I can picture it painted on a kid's face now: a cross, and below it these words in quotation marks, "Hey Judas, I can see your house from up here!"

Years ago, to appease then wife, we took our daughter to a Holloween church thing. One of the crafts was to make a bracelet with different colored beads representing certain characteristics. The idea was to use at least one black bead to represent sin, since were all sinners.

I asked if I could make one with all black beads. I don't think the woman saw the humor in that like I did. ?

For the longest time my son thought a Cross was a T. I was so proud of him. But then society hit him with religious crap

To busy raping kids, too busy telling them to hate thy neighbor, telling them to give them all their money.

maybe it was her first time at a church.

at the age of 10 i had never been to one.

now i am wondering, what WAS my first visit? probably to a friend's wedding. we were all 21 or so. he was catholic. the priest wore tennis shoes under his robes. i was impressed by that, but not by anything else, although i was happy for my friend, as he seemed truly in love, and so did his bride, who was also my friend. he and i lost touch for a few decades and then we found each other on facebook a few years ago. (i could not find his wife's name on his friend's list.) he found out i was pro-choice, though, and said he couldn't be my friend anymore, and dropped me. he is no longer a catholic. he has become a born-again christian. i was ready to overlook that and still be his friend for old times' sake. i think he's a smart and kind person. however, even if he thinks i am a smart and kind person, our friendship became impossible for him, not because i HAD an abortion (which i never did, since i've never been pregnant) or because i WOULD have an abortion (i have no idea, since i've never been pregnant) but simply because i believe in letting other women make choices for themselves. to me that is very weird. i am still sad about his dropping me, but i've already veered way off course here. even just trying to remember the first time i set foot inside a church was a digression; now i have digressed from my digression.

anyway, if she was in a church for the first time at age 10, she has had the experience half a lifetime sooner than i did! maybe she isn't christian. i never have been. it's not impossible.

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so she came a cross as naive? wink!

Did you paint it on her upside down?

Just a thought: the supposed cross wasn't sword shaped -- that may have come from knights praying. Think about digging a hole in the hard rock or sand to support the cross typically imaged. Now image an X shape with a support piece propping the X up. Much simpler, just as effective -- no digging.

There's an old joke about a kid who was bad at maths being sent to a Catholic school. He immediately improved. When asked why he was doing so well, he whispered "I don't want them nailing me to a plus sign, like that other guy" smile009.gif

Are you talking about that lowercase T thing?

Ida given her a telephone pole just to be a smartass lol.

Lucky you didn't paint a pentagram on her face using her description.