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Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

If they did, we would know them by the bleeding from their ears.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

I think you must be referring to Frank Lee Preposterous.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

The doctor who performed my colonoscopy?

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Lefty Mark's avatar

So did I during the same time period, except that I continued through one and a half years of high school. But in my schools there was only one course each year that had a tie-in with Catholic theology. It was called "Religion."

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Ikimizi's avatar

I think it was his letter to the Danbury Baptists, who were afraid of persecution by the Congregationalist majority in Connecticut.

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Ikimizi's avatar

I was with my Mom and my aunt this morning, and we saw a guy with a walking stick carved like a snake, so I made a reference to Pharaoh's magicians turning sticks into snakes, and then got to listen to them discuss how "they were using the wrong power", as if it really happened. Sigh.

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Ikimizi's avatar

The best thing about starting your own religion is you get to make up all your own rules. Also, my Holy Book is the Hitchhiker's Guide.

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The Quirk's avatar

War is peace, Freedom is Tyranny, and these guys clearly believe Ignorance is Strength.

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artem1s's avatar

not beating your kids is bad parenting; AKA spare the rod defense.

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artem1s's avatar

you can be sure that whichever they settle on will agree that the wimmenz and coloreds don't get a say in how they are <strike>oppressed</strike> saved.

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artem1s's avatar

That's kind of the way I always felt when I heard the radio version credits of HG: Peter Jones as THE BOOK.

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artem1s's avatar

I'm thinking the classes that involve peoples' naughty bits are the main ones they are upset about. We are talking about Santorum here.

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bobbert's avatar

The Endarkenment.

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Chris Grrr's avatar

No Liberty Left Behind.

At least they're warming up to recycling, even if it's bad old ideas.

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PubOption's avatar

Absence of a religion is a religion. Could that principle be extended to other things, is it a viable defense to driving without a license?

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PubOption's avatar

Is the USA still in an enlightened age?

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