A lack of accuracy in religious spam

[The Other Michael]

I was googling about bumble bee stingers (no barb so they don't pull out) and saw a link to this bit of drivel.

The Bumble Bee (http://www.inhis.com/Womens/devotions/devotion.asp?id=63)

If I'd written that I'd have gone for a wasp instead of a bumble bee as they are far more menacing. I'd guess most people find bumble bees moderately unintimidating. Of course, wasps have a smooth stinger too, so that wouldn't work, and they'd have to fall back to the poor honey bee.

cheers,
Michael

[Dean Anderson]

It wouldn't work with a wasp either - it would have to be a honey bee.

Wasps (like bumble bees) can sting repeatedly, unlike honey bees that can only sting once - sacrificing themselves - because when they try to fly away the stinger is left behind along with a good portion of their guts.

So they don't mention that after the father had enraged the bee by trapping it in his fist, it then stings his daughter five seconds later and she dies.

Of course, the inspirational nature of the story would be kind of destroyed even if bumble bees could only sting once, by the fact that the cruel father caught the poor innofensive bee and killed it (by forcing it to sting him so that it could escape) rather than just helping it out of the car window...

The bee was the victim here - so I guess by analogy Satan is the victim too.

[Dean Anderson]

Damn!

You edited your post so now my correction is not correcting anything and I just look like I'm being pedantic and repeating what you've already said...

No Fair!

[The Other Michael]

Yep, I realized I'd left that out and probably was doing the edit as you were typing yours (my edit was 4 minutes prior to your post), as there'd been no replies at the time I pulled up the edit screen.

That should get you off the hook, or barbed stinger as the case may be.

Since the car was stopped with all the windows down, why didn't the father just shoo the poor bee out of a window? It sounds like deliberate cruelty (with perhaps a bit of masochism thrown in) to me.

cheers,
Michael

[Jobar]

It sounds like deliberate cruelty (with perhaps a bit of masochism thrown in) to me.

Yes, Christianity seems that way to me, too.

Oh, you meant the story.

;)

[joedad]

Are you trying to be cute with that thread title, Michael? Inaccurate spam pretty much sums up the religious experience.

[Queen of Swords]

If Satan can only buzz, why is it that Christians are so concerned about him and his demons? They should be a bit more blase about these weak, stingless creatures.

[Howard]

Y’know, this whole Jesus thing is really getting tiresome. I mean, it’s been 2,000 years. You’d think people would have moved on by now.

[jafosei]

My favorite line:
He reduced Satan to a stingerless bumble bee that's lost its stinger.

It's stingerless and has lost it's stinger? That's unneccessarily redundantly repeating itself unnecessarily, methinks. But I probably shouldn't make fun.

[The Other Michael]

You'd think the Department of Redundancy Department factoid checkers would have caught that one.

But since the source material for the whole belief system seems to have escaped any editing it isn't surprising that things based on it would also be defective.

cheers,
Michael