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| Overthinking the Bible #1.
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Having been raised in a Christian home all of my life, I'm no stranger to the Bible. Yet, given my inquisitive and odd nature, I sometimes think about certain passages and elements to such a different degree that I either discover something poignant that I've never seen before, or I find something odd/strange that makes me laugh. This blog is about the latter.
A little backround about me before I start: From age 4-12, I thought farts, belches, and any sort of scatalogical humor was the greatest thing on earth. Fastforward about 6 years to today, and you'll find that, while I don't crack fart jokes anymore (no pun intended...unless it made you laugh. In which case, I take full credit), I still think there's something funny about them. I mean, seriously, they're hilarious, and, growing up, I could never understand why something so natural and so funny could be so taboo. It was only in the past year that I finally came to the conclusion that, obviously, God made us this way, therefore, God must think farts are funny, too. Think about it. If releasing gas is SOOOO horrible, then #1. We would have been made differently, and #2. Guys wouldn't think it's funny. So, why not? Call me sacrilegeous if you wish, but when The Trinity were designing humans, they had to be laughing fit to burst when the proposition of expelling wind came up.
Here's another though: When Jesus came to earth, he spent the years of his ministry in the company of fisherman - one of the lowest social castes of Jewish culture (just above shepherds). These were men who hung out in boats all day, smelling of sea spray and fish guts *Insert Tim Allen grunt*, and there were 12 of them. Now, wouldn't you think that these "uncultured" men would be prone to bursts of scatalogical humor? For one thing, you have one of the most boring jobs. You sit in a boat in the sun catching fish. It's not very intellectually stimulating. So, whenever the opportunity for humor arises, you have to go with it. So, I figure, there had to be times at night around the fire when these guys just acted...well...like guys around a campfire! Now, according to scripture, Jesus was both fully God and fully human. He experienced every thought, temptation, whatever that people experience, yet never sinned and was perfect in every way. So, given his part in the formation of humans thousands of years before, you'd think he'd join in the fun. Heck, Jesus was human, so he had to have farted, too! Now that I think about it, it'd be preposterous to assume that such activity didn't go on. You can't hang around with 12 manly men for 3 and a half years and not have farts come up at least a couple hundred times.
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Posted by TRBird on 2008-07-02 20:02:32 | Rating: | Views: 78
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FANTASTIC!!! . Oh i am in tears of laughter reading this . Its nice to see a bit of humour around religion . Best post i have read so far , in fact i am going to bookmark it . Great fun! .
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Posted by Greylynx
on 2008-07-02 20:30:07
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lol good post. could have done without the farting though haha =]oh and thanks 4 the comment!
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Posted by allykatt9969
on 2008-07-04 12:53:17
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