfortably on the bed, phone in one hand and Sharpie in the other. I turned to a mostly-blank page in the front of the book. With my Sharpie, I wrote my heading near the top:
CONTRADICTIONS
How can the "word of god" be infallible if it contains contradictions? Short, logical answer: it can't.
I looked up contradictions dealing with seeing god (some people did, but in the epistles it says that no one has seen god); personal injury (an eye for an eye vs. turn the other cheek); incest (some definite con verses, but Abraham married his sister, Sara); and more.
I spent a delicious, wicked 45 minutes with Gideon. Good thing I don't believe in hell.
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