Astrogirl wrote:I read it as the Christian biting on the cyanide.
blaine, you were lucky to be born in the South ... of Australia?
I too am unsure, so let's be rational people here and use
context clues.
First, the topic is dedicated to a comic about someone trying to push their religion upon someone else. This is known as
Evangelism.
Second, the poster mentioned that in order to not be assaulted by Evangelists, they must profess to being Christian. Since this would only make sense if the Evangelists were Christian, we can safely conclude that the poster lives in an area with a moderate to large population of
Evangelical Christians.
Now, with that in mind let's return to the mysterious reference to a direction.
South. Whatever could that mean? At first glance I can understand why this is confusing. Why, if you're at the North Pole, EVERYTHING is south! Truly it's a grammatical puzzle which can only be solved by the sharpest of wits.
But this is not so! We have another clue to add to this growing pile of hints and pointers: the post was made in English. Knowing this, the poster
capitalized south as South, which changes it from a simple noun indicating direction to a proper noun indicating a region. Had the post been made in some other, lesser language then perhaps this would have gone unnoticed forever and all meaning hurled into the void.
Thankfully this was not the case, and we can assemble what we have learned into the following:
The South is a region, which is primarily an English-speaking area with a moderate to high number of Evangelical Christians.
From here, we can simply check against what we know of religion and the world and see what we get!
Let's see, if we look south we find Brazil, with ~1/8th of the world's Evangelical Christians! Wow! I guess we've figured it out, case closed right? WRONG. Brazil's official language is
portugeuse and so conflicts with an earlier point. Plus, we learned that south was in fact a region and not a direction, and so were led astray. It is safe to say they were not referring to Brazil.
So let's take a look at another country, but this time South is part of it's name! South Korea also has an incredibly large population of Evangelical Christians. Second largest in the world! Wow! So here we go, South is
right there in the name!!! Surely this is a slam-dunk case and the poster lives in South Korea?
NOPE
As with Brazil, the trouble is that Korea's official language is not English, but in fact
Korean.
So now what?
Well, let's look just a bit further. The largest population of Evangelical Christians reside in the United States of America. Further, the majority of American Evangelical Christians live in a region known as the
South. Finally, while it has no official language the predominant one in the United States of America is
English. Three for three! Perfect fit! All using clues garnered from the text!
Gosh, it's great to be able to think critically about what you read and apply basic kindergarten-level logic to real-world situations.