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As it turns out life is complicated and messy and gritty and dirty. Call it simple or easy if you want, but you're lying to yourself to feel better. It's hard growing up in today's world, it's hard having friends who betray you or families that are hard to like. We all need those everlasting friends and those moments of clarity where we see our lives flash before us, and those times to be completely carefree. As we crash through the jungle of this life, we all steal a few hearts and break a few bones. But hey. That's life right?

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The Greek gods vs. the evil Christians (??!!!)

So for AP English class, we have to write a research paper on the gods and goddesses of Greek Mythology. This Friday we had to watch a 30 minute video from the History channel on the Greek gods, and oh...my....gosh. It was the weirdest, strangest, most offending video I've ever seen. First the narrarator went on and on about all of the gods' love affairs, and how, even though he was married to the goddess of the family and marriage, Zeus (Zoos) went out and had sex with every mortal girl he met. And then there was Ares and a whole bunch of other ones, and then...then they went on about how Aphrodite (A-fro-die-tee) was the love goddess and she became the goddess of prostitution, and she wasn't really born, but instead sprang from the bleeding testicles of some god, and it was like, "What...the heck." It was really, really weird. And then we heard about Aesculapius (Es-Klee-Pee-Us), god of healing, who had this temple and people came from all over to be healed there, and scientists found this tablet of people who had been healed miraculously of all kinds of stuff, such as the woman who'd been pregnant for FIVE YEARS and then gave birth to a five year-old boy at the temple of Aesculapius. Ummm...y'know, that's just not physically possible. At all. Whatsoever. And then the narrarator started telling about how the evil Christians came and built churches over the Greek temple, and dedicated them to healing saints, but it was basically the same thing. The SAME THING?! THE SAME THING?! They sacrificed pigs to Aesculapius, who do they think they're kidding?! This one guy was like, "Yeah, I don't think there's that much difference between the gods the Greeks worshipped and the God of Christianity." And I was like, "Excuse me?!" Not that much difference? Okay, the gods of Greek mythology went around having sex with everybody, I'd say that's a pretty big difference, not to mention that they also fought wars and killed each other, and they sacrificed pigs, bulls, and people to the Greek gods. In Old Testament times the Hebrews did sacrifice bulls and stuff, but since that practice is no longer a practice the Christians, but one of the Jews, then that's irrelevant. Anyway, it was really weird and really crude and gross, and I was seriously offended because it was supposed to be about Greek mythology, but they kept talking about "Is it really true? Were these myths based on realy events?", and they kept picking on Christians throughout the whole thing. If they wanna have a weird gross movie about Greek mythology then whatever, but then what the heck does Christianity have to do with it?! 'Nuf ranting for now.
Your so-angry/offended-she's-boiling-over-blogger,

Katy

1 comment:

Katy said...

Uuuuuhhh...me no know.