The Boy Jesus And The Rainbow

[naomi24]

I thought I’d heard most things but this is a new one on me. A friend, an Italian Roman Catholic, tells me that when Jesus was a child playing with his little friends, he slid down a rainbow – and he was the only one who could do it. An otherwise intelligent lady, and despite me arguing the nature of rainbows, she truly believes it. In my ‘perplexation’ (I made that word up), the Muslim story of clay birds taking flight when breathed upon, the Christian story of corpses rising from their graves and wandering around Jerusalem, and the golem of Jewish folk-law somehow pale into insignificance.

If anyone has an impossible story from religious myth to share, I’d be interested in hearing it. Let’s keep the thread light please.

[gulliver1]

Let's keep the thread light please, !!!.

[Patsy33]

That's a colourful story! Interesting though, thanks.

[naomi24]

Pardon?

[naomi24]

Sorry Patsy, Cross-posted. That^ was to gulliver1.

[Patsy33]

I realised that. :-)

[naomi24]

:o)

[Old_Geezer]

But rainbow ARE refracted light.

[Old_Geezer]

I see the mobile ignored my 's' >:-(

[cupid04]

I heard that Naomi got religion or is that a myth ;-)

[douglas9401]

Can I get a witness?

[naomi24]

Old_Geezer, //But rainbow[s] ARE refracted light. //

Yes.

Cupid, you misheard. Naomi got RID of religion. ;o)

[Jackdaw33]

The word you were looking for was Perplexity.

[naomi24]

Jackdaw, I wasn't looking for any word. I often invent them. :o)

[Mamyalynne]

As a child I realise my main attention was caught to miracle stories involving food and drink...

The Feeding of the Multitude (5,000 & 4,000)

Then when a bit older


The turning water into wine at the Marriage at Cana.


Maybe I saw them if true as a solution to many problems, the innocence of youth eh?

[Khandro]

Your friend was probably told such stories when she was a child, has always loved that story and doesn't want to cast it aside, It would seem to do no harm. We can all dream, (I hope).

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

[naomi24]

Khandro, //Your friend was probably told such stories when she was a child//

No doubt - but I'm surprised she still believes it.

[Khandro]

Might there not be different types of "belief"?

[naomi24]

I don't think her belief in this involves anything more complex than believing he slid down a rainbow - as another child would use a slide.

[agchristie]

I can't think of anything at the moment but will have a think!

Your friend must have a spectrum disorder o:)

[Khandro]

naomi; Is there no space in your world for allegory and metaphor?