Shopping in Safeway
Me (wonderful me): What did you learn at church today?
Derek (precocious son): I learned about pumpkins and how we are like pumpkins.
Me: We? Pumpkins? How so?
Derek: Christians.
Me: o_O...Christians? You and I?
Derek: Yeah.
Me: I'm not a Christian, you can be one if you'd like, but I'm not. That's a religion and you can pick which religion you'd like, and I don't really have a religion.
Derek: Oh. Maybe not Christian, some other word?
Me: People? Homo sapiens? We are both that.
Derek: Nah.
Ok. So. I can see why he'd just think that everyone was like him. Much as he believed that since George Bush is president, everyone MUST have voted for him. No way, dude.
I like that he had fun. I even like that he wants to go back. I'm happy that he has found something to believe in for now. Kids and Faith are a lot more common than Adults and Faith.
I'm at a loss about how to talk about such things with him some times. I don't want to make him think it's a bad thing, nor do I want him shoving it at us. I guess we'll see how it all pans out in the long run.
I'm having more problems with what they are teaching him at school. Things like how we went to Iraq to look for WMDs and they were SURE they had them, but we haven't been able to find any.
I've had to bite my tongue many times when I want to try and explain that,
A. They SAY that's why they went over there, but Mr. Bush Sr. also had a war to pick with Iraq. Kind of feels like maybe sonny boy is finishing it off, and
B. They didn't find ANYTHING. I think they made the whole effing thing up.
You know what though? That's only my OPINION about the politics. The only people who truly know are George Bush (at least for the reasons why) and the Iraqi people (on the whole WMD situation).
And I find that South Park skews my take on political things, so maybe I'm just a liberal jackass?
For instance,
The whole episode about climbing to heaven and Saddam having WMDs there? That has helped my whole point of view. Helped or hindered, who knows?
I'm crazy like that. I have to get my politics from somewhere. =)
Derek (precocious son): I learned about pumpkins and how we are like pumpkins.
Me: We? Pumpkins? How so?
Derek: Christians.
Me: o_O...Christians? You and I?
Derek: Yeah.
Me: I'm not a Christian, you can be one if you'd like, but I'm not. That's a religion and you can pick which religion you'd like, and I don't really have a religion.
Derek: Oh. Maybe not Christian, some other word?
Me: People? Homo sapiens? We are both that.
Derek: Nah.
Ok. So. I can see why he'd just think that everyone was like him. Much as he believed that since George Bush is president, everyone MUST have voted for him. No way, dude.
I like that he had fun. I even like that he wants to go back. I'm happy that he has found something to believe in for now. Kids and Faith are a lot more common than Adults and Faith.
I'm at a loss about how to talk about such things with him some times. I don't want to make him think it's a bad thing, nor do I want him shoving it at us. I guess we'll see how it all pans out in the long run.
I'm having more problems with what they are teaching him at school. Things like how we went to Iraq to look for WMDs and they were SURE they had them, but we haven't been able to find any.
I've had to bite my tongue many times when I want to try and explain that,
A. They SAY that's why they went over there, but Mr. Bush Sr. also had a war to pick with Iraq. Kind of feels like maybe sonny boy is finishing it off, and
B. They didn't find ANYTHING. I think they made the whole effing thing up.
You know what though? That's only my OPINION about the politics. The only people who truly know are George Bush (at least for the reasons why) and the Iraqi people (on the whole WMD situation).
And I find that South Park skews my take on political things, so maybe I'm just a liberal jackass?
For instance,
The whole episode about climbing to heaven and Saddam having WMDs there? That has helped my whole point of view. Helped or hindered, who knows?
I'm crazy like that. I have to get my politics from somewhere. =)
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