Comments on: These people are a disgrace

By: Suze

Suze — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:57:26 +0000

I’m a little late to this post, but I have to tell you. I can remember sitting in the church basement for Sunday school, reading a Little Golden Book about the Adam & Eve story. My 5-year-old takeaway was that, by eating the apple, Eve chose free will, and all of history happened. Without her having done that, it would have been nothing but Adam & Eve in the garden with all the animals, the end. It didn’t have a big emotional impact on me, that was just my interpretation. I didn’t talk to any adults about it, so it didn’t get corrected out of me.

Fast-forward 15 years (to the late ’80’s), and I was a young woman reading a bunch of feminist tracts and goddess-centric pseudo-archeology explorations that were always introduced with a story about how much the authors had suffered their whole lives long, being punished for Eve’s sin. I swear, I actually had to get somebody to explain to me what Eve’s sin was. I still don’t really get it.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:10:45 +0000

…but I’d probably just roll my eyes, disappointed she isn’t as far along as I’d thought.

Eh, well, I wasn’t even THAT far along, so it was a wash. LOL

By: The Franchise

The Franchise — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:36:05 +0000

Why didn’t the english teacher know better?

I like to think I would respond with “No, it’s what I believe, *and* how it really happened.”

…but I’d probably just roll my eyes, disappointed she isn’t as far along as I’d thought.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:43:32 +0000

Beware, though, the movie is heartbreaking, but oh so worth it.

By: barbara (kitten)

barbara (kitten) — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:06:55 +0000

Thanks for suggesting Shine.

I love the description of what happened in your English class.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:49:47 +0000

What were you trying to do? HTML works on this blog, so now I am all a-puzzlements.

By: Th.

Th. — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:47:49 +0000

Huh. I guess that means my html was rejected?

By: Th.

Th. — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:47:24 +0000