>>I don't care if people want to pit their mythologies against each other. It's when they try to drag the rest of us into it that I object. Let them have their fun mythology debates, but let's stay away from mythology based lawmaking.
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>Regarding that Italian comedian... I was shocked that blasphemy is still a crime in some places. Forgot where, though.
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
