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Phone calls from God still had some children in awe Thursday morning at St. Nicholas of Myra vacation bible school.

“He told me to fish for people,” 8-year-old Noelle Nunes said, “and tell everyone about him.”

“He told me to follow in his footsteps,” 7-year-old Jack Dubois said. “The phone call really surprised me. He didn’t say an awful lot, he just told me to follow him.”

Every child participating in this program received a call from God Wednesday as they took part in games, music and crafts all this week at the church’s vacation bible school.

St. Nicholas of Myra vacation bible school, Taunton Gazette 108 Comments [8/11/2010 8:59:54 AM]
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#1191058

On one hand, it's just bible school.
On the other hand... creepy.

Hey cool, first.

8/11/2010 9:02:11 AM

#1191059

HazelHolly

lul wut?

8/11/2010 9:02:44 AM

#1191062

Pretending to be God. Isn't that a sin?

Why don't they build a really big head that looks like God's face and someone can hide behind it and talk through a megaphone.

8/11/2010 9:05:49 AM

#1191066

GigaGuess

I don't agree with it...it sets them up for a nasty fall when they learn they can't just chat with God, and have to rely on faith...but honestly, this one's pretty harmless, IMO.

[EDIT] And then I accidentally WTF it. *facepalm at own fail.*

8/11/2010 9:07:59 AM

#1191069

Nackles

Yet another case of "the end justifies the means"--as long as you're doing it for your faith you can lie, cheat, steal, and send letters saying "Your son is in hell" to people who've just lost a gay son.

This is so totally fucked up.

8/11/2010 9:09:43 AM

#1191070

Bobby

And in other news Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and an intelligent fundies are also real.

8/11/2010 9:11:10 AM

#1191091

Horsefeathers

I'm pretty sure pretending to be the Voice of Gawd is some sort of blasphemy or other. Personally, I say you're treading a thin line when you claim you're speaking for god and at least one of the morons running this place is pretending to be god.

8/11/2010 9:29:40 AM

#1191116

Almafeta

"And how do you know God is real?"

"I've spoken with him, duh!"

And out of such 'harmless' actions are blind faith made.

8/11/2010 9:49:12 AM

#1191117

Neserit

When I was about 6 or 7, I got a phone call from David Hasselhoff during his Knight Rider days.
It took me a few years to realize that my mom and my cousin did it.
Point?: There's more chance in David Hasselhoff calling me back then than God calling anyone on a phone.

Still, it will piss them off for years to come over being tricked.

8/11/2010 9:50:08 AM

#1191120

Dexter

"participating" in a "program"

and

"phone call" from "god"

Yeah... riiiiight...

They have no shame! Tricking minors and pretending to be god. They have no shame!!

8/11/2010 9:52:31 AM

#1191121

JohnTheAtheist

Child abuse, plain and simple. The message is "follow me or spend eternity in agony with a scary monster". Douchebags.

8/11/2010 9:52:31 AM

#1191122

Berny

Lying-for-Jesus to kids since 100 CE.
Children have not developed critical thinking skills at that age, so it's easy to fill their heads with all manner of stupid shit.
It's the religious indoctrinator's best ally.

8/11/2010 9:53:18 AM

#1191127

Percy Q. Shunn

Did he call on a land-line, or use a cell?

8/11/2010 9:59:15 AM

#1191134

LDM

Impersonating God?! That's blasphemy! You sinners will all burn in Hell!!

8/11/2010 10:03:52 AM

#1191137

Vince

So similar to santas lap at the mall. But creepy somehow...

8/11/2010 10:06:34 AM

#1191140

Zeus Almighty

@ 1191059

Ignore the man behind the curtain.

8/11/2010 10:08:25 AM

#1191142

dionysus

Awesome, so I guess if we check the phone records from that day we'll get god's phone number then? Somehow I think we'll find a series of calls coming from your location though.

8/11/2010 10:09:42 AM

#1191143

Justanotheratheist

So that's why God created cell phones. It took him a while, but I guess a few thousand years is nothing when you've got eternity.

8/11/2010 10:11:34 AM

#1191146

Swede

Shame on you! It's very low to lie to young kids.

No, I don't like people to lie to kids about Santa Claus either.

8/11/2010 10:14:45 AM

#1191155

tjonp

You know, it must of taken a lot of effort to coordinate this event. It would have been a lot simpler to pray and ask for God to actually call... since, you know, they believe he exists and answers prayers.

8/11/2010 10:18:26 AM

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8/11/2010 10:20:45 AM

#1191169

Allegory for Jesus

If that's how God communicates, I guess he has communicated with me after all! Though he should probably speak a bit more clearly. Obscene phone calls from God aren't as informative as you'd think they'd be.

8/11/2010 10:37:37 AM

#1191177

WWWWolf

> Every child participating in this program received a call from God Wednesday as they took part in games, music and crafts all this week at the church’s vacation bible school.

When I was a kid, I got "hidden files" from Santa Claus that told where the presents were hidden. I tried my hardest to ignore the fact that metadata pointed to my father.

Yes, I knew about author metadata when I was a kid. What makes you think the kids won't start ask inconvenient questions about caller IDs and whatnot?

Bottom line: Cute trick, but will lead to questions.

8/11/2010 10:56:53 AM

#1191186

Patrick

This is downright vindictive.

8/11/2010 11:12:50 AM

#1191187

BobsOldSocks

Sickening.

8/11/2010 11:14:06 AM

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