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I always understood that “Be Fruitful & Multiply” was to be gay and get a degree in math. This is a major reason I’m an atheist.

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Most seem to stick to the marginally less absurd doctrine that the old-timey non-English Bible was corrupted by man but the King James version (despite its well-known flaws) was a divinely inspired correction. Of course, this is almost exactly what Muslims say about the Qu'uran, so, just another way they're the American Taliban or something.

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That is depressingly unsurprising.

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There are a few fertility clinics whose business models depend on the miscommunications.

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Yes, Sanity Clause, there is a Virginia.

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If Jesus is coming soon, I wish he'd double his stroke and get on with it.

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Uncountable numbers of white fundamentalist shitheads, Katie?

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My husband got married at 20, divorced at 22 the first time around. (thank God, no kids) Then he met me when he was 30 and I was 26. Now he's 56 and we're still together.

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America sure has produced some very creative reinterpretation of the Bible.

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Yours is a glorious uterus, Honeychurch.

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Spreading the faith.

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Opiate of the people is drugs too, my friend.

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I didn't mean to imply any equivalence between Nancy Campbell and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Or between Campbell and Lillie Blake, who wrote the comment I cited. I thought it was interesting that the same false etymology showed up in diametrically opposed sources. Folk etymology is persistent; there are lots of people today who think that cheese on toast is a Welsh "rarebit". If I offended, feel free to slay me with votes.

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I think the term they use is "Warriors for Christ". That should scare the hell out of everyone.

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Southern Virginia University and Bait Shop?

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