We have confined the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the orangutan and the gibbon to narrow areas and within our lifetime they could be extinct. We will have murdered our intellectual rivals.
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A clergyman who had two lovely and attractive daughters was once walking with them along a river bank where they happened upon a man fishing. After enquiring about the conditions and whether he had caught anything the clergyman observed, “I too am a fisherman but I fish for men.” With a knowing look at the girls, the fisherman said, “Tou must do well with such fine bait.”
Give or take a few, it’s been 23777 months since the first coming of Christ ended. The Rapture can’t be long now… Can it?
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Christians are always impressed by the reported appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of various saints who pass on a message, usually to a child or someone simple, that the local church should be repaired or that people must try harder not to swear. Carl Sagan asks why these admonitions are so prosaic — why not important and prophetic messages recognizable as profound enough to have come only from God. No miraculous vision criticized the torturing and burning of innocent people unjustly, when they had been falsely accused of being witches. Could these supernatural saints not grasp its evil? And why is Mary always ordering the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she appear to the authorities herself? There is simply nothing convincing in any of this unless presumably you have been indoctrinated into it from childhood.
