"It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one must suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

Perhaps, however, there was a good reason.

There has been in England, ever since the rise of the textile industry in Lancanshire, a close alliance between missionaries and the cotton trade, for missionaries teach savages to cover up the human body and thereby increase the demands for cotton goods. If there had been nothing shameful about the human body, the textile trade would have lost this source of profit. This instance shows that we need never be afraid lest the spread of virtue should diminish our profit."

~~~Bertrand Russell~~~
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"Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely-powerful infinitely-knowledgeable universe-spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life."

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I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor … and surviving.

~~~Col. Walter E. Kurtz~~~

"Pictures of the invisible world can have wild inaccuracies, but every view that flourishes does so because it solves at least one major problem.

Building pictures of the invisible world is the human way of trying to deal with the world we see.

Animals and human beings are both up against a world where most of what determines their fate is invisible to them at the moment.

To a monkey in a clearing, food is nowhere in view.

Often, neither are the males he's competing with or the females he's competing for.

The infants he's contending for the right to father do not, as yet, exist.

The predators who could end his life are equally hidden from sight.

But he has to deal with all of these to send his genes into the next generation."

~~~Howard Bloom~~~