pissing off the polar bear

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Parading an unshakable belief system in the search for a spiritual understanding is like hunting an angry polar bear with a slingshot: It's just likely to piss him off worse.

Check it out.

I mean, check out the belief system, not check out the slingshot. 

Pissed-off polar bears are not something to mess with.

But then, come to think of it, neither is spiritual life.
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