A Tot Of Our Father

I have no real idea when I reclaimed my atheism. It was young, maybe 6 or 7. I started noticing some things the grown ups were saying, didn't make sense. I felt silly doing prayers and hymns and pretending like everybody else was.
After a conversation about our respective childhood religious indoctrinations with @CMS11163 I started remembering something that, over half a dozen childhood years, had become a kind of mantra of a tot's defiance - an array of unasked queries about the Lord’s Prayer. A mantra which occupied my head whilst I was forced to speak the expected nonsense to everyone’s favourite invisible friend on the weekly let’s pretend day for ‘grown ups’.
It didn’t seem unusual that the grown ups had a ‘dressing up and pretending day’, we had them in nursery and primary school all the time. They had been fun but, by the age of 8, I thought myself much too grown up for such silly games. I didn’t begrudge those who were still wanting to pretend, it was kind of fun but I just didn’t want any part of that ‘This is just being silly’ feeling that I got every time I prayed.

The Lord’s Prayer

( My Lord’s Prayer Thoughts )

Our Father, which art in heaven,

( He's not my Dad! Dad's my Dad! How do they know he does drawings in heaven? Wherever that is! )

hallowed be thy name;

( Rubbish name hallowed! )

thy kingdom come;

( Why do they say we go to heaven then? )

thy will be done,

( Who will do him? He’s not very great if someone can do him! )

on earth as it is in heaven.

( It’s the same in heaven as here! That’s pants! )

Give us this day our daily bread.

( Don’t like bread, hate crusts! )

And forgive us our trespasses,

( Eh? Is trespass an old word for wee’d your trousers? )

as we forgive them that trespass against us.

( I wouldn’t forgive someone who wee’d on my trousers? )

And lead us not into temptation;

( Why would he do that? That would be a dirty trick! )

but deliver us from evil.

( When did Satan post us and why were we in hell? )

For thine is the kingdom,

( I thought it was called heaven! Where’s 'Thine' now? )

the power, and the glory,

( What? What’s that about? )

for ever and ever.

( Eh? Isn’t ‘for ever’ & ‘ever’ the same? Is the second one really needed? )

Amen.

( Ahh Men? A man? An men? Eh? What about Awomen? ) 

I guess that's where the Too Many Questions started!

This is one of the Too Many Questions

PEACE   
Crispy

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