A young woman teacher with obvious liberal tendencies explains to her class of small children that she is an atheist. She asks her class if they are atheists too. Not really knowing what atheism is but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks.
There is, however, one exception. A beautiful girl named Lucy has not gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different. "Because I'm not an atheist." "Then," asks the teacher, "what are you?" "I'm a Christian."
The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she was a Christian. "Well, I was brought up knowing and loving Jesus. My mom is a Christian, and my dad is a Christian, so I am a Christian."
The teacher is now angry. "That's no reason," she says loudly. "What if your mom was a moron, and your dad was a moron. What would you be then?" A pause, and a smile. "Then," says Lucy, "I'd be an atheist."
2007-03-06 23:52:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Childish insults? What's your point?
Surely you don't imagine that we look at this and think "Oh, man, he nailed us with that one! I now realize that I have been acting so foolishly that even a young child could outthink me!", right?
Instead, what we think is "Oh, look, yet another Christian who thinks that childish insults make him look clever" and "Wow, imagine how dimwitted you'd have to be to find that story even remotely plausible or insightful".
I assume that you weren't shooting for "I'd like to make people think I'm childish and dimwitted", and so you fell far short of whatever your goal really was.
2007-03-07 00:11:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I prefer this version:
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A young woman teacher with obvious fundamentalist tendencies explains to her class of small children that she is a christian. She asks her class if they are christians too. Not really knowing what christianity is but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks.
There is, however, one exception. A beautiful girl named Lucy has not gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different. "Because I'm not a christian." "Then," asks the teacher, "what are you?" "I'm an atheist."
The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she was an atheist. "Well, I was brought up knowing and loving science. My mom is an atheist, and my dad is an atheist, so I am an atheist."
The teacher is now angry. "That's no reason," she says loudly. "What if your mom was a moron, and your dad was a moron. What would you be then?" A pause, and a smile. "Then," says Lucy, "I'd be a christian."
2007-03-07 08:22:12 · answer #2 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That again, huh? It'd be funny if it actually happened and you were there, but it's too long and not funny enough to work as a joke when it's retold. And it's too short and not lame enough to work as a shaggy dog story.
Plus it has the drawback that none of the labels actually influence the joke. It could just as easily be a Christian teacher and an atheist student, or a teacher that likes the colour blue and a student who prefers red.
2007-03-07 08:02:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Human usually labelling religious as good or bad or evil or holly which are selective mind and superinsitution. Actually they are sheep who do not want to find out what is a religious why religious tell people to do this not that. Why this religious tell people to did this at that moment. Some of the mystery part they do not want to understand. It is because people are lazy to read and find. The easy way is to obey or superinsituation; treat and believe then is good enough but they are trust with doubt and believe something they think OK according to their own feeling.
100 years later, I dare to say only Toa which telling about most chemically reaction and body health , and Budhaist which are telling mostly about psychology and spiritual thing interreactive with the body, can still existing.
Other religious will be faded out.
2007-03-07 08:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by johnkamfailee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now Ryan, listen closely:
"Did that really happen, or was it a fictional story intended to present a particular point of view?"
The above test can be applied not only to the narrative you have just presented to us all, but to all the narratives that people have told you.
Try it.
2007-03-07 08:05:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
"their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks."
Sorry, I gave the other guy credit for this amusing little tidbit.
As for your question:
for you, it's only $74.99 for two weeks' supply!
2007-03-07 08:18:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you come up with that all by yourself?
LIEK OMG, you are SO clever.
I mean, I've NEVER SEEN that joke before. Never in the 10 years it's been circulating around the internet. Ever.
2007-03-07 08:06:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Non of those children know the answer as adults don't. We do not really know who God is, if he is, if he is not, what he is, etc... Similar to this is the story of Jesus.
We just explode our hand to and try to believe or try not to believe.
The fact is that most of us do not know.
2007-03-07 07:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by PINKO P 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She was my teacher and I'm damaged for life!
2007-03-07 08:19:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my psychology class we learned that jokes often reveal a deep subconcious fear. Your example is particularly rich with what you fear.
2007-03-07 08:08:10 · answer #10 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋