There’s some video floating around the internets of the “farting preacher” guy “speaking in tongues” — it’s a laugh riot. One fun thing to tell christians who believe in that that it’s a biblical translation error; the original Aramaic said “speaking like goats” and the Greeks mistranslated it. That usually makes them stare at you slack-jawed for a second, then you can polish it up by saying, “nah, I was kidding, but it’s not any more stupid than the speaking in tongues stuff. I mean if that actually worked you’d ‘hear’ comprehensible English, right?”
I wish I could speak Enochian.
thebookofdavesays
Infants do it all the time. We spend years breaking them of the habit, but we were born to speak in tongues. It’s never too late to relearn babytalk.
busterggisays
Well I do remember from my younger days that where’s there’s foo there’s fire but the rest is gibberish to me.
Lady Mondegreen (aka Stacy) says
Didna foo’ Mo.
chigau (違う) says
hewohitteshiritsubome
Marcus Ranum says
There’s some video floating around the internets of the “farting preacher” guy “speaking in tongues” — it’s a laugh riot. One fun thing to tell christians who believe in that that it’s a biblical translation error; the original Aramaic said “speaking like goats” and the Greeks mistranslated it. That usually makes them stare at you slack-jawed for a second, then you can polish it up by saying, “nah, I was kidding, but it’s not any more stupid than the speaking in tongues stuff. I mean if that actually worked you’d ‘hear’ comprehensible English, right?”
I wish I could speak Enochian.
thebookofdave says
Infants do it all the time. We spend years breaking them of the habit, but we were born to speak in tongues. It’s never too late to relearn babytalk.
busterggi says
Well I do remember from my younger days that where’s there’s foo there’s fire but the rest is gibberish to me.