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So basically this guy has no use at all for the modern world and wants to return to the noble and enduring truths of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. I am waiting to hear that he has denounced modern medicine, public sanitation, the practical use of electricity and the printing press as all being the work of the devil.

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Every last one of these scamming asshole prophets will tell you it's the <i>other</i> scammers who are false prophets.

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" is the one that really drives 'em nuts.

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It's probably passed around the lunch table at the NSA, for the laffs.

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Certainly one of the most difficult things for wingnuts to create. They also suck, spectacularly, at constructing rational arguments . . . I wonder if there's a connection.

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<i>Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP.</i>

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I don't know, but, boy it was so tedious without the fornication. Felt like a hundred frickin' years!

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Swanson puts the <i>anal</i> in analytic geometry.

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"By their nuts ye shall know them"

FTFYall

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<i>It’s also pretty remarkable to see a rightwing Christianist admit that the Constitution is such a secular document... </i>

WHHHHUUUUU?????

My mind is more blown than the roadie who decided who got to go backstage at a Mötley Crue concert in 1987.

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I note how he omits all the Gnostic philosophers who argued that the divinity of Jesus was impossible, given his execution and apparent lack of foreknowledge of the event until just before it happened. Because literal truth, I guess?

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The latter, obviously. Servant girls have no rights which any decent, God-fearing Englishman needs to respect.

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"By their fruits you shall know them", when applied to biblical characters, or God himself, has surprising results.

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<em>“By their fruits ye shall know them”</em>

This is a Gaydar reference, amirite?

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