THE SEMBLANCE OF FUN

1. November 2009 by Frank.

I spent last night in the garage of some christians.  I thought we were going to a bonfire at the home of some christians.  I like bonfires, I don’t like garage parties.  I was not thrilled.

There was a fire but none of the adults wanted to go outside and enjoy it.  Apparently a large number of teenagers had been invited but only 4 grandchildren had shown up.  This didn’t bother my wife any but I felt cheated, no fire and teenagers!  Ugh!

So what I got instead was a bad night of really pathetic karaoke.

I don’t care about Halloween in the least but there are a couple of million better ways to spend an evening.

Apparently christians have no idea what dissonance means.  Witches, skulls, pumpkins, black cats, skeletons, ghosts and Jesus talk.  Having been such a serious fundy back in the day, I could never understand this then and it makes even less sense now.  The women got involved in a big discussion about witnessing, about showing the world they had something different and better to offer as an alternative to sin and evil.  And yet there we were surrounded by the symbols of sin and evil.  I just don’t get it.

There have been any number of blog posts the last few days about an article that temporarily showed up on Pat Robertson’s CBN site and a religious magazine site that denounced Halloween candy as being cursed by witches (among other things).  Even Countdown on MSNBC had an interview about it.  Pretty much everyone agreed that the article was too far off the deep end to be taken seriously.  Apparently even the christians at CBN’s website thought so, too, because the article was taken down soon after it started getting attention.  The problem with that is that as loony toons as the article was, it was biblically accurate and right in line with fundy thinking.  God condemns occult practices, witches, contacting the dead and states that demons are real.  So what does any bible believing believer have any business doing promoting any kind of image of such things?

The selective cognizance of most christians is a staggering thing.

Friday night (before sundown) I went with my SDA friend to help him get a new computer.  I had to drive because we might have been out past sundown before we got back.  When we did get back to his place he almost decided to leave the computer in my trunk instead of carrying it in his house because it was after sundown by then.  That meant it was the sabbath and therefore no work.

Fortunately he came to his senses and realized god wasn’t going to strike him dead for it.

I probably should have taken it home with me because I could have set it up in advance for him.  He has no tech abilities at all and I am rent a geek personified.  When I realized he was seriously thinking about not taking it in his house, I nearly burst out laughing.  Some of these situations I get myself into require way too much willpower on my part.

I can’t seem to get away from this stuff.

It would be so nice to get invited to some normal, non-christian function with some normal non-christians, but I don’t know how that can ever happen since I don’t know any such people.  So I guess I’ll have to plaster on my fake smile and pretend I’m having some semblance of fun a bit longer.

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