God being an Iron and all

[kiya]

So I have a great-aunt. She's the sort of matriarch of the family who would keep tabs on everyone and send them all little wreaths of shells and wildflowers if they were all within convenient reach of her. Given that this is an age of travel, though, she can't do that. But then . . . she discovered AOL.

So today, I received from her a bit of Christian net-kipple. This particular thing suggested that to be Christian is to be like a pumpkin. For one is brought in from the patch, has the dirt washed off and all the icky stuff removed, and a smiley face marked on one and a light set inside so all can see.

My irony meter has blown a gasket.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

The pumpkin is really rather an odd analogy, indeed. Although I suppose it is almost seasonal, though....

I think that analogies of that sort have more to do with the wreaths of shells and flowers than they do with actually explaining things, though. It's more of a "Oh, look at this pretty analogy! Isn't it so precious?" sort of thing -- an exercise in decorative prose.

Which makes having it be appropriately pre-seasonal even more appropriate, really.

<whimsical>Of course, it may simply be an illustration of the fractal nature of the universe -- everything in the world is, in some way, an analogy for God's relationship with the world. So one has self-similarity, and following it around the loop indefinitely leads to a fractal-nature. The story itself is a metaphor for how God deals with the world ("Everything, even ostensibly non-Christian symbols, can be tied in to the relationship somehow."), and the explanation of how it's a metaphor is itself a metaphor, and so on.</whimsical>

- Brooks

Another loglet. . . .

[kiya]

Tesla peers at Brooks' comment on your pumpkin post. That man is way too geeky.
I say "Isn't it cute?"
Tesla says "It really is."
Whitney beams.
Whitney debates quoting this exchange and posting it in a reply comment. ;)
Tesla says "Oh dear. ;)"
I say "What do you think?"
Tesla says "What the hell."
Whitney grins, and therefore does so.