Sunday, 2 May 2010

Do not discuss religion with my mother !!

Well it finally happened,after all these years of attempted indoctrination I have shouted at my mother to stop trying to convince me of a benevolent sky fairy.
I had rung her to tell her the good news about our Sarahs baby,she had another scan friday and it seems one of the arteries that was too small has started to grow and if things keep on the way they are he may not need surgery straight after his birth..........sadly he still has other heart abnormalities so will need surgery eventually no matter what.
Mother started lecturing me on how good her brand of sky fairy was and it was all because her church had been praying for him,she went on and on and on,in the end I yelled down the phone so she would stop and listen,I explained that if her god exists and he was any sort of a decent chap the baby wouldn't be born with life threatening defects,so in my opinion if there is a god he is an evil and cruel creature,I even tried the philosophical debate with her which goes..................
  1. God exists.
  2. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.
  3. A perfectly good being would want to prevent all evils.
  4. An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence.
  5. An omnipotent being, who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, has the power to prevent that evil from coming into existence.
  6. A being who knows every way in which an evil can come into existence, who is able to prevent that evil from coming into existence, and who wants to do so, would prevent the existence of that evil.
  7. If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being, then no evil exists.
  8. Evil exists (logical contradiction)
 Still she went on and on about her elderly aunts church praying too,in the end I just said I agreed to differ and hung up........

2 comments:

seasidegirl said...

lol you're a late developer
Try being the only eleven year old in a class of 30 leaving a Church of England primary school for secondary school who refuses to be confirmed with all the others!

Great news about the baby, though. I expect you were so annoyed because you were so happy and wanted to share and mum was trying to give the credit to God.

Still, hurrah for the little chap, in there fighhting. Brilliant news.

that_woman said...

I have spent all these years avoiding yelling at her for sky fairy nonsense,but this time I just couldn't hold it back........still she seems to have forgotten all about it already,ruddy woman,there was me feeling all guilty and horrid !