Spice of
The existence of lesbians is giving my mother a crisis of faith. Apparently.
She said that the news at lunchtime today was all about lesbian weddings in Ireland.
"Where were all the lesbians when I was growing up?" she asked me. "None of the girls at school were, or in the bank [where she worked before she got married], or on the road where I lived. Where did they all come from?"
"Well, they weren't invented in the last five years, Mother. They've always been around. People just didn't talk about it in those days."
"But I don't understand what God was thinking about. Why did he make them?"
I decided not to tell her that I can't answer that because I tripped and fell into a vat of atheism.
"Maybe he just likes variety."
Labels: conversations, family, religion
posted by Maud @ 9:19 PM
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1 Comments:
My grandmother (who lived in Chicago and therefore should have known better) was prone to saying "where did all these black people come from?" Your mother's confusion at least comes with some plausible deniability.
And my Christian response would have been the same as your atheist one, so I don't think you left anything crucial out of your answer.
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