And of course, I had some fun with them... An older, brunette woman who obviously dyes her hair and could stand to lose a bit of weight, and a slim blonde teenage girl - probably around 15 - 17...
I started out by asking them if they knew how old the Bible was....
(And unfortunately, I think I demonstrated that I wouldn't make a very good "undercover" bible study prospect... )
But they didn't even know how old - young - the bible was!!
I asked them whether they believed that the OLDEST god should be the "true" god... They hemmed and hawed, but wouldn't aswer me.
(Actually, the older woman hemmed and hawed - I think I actually got thru to the young blonde!!)
So I pointed out to them that the bible is only a few thousand years old, and that the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and the cave paintings of France are ALL older than the bible...
Then I asked them where the bible was written... The brunette said she couldn't exactly say WHERE the bible was written, whereupon I said, "Geographical location - generally"...
The brunette responded, "Middle East", and I stated two things - that she was worshipping a Middle-Eastern god, and that the bible was written by Middle Eastern men with basically the same mentality as the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Taliban, the Al-Quaida, Osama bin Laden, and so on...
So she protested, and I told her to look at Leviticus and Exodus [of course she said she'd read the bible!] and see how many death sentences were mentioned for those who broke the law.
Then - of course - she attempted to bring up the New Testament, and I headed her off with the fact that Dionysis was worshipped by the Greeks, at least 400 years before "Jesus was a gleam in a fanatic's eye"... And that Dionysis was to die so that others might live, that his wine was considered to be his blood, offered as a sacrament.
Then I moved on to the Sumerian Goddess Inanna, and mentioned, "So, Jesus was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights? Well, guess what? About a thousand years BEFORE the bible, the SUMERIAN goddess Inanna was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights, and then was resurrected!"
Then I attempted to direct them to Moses and the bronze serpent, but by this time the brunette was attempting to beat a hasty retreat down my front steps.
The blonde, however.... Remained... And seemed to be actually listening, when I told her to look up "the Rod of Asclepius", which is a heathen Greek magician who ALSO had a magical snake on a bronze rod...
Finally, the brunette urged her to get off of my porch, as I called after them, "You need to do some REAL research!! Read history, something based on scientific FACTS!!!"
(Yeah, I'm afraid that I did most of the talking...)
But... I was that blonde, at 11 years old, when someone said to me at the door, "Those people are using you..."
Maybe I succeeded in planting a seed...
If they EVER come back to my door, perhaps I can contain my mischevious glee long enough to actually "ACT" like a sheep-like, interested one...
I'm jes' too much of a She-Devil to sit still for another bible study...
