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gods

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kenny constantly asks me to draw things for him. Tonight was no exception. Looking at the piece of paper that he was offering me, I saw a place where some scribbled lines already suggested a shape. That of the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", a faux God created by some people in the US (if I recall correctly) during the debate a few years (again!) about teaching creationism as an alternative to evolution theory. I fleshed out the drawing, and tried to explain to Kenny what the concept of a god was. I then drew a bunch of other gods for him, showing him Jesus on the cross, Allah riding up to heaven on what I think a griffin is supposed to look like, and Buddha sitting in a badly-rendered lotus position. Then I threw in Anansi, Odin & Thor, Nanabush, Raven. (Hmm. No females in there, and only two gender-neutral characters. I guess that's humans for you.)

He liked FSM best. That could be the result of bias. Maybe.