Take My Aunt the Fundie--Please!

[Demeter]

Auntie was always a little strange and different (well, the whole family is, myself included; she was obviously more so) and usually on the losing side of any Reality-based argument. Being educated by nuns certainly didn't help.

So when Auntie remarried (so much for the Church's disapproval of divorce) she found a man who was righteous (read pig-headed, even more than us Pollacks) and converted to a Faith-based form of arguing.

Nobody could trump her now. Facts are totally immaterial. If God said something, or Jesus, or her own quirky brain could make the case that one of them said it, or Limbaugh, or whoever was designated Oracle of the Day, then the argument was over.

Religion (capital R) is the opposite of Education. You don't have to know anything, prove anything, feel anything (except superior) or atone for anything. Bullets will stop you, but not facts. Reality may catch up with you in the end, but you'll get your way until then, and drive everyone around you who isn't persuaded by your own personal Messiah crazy.

Nobody talks to Auntie much any more, not even her kids. Strangely enough, she and her husband are enamored of Harry Potter, though. Even in Religion, my Auntie marches to a slightly different beat.

[waiting for hope]

1. OOOhhh, Harry Potter is the Devil!

:sarcasm:

[ms liberty]

2. no thanks, I've got enough wacko fundies in my own family! n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. somethimes

The only thing you can do is shake your head and walk away.

[Vidar]

4. Very nice. I especially like "designated Oracle of the Day".

However, the National League may no allow this position.

[xenu]

5. Why is auntie into Harry Potter?

I thought that fundies said that Harry Potter endorsed witchcraft.

[Demeter]

6. No Idea. She and Uncle Just Are

They have all the books on CD (and we're talking 100's of CDs for the unabridged versions) and listen to them each night.

Maybe it's genetic. Or just the best thing around in fiction these days, television being what it isn't anymore.

[Demeter]

7. I Think It's The Power Of Magical Thinking!

Upon reflection, what else defines the godhead of Bush, etc? Magical thinking. It is logical, if one can use that phrase in this context, to be enamoured of Harry Potter if one thinks magically all the time.

Other Fundies, more into the hell-fire and damnation aspects of their cult, devil-worship, and the like, will be repulsed by a story which uses the words "magic", "witch" and "wizard", even though the Harry Potter definitions have absolutely nothing to do with their definitions of these terms. But to know that, they would actually have to read the damn books, and we can't let an actual fact or a life experience enter into the equation, now, can we? Wouldn't be right, wouldn't be godly. Bush doesn't read, and neither do his hard-core supporters. That's what they like about him. That's how they identify with him.

So sad for the nation, to have such tiny little dried up minds in it.