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Originally posted by ironweed
Apropos of this creepin' Jesus stuff, at our parent teacher conference I saw the lists my kid's first grade class made earlier this month with all of the things they were thankful for. "Jesus" "God" and "The Bible" appeared almost everywhere, including on my kid's list -- and I am raising her to be a lapsed Catholic in our family's grand tradition. She does get a bit of "Jesusito" from her mom and Grandmother, but if she has been inside a church more than 20 times since she was baptized I'd be shocked.
I don't think this is coming from the school (public), but the other kids and, of course, their parents. I am starting to get the feeling that a community I chose in part for its soulless materialism and liberal politics is actually infested with true believers. Now I am wary of my neighbors. How many of these people have read all of the "Left Behind" books, I wonder? How long before things get uncomfortable when I turn down the invite to a Bible study group, or find my kid listening to Christian Rock ("who gave you this? WHO?")
I thought these people were supposed to be in home schools, where they can't pollute the rest of the impressionable minds with crap like how God put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick all the scientists. I am praying* that my kid turns out to be something normal, like a Goth or something.
*ha!
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One of my proudest moments as a father came on the occasion of a Rosh Hashana dinner where my mother, in a vainglorious attempt to fake spirituality, sugggested that we commence the new year by going around the table and saying what we werre thankful for in the last year.
We went around, with everybody dutifully spouting the usual bullshit about their health, their family, etc. Then we came to Wonk Monster. Sweet, brilliant Wonk Monster. The product of a mixed marriage, he piped up in response to the question "What are you thankful for, Monster?"
"Jesus."
