Turkey Just Like Grandma Made It
A "Religiholic" Parable
A young mother is preparing a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
Her daughter watches with interest as the mother slices off the ends of the turkey before placing it in the roasting pan.
The young girl asks her mother why she did this.
The mother pauses for a moment and then says, "You know, I'm not sure. This is the way I always saw my mother prepare a turkey. Let's call Grandma and ask her."
So, she phones her mother and asks why they always slice the ends off the turkey before roasting.
The Grandmother thinks for a moment and then says, "You know, I'm not sure why either. This is just the way I always saw MY mother prepare a turkey."
Now the two women are very curious, so they pay a visit to the great-grandmother in the nursing home.
"You know when we prepare a turkey," they explain, "we always slice off the ends before roasting. Why is that?"
The old woman replies, "I don't know why YOU do it, but I never had a roasting pan that was long enough."
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)