{"id":1115,"date":"2009-10-14T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/what-really-happened-to-the-dinosaurs.html"},"modified":"2009-10-14T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:55:53","slug":"what-really-happened-to-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/what-really-happened-to-the-dinosaurs.html","title":{"rendered":"What Really Happened To The Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What happens when you try to really explain to a precocious, dinosaur-obsessed<\/a> three-year old about Moses and the Ten Commandments:<\/p>\n

Emilia: Moses was this man and God gave him the Demandments<\/a> on some rocks?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Stone tablets, which are like rocks, only they look like paper, sort of.<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Paper rocks?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Did God send them in the mail?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: No, he sent them down from the sky.<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Where he lives.<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Basically<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Emilia: Did he throw them?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well, not really…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: How did he get them down?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: He, um, reached…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Does he have really long arms?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: No…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Did he drop them?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Was it like when the rock came out of the sky and killed the dinosaurs<\/a>?<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well, no…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: Maybe God killed the dinosaurs!<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well…<\/i><\/p>\n

Emilia: WITH HIS ROCKS.<\/i><\/p>\n

Me: Well…
<\/i>
Emilia: Does Barney know about this?<\/i><\/p>\n

Ten bucks says Barney doesn’t.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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