Smells Like Christian Spirit!
In November, public school teacher in North Carolina taught her students about a special kind of smell apparently only the Christians have, writes Kristin Collins in the Raleigh News & Observer:
"God's word tells us about a kind of odor only Christians have ...," the lesson read. "Christians carry forth the fragrance of Christ wherever they go by the way they live; that is, they remind people of Him."Could someone find Christ by the scent trail you are leaving behind you?"
(No, but we'd know you anywhere by that cheap cologne.)
A suit was filed and the school system administrators pledged it wouldn't happen again. Naturally, it did. It took only until February:
Ashlee came home with a worksheet on which she was marked wrong for answering that "chance" was the reason many animals are colored to match their surroundings. The teacher indicated that the right answer was "God's master design," the suit says.
Or maybe a giant purple dinosaur popped down with an extra big box of Crayolas!
...Do I see any hands for natural selection?
Christian fragrance! Of course! Christian pheremones next? This could explain some very unsettling pairings.
This reminds me of a time when I pulled my Filipino friend along with me to the Mormon Temple up on Santa Monica, sometime around 1979. You see, I had read that it was accepted Mormon thought that if brown-skinned people were to embrace Mormonism, their skin would gradually lighten, until it was "white and delightsome" as God originally intended! Or at least the Angel Moroni! The article that I had read implied that Filipino maids living with Mormons had indeed become, well... white. And delightsome!
Unfortunately, despite my best intentions, our jaunt to the temple did nothing to help my poor friend's dark predicament. We even followed those processions of Druid looking Mormons who were about to consecrate, or perhaps consummate, the joining of pre-holy-underwear bearing newlyweds!
A few years later I read, wouldn't you know... that the word had come down from God that the phrase "white and delightsome" was now to be written as "pure and delightsome" in any references to the bestowment of the blessed bleach. I mailed the article to my still-brown friend promptly, lest he forever think that my original quest was a complete failure.
It's all true... see the following link:
http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/pure-white.html
White and Unpure Doug
Doug at March 22, 2005 8:28 AM
Hi –
When reading the article you linked to, one can find, regarding the teacher involved:
" … Kristie Griffiths, the teacher, is a visiting faculty member from Australia and did not understand U.S. standards. She bought the text from Christian publisher A Beka Book with her own money …
Now, is this Griffiths person representative of what's happening in Australia, or has she simply been exported, like bale of wool, to the US of A ?
L'Amerloque
L'Amerloque at March 22, 2005 8:34 AM
That sounds like a question for the Reverend Desmond Ford.
...or his Jewish son.
LYT at March 22, 2005 11:37 AM
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