son of a bitch

The ignorant christian myth machine scores another small victory.

When I was little, I learned that men have one pair less of ribs than women. This was back when I still went to bible school, back in the days before I was thrown out of confirmation for asking too many pointed questions.

Somehow, over the years, this "factoid" stuck, and my brain tried to wrap some logic around it. I always figured that this was a fact, and that it was the ROOT of the biblical myth of Eve being created from Adam's rib.

Tonight, it came up in a conversation with Adrienne, she said "God, that's stupid. Why would that be true?" Sure enough, I googled it, and it's utterly false.

What's bizarre is that it rested in my brain for years, and I never questioned or thought about it. It's weird to have a fact vanish from your brain like that.

I wonder what other things I believe that are completely false, that were snuck in there when I was young and impressionable. Stupid church.