I've had a FB account since it started and set up a page with some pics and history at the beginning then became more aware of how they capture and abuse our personal info for profit so for years have rarely gone on there to the chagrin of family and friends. Lately I've been checking in more to keep in touch with old friends before none of us are left.
My mom's side of the family live down in Cardston, AB and are frequent flyers at the huge Mormon temple there and very conservative. One cousin at least is an elder in the church and they are all devote practitioners of that strain of religious fantasy.
Another cousin is a frequent poster of inane memes and recently posted one showing two maps of the US with coloured dots showing cities across the country that experienced higher than 100F in 1936 and 2023. Of course the '36 one had 3X the dots as the '23 one. Neither mention duration of those high temps so otherwise skewed to make it look like '36 was way worse and climate change was false.
I left a comment last night that said, ' So does this mean you deny the existence of of the climate disaster befalling our planet? That's only fair I guess as I deny the existence of an invisible spirit in the sky that will condemn me to eternal fire for denying it's existence.
Thinking myself a pretty smart cookie I had a toke and a good chuckle over that then started to think about the unintended consequences of such a statement. More like tossing a bucket of gas on a smouldering fire than a hearty laugh for all and my dear old, 96, mom would likely catch a lot of negative feedback. As I am basically a rookie on FB it took me a while to track that down and delete it but I managed. As it was 2am when I posted it I'm hoping all were safely tucked away in their beds dreaming of golden pages and not getting outraged on FuckBook. lol
This all started when my mom's parents came to Canada from Switzerland about 1925 and joined the Mormon church as it was the only church available and the only way to get to know the locals as they began a new life living in a soddy on two full sections of wide open prairie gifted to them by our gov't for farming.
Mom moved away to Vancouver at about 19 years old where she eventually met and married my dad who was raised Presbyterian. Those f'ers used to show up at our door in Richmond imploring her to return to the iron grip of the LDS church. They'd be told to get off the lawn and have the door slammed in their face then stand out there singing hymns like Xmas Carols. Finally mom enticed her little devil of a son to toss a bucket of ice water over them from their upper bedroom window while they held them in the target zone by politely chatting with them at the door. Worked a treat and they finally stopped harassing her.
They took us to the local Presbyterian church and Sunday school until I was about 6 or 7 then we stopped going at all. They told us that they thought it was best that we decide for ourselves when we grew up if we wanted religion in our lives. Neither myself or my two younger sisters ever became involved with organized religion tho I sent in $5 to the Universal Life Church and became ordained on my B-day in 1978 then was re-ordained Jan 2020 to get the cool ministerial package with Press credentials, official ID card, bumper sticker and shiny new Credentials of Ministry hanging in a frame on my wall. Still in Canada we are not allowed to do marriages, baptisms or other clergy functions which kind of sucks as I wanted to make a little coin doing off the grid marriages etc. Here in Alberta anyone can get a permit to officiate a marriage but is not allowed to charge for it.
As for myself I was adopted and never baptized so I guess it's straight to hell for me when I step off this mortal coil. All the cool people will be there too so should be a great eternity!
Added bonus is I'm a ginger and we are born without souls! Bwahahahahaha!
