It's okay to eat fish; they don't have any feelings

Three weeks at the new job and I'm already causing trouble..... One of the drawbacks to working in Ginny Central is everyone and their mother are Catholic. Not that I have a problem with that- you do you, ma- until a co-worker stands up and says, "Psychiatry is a bunch of bullshit. If you need answers, the lord has them."

Now, if you come to me with reports or medical journals discrediting psychaitry as a science, I may be inclined to listen.

Another co-worker, obviously in the midst of couch sessions herself, tried to argue that maybe God put those doctors here to help us. She wasn't having any of it.

So, just to be a pain in the ass, I asked, "Jill, you think we come from monkeys?" She scoffed at the prospect, "If we evolved from monkeys, there'd be no more monkeys." An argument I've heard before, but never provided with an opportunity to retort.

"There are different species of animals. Isn't it possible we evolved from different ones existing now?"

"No. There would just be no more monkeys." Nice come back.

So I ask, "Then what about fish and lizards?"

Right over her head, "What about fish and lizards?"

"Fish evolved into lizards and there are still fish."

Pause.

"WE DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS!"

So now my cell ringer is a chimp. Although, Jill laughs whenever it goes off. So I guess no hard feelings? Or she thinks I'm going to hell and that's funny.