Where’s your god now?
June 11th, 2006
So there’s this idiot in the Ukraine who decided that it would be a good idea to prove to the world that god exists. Of course, the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of proving the existence of a deity is to risk my life and challenge said deity to save me. Of course. That is all fine and dandy if the deity in question actually exists and/or cares whether you live or die. Our faithful Ukrainian decided that his god does exist and does care so he jumped into the lion enclosure at the Kiev Zoo, took off his shoes (wouldn’t want to offend the lions by wearing shoes in their home, I guess) and walked up to the lions. A lioness, definitely not the first in the animal kingdom, proclaimed “Where’s your god now?” by pouncing on the man and ripping out his throat. Read the story at The St. Petersburg Times.
Is this really all that tragic? My wife thinks so but I have to disagree. If I decided I had superpowers and jumped in front of a moving bus to prove it, no one would call that tragic – just stupid. That is one of my biggest beefs with religion. It allows people to completely divorce themselves from their actions. People all over the world are doing stupid or downright evil things but because they are religious people or following religious causes they are not called stupid or evil. They get special terms. “Fanatic”, “Martyr”, “Faithful”. Stupid and evil sound a lot better to me.
Scoring update:
| Religion: | 0 |
| Natural Selection: | 1 |
| Common Sense: | surrenders. |
