[yongjik]

I also heard the story (actually, a slightly different version involving a bus driver with faulty brake) in "God Sacrificed His Son" setting, and man, that's totally fked up. I'm just glad I didn't hear it as a child. I might have actually believed that BS.

I mean, a man goes to work which involves speeding trains, and he lets his son play in the railroad? Out of sight? Assuming he's such an idiot, where's his manager and why does the manager even allow that thing? Does the manager even know it? How many safety regulations should be violated for this to happen?

And a speeding train is on a collision course with another unless one single guy moves the gear in time (with a few seconds of safety margin)? Think about it. What happens if the guy has to go to pee, or (more realistically) he had a heart attack?

It's doubly fucked up when used as a Christian parable, because, you know, isn't the whole point of God that he's omniscient. (And he designed and built the whole railroad system with zero safety margin... God knows why.)