Updates On Sarah Mally's Page Annoy Me

[nelliebelle1197]

That rose metaphor is squick.

[AmyP]

oh ick.

[AlexIsAwake]

They want to bus international students to the Creation Museum? Are you fucking kidding me? If I were a Christian trying to convert someone to my faith, someone who is probably fairly intelligent (international students are usually quite bright from my experience) and comes from a country where they haven't been immersed in the myths of Christianity their entire life, a place like the Creation Museum is going to do nothing except show them how gullible and anti-science these Christians are. I visited there a few years ago, and it was absolutely laughable. Wax figures do not make a science a museum. They make a wax museum. There is very little science to be found there. I remember aside from the wax figures and the little wooden ark replica there was maybe one room with videos playing on a few screens, trying to explain something about the continents all having begun as one giant continent prior to Noah's flood, blah blah blah. Then there was a planetarium with some cool visual effects, telling you how the 6,000 year old universe was so vast, and aren't we lucky to be the one place where God created life. Oh, and then there was the book store. I believe there was more "science" there than anywhere, available for purchase of course. The place was a giant joke. I couldn't believe I wasted my money expecting to see something that would make me think there was an iota of truth to creationism.

[Mela99]

I also join you in the preapology. I admit I rarely look at the Mally blog, but reading the part about wanting to take the Chinese students to the creation museum annoyed me. I bet there is a specific reason that CRU group is targeting Chinese students. There was CRU group at my college, but I don't remember them ever trying to proselytize to the international students.

There was a very, VERY active CRU group at my college. They were the worst. They used weird advertising to trick people to coming to sessions - one was entitled A History of Porn - and they started talking about how Satan created it. They tried to get EVERYBODY in. They even recruited 'interns' to help the crazy ass pastor who lectured on the campus every day.

[Hane]

From same blog but quoting Sarah Mally's book. First, I am not a rose anymore than I was a cow when my mom told me that men won't buy the cow if they can get the milk for free....

thenarrowpassage.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/pure-white/

"thenarrowpassage" Hee hee hee! Get it? The narrow passage!!1!!!11!!! [/12-year-old boy]

[Just_Jane]

"thenarrowpassage" Hee hee hee! Get it? The narrow passage!!1!!!11!!! [/12-year-old boy]

My inner perv has been giggling over that.

[javafriend]

Does Sarah know that most Chinese college students are very smart and a trip to the Creation Museum will probably be very effective in making them think Christians are nuts?

BTW - While traveling to Kentucky this past weekend, I saw several billboards for the Creation Museum. They were advertising a dragon exhibit. How do dragons fit in with the cavemen-riding-dinosaurs view of history?

[Trynn]

Does Sarah know that most Chinese college students are very smart and a trip to the Creation Museum will probably be very effective in making them think Christians are nuts?

BTW - While traveling to Kentucky this past weekend, I saw several billboards for the Creation Museum. They were advertising a dragon exhibit. How do dragons fit in with the cavemen-riding-dinosaurs view of history?

I've heard it suggested (though not all creationists believe this) that, since almost every culture has some sort of dragon myths in their lore, it is possible that dragons were really dinosaurs. These folks believe that dinosaurs could have had the ability to breath fire (or at least smoke. Can't the Kimodo (sp) breath sparks or something?)

So anyway, the creation museum having a dragon exhibit, from that perspective, would make sense.

[DutchieV]

I have to say, I'm an evangelical Christian and a rape survivor. And I fight against that rose analogy ANYWHERE I encounter it in the church. I can't tell you how incredibly damaging it was to my self-esteem during my teens as I recovered from my rape. To hear that metaphor that somehow my "petals" were ripped and that no man would want to handle the damaged rose - yeah, it made me sleep around for a while in the aftermath. I mean, if I was already "ruined" - why the hell not ?

The thing that people making up these analogies don't seem to get is - it's not about some guy wanting you or not wanting you or if your petals are pure enough for him. If you believe in the importance of purity, then it is between you and God and you desire "purity" because you believe it will be pleasing to God. It has NOTHING to do with being some ripe vessel ready for the plucking by a man, and I hate that the rose allegory insinuates otherwise.