The Antichristian Phenomenon

This time no world news, no long essays. Just a little story about what happened to me today. You know, the kind of thing blogs exist for in the first place.

Over here, we have this christian sect called Jehovah’s witnesses. I think they’re international. Today I was home alone, and two of them rung my doorbell. As a small kid I was already taught never to open the door for preachers. But heck, I was curious. Besides, I wanted to see how they would deal with their faith under pressure. If it’s of any interest, I was wearing my T-shirt from Stormwarrior as I welcomed them inside. A shirt depicting a Viking warrior who smashes in a christian preacher’s skull.

I offered them a seat and a coffee, and then I began my questioning. Question one went something like: “Is it true your sect interprets the bible as being literal?”

The two witnesses in question were a young couple. A man and a woman. I doubt they’re much older than I am. Early 20s, around 25 at most. The guy started his rhetoric, about how they weren’t a sect, and that I had to choose my words different. Then the woman added that the word interpret was also judgemental, because the bible is god’s direct word, and therefore not open to interpretation. Anyway, given their objections I just smiled and added that they answered my first question enough.

My second question was: “Coming from a bible that is the direct word of an infallible god, what existed first. Humans or trees?” Both answered the trees. Now, that’s fine. Genesis 1 (fn) does indeed state that mankind was created last. Genesis 2 (fn) however states that man was created, then everything else was created, then man was placed in it.

So basically, I pointed this out to them. Apparently they weren’t very trained preachers yet. Because after just one contradiction they already began mumbling about how they would have to check with their “Elder” and that they themselves weren’t wise enough to answer such a critical question.

Last words we shared as they left the house were “If your elder can’t answer the question properly, feel free to return. I’m keeping two chairs reserved at the dark side.” After which they were racing to get away from me as soon as possible.

It was so cute to see. Two young people, so in love, so bonded together. And so misguided. I love that kind of people. They give me a reason to keep fighting.

And to conclude. While I was doing some research to doublecheck that I didn’t say anything wrong to them, I stumbled across the wikipedia disambiguation page of genesis. They had a long list of the term genesis in fiction. Yet the bible story wasn’t in that category. I corrected this error and classified the bible story under fiction together with the genesises from Marvel, DC and Star Trek. I wonder if that counts as vandalism or not though.

Footnotes:

Genesis 1: [After creating everything else] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Genesis 2: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.