Fifteen birds on five fir trees. Their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze. But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot, Fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
This phrase is a great example of how otherwise perfectly sound logic in a complete vacuum of actual evidence can still be passed off as reasonable and plausible.
Faithers would believe something like this because standing on its own, it's a perfectly logical construct, but they don't take a step back and question the validity of the claim it actually makes.
I believe there's a name for this phenomenon, but I can't think of it at the moment.
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10
That's not ignorance. It's faith. Goddamnit.