This wtf fits in to the current offrail:
I've got a friend for a few years now. He always seemed to objectively despise religion for reasons best known to himself. So we always avoided religious discussions, ok.
Today he reveals to me that he has been confirmed. wat.
Confirmed for what? HIV positive? Scholarship? Inherited millions from a long lost relative?
Presumably into a Christian faith.
Oh.
Was needling at the ambiguity.
Sorry, yeah, 'confirmation' is supposedly a coming of age thing. It's supposed to have high standards for entry, though nvm its a long story
No it doesn't.
Speaking as someone who's been there and done that.
It was just this class where I basically sat there, nodded along, and ate food. And at the end there was a ceremony.
Waitwaitwait. It doesn't? We were told that if we didn't go to x amount of classes, do x amount of hours of charity work in four different places (family, comunity, church, and something else), memorize 10+ bible verses, we wouldn't be able to be confirmed. We didn't even get food, you lucky bastard.
Edit: Ooh wait. Just remembered a piece of gold that came up in youth group that proves we need to educate people about religions that aren't their own:
Budda, yeah. That's the one the Jews worship, right? The one where an apple dropped on his head.
God I about died when the kid said this.
lol
The apple dropping on his head part comes from a myth where an apple fell on Issac Newtons head and that inspired/insighted him to his laws of physics. So, how that one ended up getting mixed up with Bhudda and the Jews, I have absolutely no idea.
There was one thing or another where Bhudda sat under a tree, but I don't think any sort of fruit ever fell on his head.
No, where he sat under a tree he was tempted by a sort of devil or somesuch with a number of virgins. Who if I'm remembering properly were the devil's daughters.