One of my biggest questions was as to why there were no dinosaurs in the Bible, and I got a variety of answers, none of which were satisfactory, ranging from, "The dinosaurs were failures and God didn't put them on the ark and they weren't worth mentioning" to "There never were any dinosaurs, and the fossils were put in the rocks to test our faith"-special thanks to Mrs.
First, it was the book with the Behemoth and the Leviathan, and I was way into dinosaurs, as I still am. I did remember a few things from Sunday school, but oddly enough, the book that I took the most out of was Job.
My three younger brothers probably don't think of the Bible in the same way as I do, and have certainly been spared both the good and the bad of embarking on a lifelong spiritual quest I don't think that "spiritual" is really a word pertaining to any of them, as of now, anyway. My mother often lamented the leave, saying that we needed God in our family again, but it just never gelled, never took shape. "That was non-alcoholic wine," he responded, putting the last nail into that particular coffin with a real fervor.Īnd so, we secularized. "But, Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine!," they protested. They wanted to have champagne on their anniversary, and the pastor said, "No. Andrews, New Brunswick, on the mainland, my parents had left the church.
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It was a series of terrifying stories about so-and-so being raped and so-and-so being murdered. My wife, who was raised United, tells me that for her, Sunday school was just cake and Kool-Aid and songs about mustard seeds for me, it was something a bit different. It's not that my parents were particularly religious they just got caught up in the lot after they had their wedding there. I had a Baptist upbringing, and I remember being taught that the Bible really happened, that evolution had been disproved, and the like. We prayed and got the daily Bible story in class up until grade five. My wife, who was raised United, tells me that for he I grew up on Grand Manan Island in the 1990s, and the climate of the schools and churches was still like the 1950s. I grew up on Grand Manan Island in the 1990s, and the climate of the schools and churches was still like the 1950s. I wonder when enlightenment will hit me on the meaning of VAR.more And Messi(as), successor of Maradona, was just about to be publicly crucified when he was miraculously saved by the grace of football.Īs for me, football is my only religion, but I had managed to read the whole bible before I finally understood the offside rule. Suffering from a grandiosity complex, utterly macho and homophobic, with a strange sense of entitlement and a belief in their right to divine intervention, they are godlike, created in the image of their football gods. Of all the things the biblical god is and isn't, this sounds most plausible to me: a football fan, namely a fan of the Argentinan national team. Suffering from a grandiosity complex, utterly macho and homophobic, with a strange sense of entitlement and a belief in their right to divine intervention, they are godlike, created in the image of their football gods God's Hand is with Argentina, according to Messi, and thus god made him suffer brutally before seeing the team through to the round of 16. God's Hand is with Argentina, according to Messi, and thus god made him suffer brutally before seeing the team through to the round of 16.
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