04.15.07
Irony, circumstances, and a couple of atheists at church
So, today I received a voice mail from my buddy Nathan saying “What’s up dude? Where you at? I know you’re not at church…”
This is, of course, ironic, because I actually was at church. :-)
I know it doesn’t come across in a blogarific setting, but I find this confluence of events hi-lar-ious. Really.
I was at church because a friend had wanted a mutual friend to go see him play his drums at the jesus-freak-love fest that precedes his church’s services, and that friend (an atheist like me) needed moral support to enter into a church and deal with the music and the people.
We actually came away pretty clean…I got my hand shaken once by someone who I presume* was the pastor, because he was wearing a wireless mike, and Christa got roped into accepting a little pamphlet full of ways to give the church proprieters money (Christian Money Management Seminar! Only $20!), but other than that we got away with minimal scarring. Of course, we left before the talking started, after the music was done.
On the plus side, the drummer friend is really, really good at drums. I’m very much looking forward to watching him play in a less nausea inducing setting. :-)
*I actually thought originally that this usage might be incorrect, but the princeton dictionary that google prefers shows this is a reasonable usage.
