- Adam and Eve - Judah and Tamar - David and Bath-sheba - Samson and Delilah (for Bible literalists) - Sacco and Vanzetti (for Droopy) - Hansel und Gretel (for bcspace) - Mickey and Minnie - Jonah and the whale (for gdemetz) - David and Jonathan (for Paul) - Sappho and Alcaeus ... - Cardinal Richelieu and Mylady de Winter - an atheist and a TBM in 2003
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I am offended that you would post a picture of a "lady in a sleeveless dress! Have you no decency sir?
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
