This was the John Snow that knew something.

It’s called a bourdaloue, and you use it like so:

Kill them all, God will know his own.

I object! This is offensive to actual hillbillies

Gong hei fat choy to you too, asshole.

As opposed to orange?

Check this out:

Well, as the Nicene Creed says:

Murica demands that religious icons be done in butter. We are not heathens, ya know.

The only way salting should be done. With honest Roman sweat, from honest Roman brows. None of that poncy Greek shit.

Definately. Roman Soldiers, after they have been demobilized after 20 years of service, are giving a parcel of land to farm (usually in the place these soldiers went in to conquer—most of Scipio Africanus’s men ended up settling down in what used to be Carthage). It’s a great method to rapidly Romanize whatever new…

What are your views on the TV program Bones? And do people in the Anthropology community still bitch about Kathy Reichs for “selling out” the discipline?

Don’t laugh, an S.T.D. is probably the closest to something vaguely sexual some of those poor sods gonna get in this lifetime.

Interestingly enough, 1) That’s Mosaic law, which Christians were never bound under to begin with (See Book of Galatians). 2) Even the Jews, who are bound under the Mosaic Law, were not known for bloodthristiness, there are about 24-50 crimes (depending on how you parse them) under the Levitical code that merit the…

Big fan of gay marriage. Used to stand on a Pride Parade float and toss condoms at people.

Yeah, the atmosphere thing was from St Augustine.

Well, technically, Arius of the Arian Heresy fame died of a intestinal hemorrhage. And most of the people burned for heresy were more killed for political insubordination than anything else.

Well, technically, the three persons of the Trinity (i.e. the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) are fully equal, fully unified and yet fully distinct. One Ousia (essence) in three Hypostases (beings). The Virgin Mary was not, and has never been part of the Godhead. And anyways, God is beyond gender and sex, so…

It always blows people’s minds when you tell them that Nguyen is pronounced something closer to “win”.

Foul!, Illegal pass to a different film!