The most natural thing in the world for a child is to believe in God - that He is there, He is personal and He creates and sustains all things. The heavens and earth declare God's glory and our consciences bear Him witness. You actually have to teach a child not to believe in God. And that's exactly what the world does. Paul writes that we suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Yet in their "child-likeness", kids do say and write some of the funniest things. Often they know just enough to put it together with something totally different and then draw some very funny conclusions. Other times they've heard a word but haven't quite grasped its meaning in context. Other times their inquisitive, unfiltered minds do ask about some pretty direct and profound things. All of this can make for some hilarious reading. Here are some actual statements and writings of children as they try to deal with God, the Bible and life:
Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark.
The Fifth Commandment is humor thy father and mother.
Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day, and a ball of fire at night.
When Mary heard she was to be the mother of Jesus, she went off and sang the Magna Carta.
Salome was a woman who danced naked in fron t of Harrods
Holy acrimony is another name for marriage.
The Pope lives in a vacuum.
Paraffin is next in order after saraphim.
The patron saint of travelers is St. Francis of the sea sick.
Iran is the Bible of Moslems.
A republican is a sinner mentioned in the Bible.
The natives of Macedonia did not believe, so Paul got stoned.
The firs commandment was whn Eve told Adam to eat the apple.
It is sometime difficult to hear what is being said in church because the agnostics are so terrible.
Jesus appeared to two disciples behind locked door as they were walking to Emmaus.
A lie is a sin and an abomination in the sight of God, but a very present help in trouble.
John the Baptist was beheaded with the Axe of the Apostles.
You must love your neighbor even if you hate him.
Jesus stood up in the synagogue at nazareth and read from the Epistle to St. Paul.
Four men came carrying a parable on a bed.
If someone slaps you, turn and let him have another knock and the door shall be opened.
The end of the world will mark a turning point in everyone's life.
All I know about Elijah is that he went for a cruise with a widow.
Q: Write what you know about the Last Supper. A: I was away for that. I had measles.
Thy rod and thy staff come for me.
Q: Who lived in the Garden of Eden? A: The Adamses. Q: Explain the phrase 'the quick and the dead'. A: The quick is the man that got out of the way. Lay not up for yourselves trousers on earth.
Q: What is an unclean spirit? A: A dirty devil.
Jesus cured Peter's mother-in-law, when she was sick of a fever, and Peter swore and went out and wept bitterly.
Q: What is the first and greatest commandment? A: Hang all the law and the prophets.
Once a Sunday School teacher started talking about the story of Jonah and the whale and she asked what the story showed. A boy raised his hand. "I know", he said, "People make whales sick."
Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose but under it were deeply religious feelings.
Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.
The climate is hottest next to the Creator.
The people who followed the Lord were call the 12 opossums.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.
Dear GOD,
In school they told us what You do. Who does it when You are on vacation?
Jane
Dear GOD,
Are you really invisible or is that just a trick?
Lucy
Dear GOD,
Is it true my father won't get in Heaven if he uses his bowling words in the house?
Anita
Dear GOD,
Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
Norma
Dear GOD,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have now?
Jane
Dear GOD,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay?
Neil
Dear GOD,
What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything.
Jane
Dear GOD,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
Joyce
Dear GOD,
Why is Sunday school on Sunday? I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest.
Tom L.
Dear GOD,
Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before, You can look it up.
Bruce
Dear GOD,
If You give me a genie lamp like Aladdin, I will give you anything you want except my money or my chess set.
Raphael
Dear GOD,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
Larry
Dear GOD,
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big but not with so much hair all over.
Sam
Dear GOD,
I think the stapler is one of your greatest inventions.
Ruth M.
Dear GOD,
I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it.
Nan
Dear GOD,
If You watch me in church Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
Mickey D.
Dear GOD,
I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible. Love,
Chris
Dear GOD,
We read Thomas Edison made light. But in school they said You did it. So I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely,
Donna
Dear GOD,
In Sunday School they told us what you do. Who does it when you are on vacation?
Jane
Dear GOD,
How did you know you were God?
Charlene
Dear GOD,
I read the bible. What does begat mean? Nobody will tell me. Love
Alison
Dear GOD,
On halloween I am going to wear a devil's costume. Is that all right with you?
Marnie
Dear GOD,
Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident.
Norma
Dear GOD,
Who draws the lines around the countries?
Nan
Dear GOD,
Do animals use you or is there somebody else for them?
Nancy
Dear GOD,
I like the Lords prayer best of all. Did you have to write it alot or did you get it right the first time? I have to write everything I ever write over again.
Lois
Dear GOD,
It's o.k. that you made different religions but don't you get mixed up some-times.
Arnold
Dear GOD,
In Bible times did they really talk that fancy?
Jennifer
Dear GOD,
I would like to know why all the things you said are in red?
Joanne
Dear GOD,
Is Reverend Coe a friend of yours, or do you just know him through business?
Donny
Dear GOD,
Did you really mean Do Unto Others As They Do Unto You, because if you did then I'm going to fix my brother.
Darla
Dear GOD,
When you made the first man did he work as good as we do now?
Tom
Dear GOD,
My grandpa says you were around when he was a little boy. How far back do you go? Love,
Dennis
Dear GOD
I know all about where babies come from. I think. From inside mommies and daddies put them there. Where are they before
that? Do you have them in heaven? How do they get down here? Do you have to take care of them all first. Please answer all my
questions. I always think of you. Yours truly
Susan
The following is a "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States,from eight grade through college level. They are enough to make you laugh and perhaps cry:
The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.
The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.
The Pramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fougth with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.
Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in "The Illiad", by Homer. Homer also wrote the "Oddity", in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on >> >> his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the coral wreath because the people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought the Parisians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men.
Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harlod mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was cannonized by George Bernard Shaw, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. The poems and verse and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived in Windsor with his of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miquel Cervantes. He wrote "Donkey Hote". The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Then his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."
During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and the was called the Pilgrim's Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by Indians, who came down the hill rolling their war hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porposies on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their pacels through the post without stamps. During the War, Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, "In onion there is strength." Abraham Lincoln write the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also signed the Emasculation Proclamation, and the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-Negroes citizenship. But the Clue Clux Clan would torcher and lynch the ex-Negroes and other innocent victims. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called "Candy". Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees.
Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorrilas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inheret his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear him any children.
The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. He reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. Louis Pastuer discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturailst who wrote the "Organ of the Species". Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.
The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
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