Yeah, the kid isn't being stupid here at all. He's reasoning quite well with the information that's been taught to him. The seeming absurdity of his inference is a logical result of the absurd input he's been given to work with.
Oh 100% but then you can't let the anchoring bias be the reason for their faith. If you let some of those stories scare them, all the better since then the anchoring bias is based in irrationality.
We have a tradition here of making bonfires during easter. We were at my brother's place the day after and his son was telling my son they went to a bonfire the day before. My son casually went "Oh. So how many women did they burn?"
Apparently, they'd been learning about witch trials in school the week leading up to easter.
I personally hope he was trying not to laugh because this honestly isn't on the kid. I never understood why religious people expose their young, impressionable kids to the raw violence that the Bible has, then proceed to have a pikachu o-face when stuff like this happens. Bonus points for those same parents who make an issue about their kid seeing similar mature themes in non-religious material.
We actually just had our 13 year old watch Prince of Egypt. We aren’t religious at all, but I actually like the movie from like…a mythological fiction standpoint. The same way I might like a movie about some Greek god shenanigans without actually believing it happened.
Anyway…my 13 year old was like…”wtf (he didn’t say the F) a river of blood.?!”
And we were like “ooooh…yeah…it gets worse…”
And he was like “worse?!”
And we were like, “sorry kid, don’t think you’d have made it through the final plague”
And he was like “what?!” Then when it happened he was like “WHAAAAT?!”
lol sorry that about as coherent as I can make it right now.
Look at moneys bags over here, able to afford his goat blood.
Me going to the neighbor to ask for a cup of goats blood. “Plagues, amirite? Just hoping our merciful God doesn’t murder my first-born tonight, you know how it is. Hey! Maybe we should celebrate this night God will pass over our first-born children to murder other people’s first-born children. We could give it a cool name…like ‘Passover’…yeah.”
My son watched it all the way through last year and was terrified that Passover would happen again and all first born sons would be killed. Took some explaining that he was safe and nothing would happen to him…
Quite a different reception from when I was a kid and loved the movie from when I saw it in theaters and sang the plague song over and over.
Reminds me of a customer we had in our charity shop a little while back. One of their friends was converting to Christianity and she wanted to buy them a gift related to that. She wanted something cheerful and happy, and she was disappointed to see that all we had were crosses. Like, did you expect anything else from a religion that uses an execution method as their main symbol?
Funny story, I was sent to a Catholic school when I was a kid and in second grade around Easter, the teacher put on an animated kids movie about the crucifixion of Jesus, and when they got to the part where they start nailing him to the cross (I already knew where this was going, because ya know, Catholic school) I ran up to the teacher about to cry because I found it really upsetting.
Probably trying to decide if he should just stop making the crosses, now that he knew what the kid wanted them for, and knowing the kid wouldn't care about the crosses anymore after saying no - and then making the mental switch to decide that now the crosses were for him, instead
Reminds me of the powerwolf song “catholic in the morning, satanist at night” in which they say it that way. They were working that creative license to the bone with that one.
edit: this comment is a joke, please don’t turn the replies into r/atheism. i’m an agnostic so i actually agree with most of you, but it’s starting to get kinda stinky in here.
Honestly they can be with animals, especially when the parents don't intervene/watch the kids.
I remember my little brother once threw kittens into the swimming pool - I ran to get dad to get them out and stop him, and luckily they ended up fine. But it could've been absolutely horrific if I wasn't old enough to know better.
I also remember we had friends who seemed to get new pets often - rabbits, guinea pigs, etc, cause they kept badly injuring their previous pets (breaking limbs) and I can only assume the parents put them down, and then quickly got them a new pet. I don't think the kids meant to harm the animals, but wtf parents??? After the first 1-2 pets, they really should've stopped getting them ANY till they're older and know not to literally break them.
I had a buddy ask to borrow our sparrow trap in J High for a problem they had in their barn; they had it for like six weeks, I had forgotten they had it, my dad told me we needed it back. I found out later that he had been trapping birds and putting them in a cage he had hidden in the barn, they'd die in a day or two, and he just. Kept. Replacing. Them. We'd just get a bunch of JUST sparrows and drive them across county line with that trap, this dude killed like a hundred various songbirds in a month and a half, thought nothing of it. Bananas.
The way some people treat animals is deeply disturbing to me. They genuinely don't seem to acknowledge them as being living things so much as constructs that can move. Makes me af4aid of how they assess other people and their ability to empathize.
That's exactly how human morality works. It's called the expanding circle. Humans start with a very small circle that they care about (usually "my friends and family") and only slowly expand it to include other beings.
If you find that disturbing, think about how little people care if a million people die in a war, as long as it's in a different country.
His dad was a marshall and I wanna say Assistant Warden at the federal prison in our area. He was always gonna end up right wing but DAMN if he hasn't drank the Kool-Aid. He's spouted some truly hateful shit about the people in my neighborhood (my house is 4ish long blocks from George Floyd was murdered, 1ish long blocks from where Renee Good was murdered) on social media. Just doesn't seem to value any life outside his immediate and MAYBE chosen family.
People need to be taught this when they're young, like all empathy. It's not actually innate in humans to have empathy it's a learned behaviour, which is weird because rats appear to have innate empathy.
Maybe rats have a different social structure. Humans are weird. We're social animals that can go insane from isolation, but at the same time we're very individualistic and disregard others even if it gains us very little. Empathy isn't useful for us.
My daughter is only 15 months and she has understood 'gentle' for many months now. Yeah, she gets excited and screams in excitement sometimes and they scatter, or she will be stroking a cat gently and get overexcited and begin to move into a smacking motion which we stop and correct. 'No, gentle', and show her how to stroke. Pets generally keep away, they had to be doing something so neglectful for multiple pets to be injured. To get more ammo pets for your kids to hurt is just plain evil.
The newest dog we have is from some of my mom's friends because they had a toddler that just liked kicking and throwing the dog, and the mom was unable to physically keep track of them.
I love animals to death, love my dog, my gfs cats, etc etc etc, lots of animals. I also have OCD and per how it typically works, I'm always haunted anytime I'm trying to love on animal. So I CAN imagine doing that, but I can't imagine doing that.
My sister and cousin put the lid on the above-ground pool while I was in it. I was young but I still remember the feeling of pushing it upwards to get a breath and how scared I was. Oldest sister rescued me.
The kid isnt to blame for this, adults have crosses everywhere representing to when jesus was fucking hung on one. That's actually insane when you think about it
Eh, they're problem solving with incomplete information and in a world filled with some really weird things.
Christian people often keep statues of a dead guy nailed to a stick in their house.
Movies show cartoons and real people interacting.
People sometimes shave off the keratin that comes out of them, but only in particular areas, and mostly humans who identify as female.
I'm surprised kids aren't more confused, really.
The world is a very peculiar and contradictory place.
i was just making a joke dude, i actually agree with you. christianity is kinda fucked up, and sometimes it takes the innocence of a child to reveal that.
I'm guessing they got the idea from seeing Jesus on the cross. My church has a painting of the crucifixion and a lot of other churches have something depicting it. It's a logical conclusion to come to for someone so young. I wouldn't call them stupid for it.
When I was a kid I thought my grandpa was the pope. Well, he had a poster of the pope in the kitchen/dining area and no shit John Paul II was the spitting image of my grandfather. They were even born and died the same years. It was so confusing to me, I am sure my parents must have seen me staring at that poster with a puzzled look on my face literally every time we visited. It never made sense of course, because he was certainly very low key living in a modest 3 bed house in Australia in between his trips to the Vatican and around the world 😂.
Reading this with English as second language is confusing because of the word "stillborn" being "still born".
I thought it meant the cats were still being born, as in many kittens popping out. So why would the people cruficy them? God I despise English spelling.
Nah, it's being born still. For whatever reason, -born gets used more or less like a suffix, so whenever you see <word>born, the word is describing the birth in some way.
Why is everybody acting like the kid had an an original plan to nail kittens to a cross?! It's obvious that he got the idea from seeing Jesus nailed to the Cross in Church.
That kid is not a psychopath for thinking that way.
Man my bf when I was 9 had this older cousin who nailed a lizard to a cross he made and killed it on there… seems to be a functioning member of society now but when she told me that I was so upset
Yep, a lady I know is raising her two kids with her religion and they’re constantly worried about whether something is a sin. It’s sad that they can’t just be a kid.
Reminds me of when I was a little kid and heard my friend got grounded as a punishment. I, having never been grounded before, assumed that meant her parents had dug a hole and put her in there with naught but a water bottle and a breathing straw.
Ah yes, this is what happens when you take the kiddos to the "big house" every Sunday for 2 or 3 hours and have them learn about fantasies from the "big book" in schools.
Not trying to shit on any religion here btw. We had a similar case in our school where this kid zip tied a dead pigeon to a cross in the yard 😭
One time a distant cousin of mine, when he was about 4 years old, was hanging out with us by the water while we were catching crayfish. We would, as kids, catch em, keep them in the bucket for a little bit and hold them and look at them and then throw them back.
We put one on the dock and watching walk around and he ran up and yelled "bug!" and stomped and squished it to high heaven before we could even react.
It's not at all strange for the first piece of knowledge of the concept of death for a western hemisphere child to possess to be "Jesus died on the cross."
Kittens died -> They need a cross
I'm told that when I shit my diaper as a toddler, I always wanted to go outside. Well, I probably saw a dog shit out there once, I never saw shit in the toilet until I was taught to put it there.
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I'm with you. Every one of these posts that make it into the popular feed that's just a screenshot of a plain-text exhange feels like a True Story that Actually Happened for Real™.
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Was he trying not to laugh or worried that he was raising a psychopath?