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From one pumpkin to another!!!!!!!+++++++++++++++++++++++++
A woman was asked by a coworker,
'What is it like to be a Christian?'
The coworker replied, 'It is like being a pumpkin.' God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you.
Then He cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, and greed. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see.'
This was passed on to me by another pumpkin.
Now it's your turn to pass it to other pumpkins.
I liked this enough to send it to all the pumpkins in my patch.
So God will open up your head, scoop out your brains, and carve a permanent smile on your face? To a thinking person, that's not a selling point. I'm half wondering if this wasn't intended to be satire, with the message being: In order to believe in God, you have to have a lobotomy.
This just proves that some Christians will use any image, no matter how horrifying or inappropriate, to talk about God.
2 comments:
Yeah, I've always felt the same way about the sheep/shepard metaphor. Sheep are really, really dumb animals, I never thought that was flattering to believer at all, yet they embrace it completely. So I guess they are sheep, too stupid to realize they're being insulted by their own beliefs.
If the seeds are your ego, the pumpkin is a Buddhist. If the seeds are other gods, then the pumpkin is a Muslim. If the seeds are your inner light, the pumpkin is Satanist, and Satan just harvested your soul.
Pumpkins metaphors -- they give so much, and ask for so little.
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