tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post4560942293012383964..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): Pope Francis ... wowsers!... not!genkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-26924104055731072852013-12-28T14:05:53.543-05:002013-12-28T14:05:53.543-05:00For no particular reason this post reminded me of ...For no particular reason this post reminded me of two of Mark Twain's published comments on religion:<br /><br />Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.<br />-from "The Lowest Animal"<br /><br /><br />In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.<br /><br />- from "The Autobiography of Mark Twain"<br /><br />Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910).<br /><br />Clemens was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return.Finn Fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-60645581332379439422013-12-28T12:18:12.907-05:002013-12-28T12:18:12.907-05:00Papal schisms are not new, reformers have come and...Papal schisms are not new, reformers have come and gone, these many years later it's still leaching off the poor and offering in exchange something that doesn't exist. The only real change is it's value as a political engine has waned significantly.olcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00309255390011851502noreply@blogger.com