mercoledì 20 settembre 2023

What's it all about?

 Alfie?

I was out early this morning delivering my elderly neighbour's paper to her door. On my return home, I noticed a little pamphlet in my letterbox that immediately made me think of Alfie.


I looked through to see who it was from, but nobody was mentioned. Not the Mormons, the Baptists, the Catholics* nor the Presbyterians. No one laid claim to this little pamphlet. Maybe it came directly from God?

I had a bit of time to kill, before my early start at work, so I read it.


The pamphlet started off with a few quick questions and then an answer.

  • Why are we here?
  • What is the purpose of our existence?
  • Are we here simply to enjoy life, have a big house... etc. etc.?
  • Then it shot straight to the answer - no more mucking around.

    Our purpose is to know God... etc.

    Then it got straight onto a comparison between people (sinful) and God (perfect)



    It then told us that God is love, but he is also holy, perfect and just.

    Then we were told about the lake of fire that awaits us if we don't play the game.

    It doesn't sound like love to me, more like power.

    Then it goes on a bit longer.





    It struck me that this was a pamphlet written by someone with a very low IQ that is intended for others with a very low IQ.

    Well, for a start, it tells us nothing exciting or new and, secondly, it goes into absolutely nothing that might back up their case.

    This is a very silly little pamphlet.

    This is the silliest little pamphlet I've ever seen.

    The Curmudgeon writes posts that are much better than this pamphlet. (mostly)

    Robert has more amusing things in his posts.


    There you have it.

    Ciao tutti.




    * The one true church? 

    8 commenti:

    THE WINE GUY ha detto...

    We have a silly and skulking Christian person in our area who puts crap like that in letterboxes overnight.
    In our letterbox we have a snail which eats the mail. I leave the Christian (and the right wing political) pamphlets in the box for Mr Snail to eat.
    Hopefully Mr Snail will go to heaven when he dies. He'll be in the right company there with the reactionary views that he'll have ingested.

    Anonimo ha detto...

    Ah, I've heard of snail mail.

    Fr. Richard (of RBB)

    THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

    Your jokes are improving.
    I’m glad I could help.

    THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

    The puerile rubbish written in that pamphlet is no real surprise.
    The junk that Robert publishes, purportedly written by famous religious people also looks like something a child or a lowIQ person would write. The fact that hundreds of millions of people turn off their reasoning and critical abilities to adopt it bewilders me.

    Anonimo ha detto...

    La mamma degli imbecilli è sempre incinta.

    Riccardo (di RBB)

    Anonimo ha detto...

    Perché? Why?

    THE CURMUDGEON ha detto...

    I guess an over reliance on information sources like Bing kind of proves the saying as well.

    Anonimo ha detto...

    Very good TC!

    Richard (the guy who has delt with quite a few imbeciles in his time)