This is why we can't have nice things, religion.

I was listening to NPR on the way home from the farmers market, and they kept running a promo on an upcoming story: a clip of a kindly sounding southern woman explaining how she had faith that they'd get through the lack of jobs/money after the Gulf oil spill. She used the quote "God feeds the birds".

It made me smile every time. A simple statement showing so much faith. (Misplaced and illogical yeah, but still faith.) Then the whole story played and I heard the entire quote. "God feeds the birds, and we are far more valuable to him than they are."

UGH UGH UGH. And so once more religion has shown its true colors. The self-centered-ness of it! Why couldn't the first half of the quote be enough for her? Then I came home and googled, and found that that's actually what it says in the Bible.

I'm just so UGH now. I hate it, hate it hate it hate it, when I find something about religion I can like and then inevitably it does a 180.

Heck, looking at the whole quote from the Bible, what does this even imply?

MATTHEW 6:26 LB
26 Look at the birds! They don't worry about what to eat-- they
don't need to sow or reap or store up food -- for your heavenly
Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than
they are.

Is that saying that if you believe in god you shouldn't have to work for your food? (Not to mention it's wrong. Some birds do store food!)

Heh. Analyzing Bible quotes, a first for Thistle LJ!

Edit: Now that I think about it, isn't there something in the Bible that says you're supposed to be humble? Isn't saying "God loves me more than X, teehee~!" just the opposite of humble? Bah!

This is why we can't have nice things, religion.

I was listening to NPR on the way home from the farmers market, and they kept running a promo on an upcoming story: a clip of a kindly sounding southern woman explaining how she had faith that they'd get through the lack of jobs/money after the Gulf oil spill. She used the quote "God feeds the birds".

It made me smile every time. A simple statement showing so much faith. (Misplaced and illogical yeah, but still faith.) Then the whole story played and I heard the entire quote. "God feeds the birds, and we are far more valuable to him than they are."

UGH UGH UGH. And so once more religion has shown its true colors. The self-centered-ness of it! Why couldn't the first half of the quote be enough for her? Then I came home and googled, and found that that's actually what it says in the Bible.

I'm just so UGH now. I hate it, hate it hate it hate it, when I find something about religion I can like and then inevitably it does a 180.

Heck, looking at the whole quote from the Bible, what does this even imply?

MATTHEW 6:26 LB
26 Look at the birds! They don't worry about what to eat-- they
don't need to sow or reap or store up food -- for your heavenly
Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than
they are.

Is that saying that if you believe in god you shouldn't have to work for your food? (Not to mention it's wrong. Some birds do store food!)

Heh. Analyzing Bible quotes, a first for Thistle LJ!

Edit: Now that I think about it, isn't there something in the Bible that says you're supposed to be humble? Isn't saying "God loves me more than X, teehee~!" just the opposite of humble? Bah!