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As carpenters do find out of experience, 'tis much better build a new sometimes, than repair an old house; I could as soon write as much more, as alter that which is written.
- Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

And every writer on the face of the earth nods fervently...



Also, pissed off about the Pope. Couldn't give a monkey's about him as a spritual leader, and you can't expect a great deal out of the guy on top of a dogmatic hierarchy in any case, but his radical theological positions[1] will, reallio trulio, fuck up large parts of society in large parts of the world. Now somebody get me another bourbon.

[1] The Nicene Creed is conservative[2]. Papal infallibility fucking is not.

[2] But not sane. Why was there no-one who just stood up and said "Why are we trying to catch God in a net of little words?"[3]

[3] Because Constantine had already corrupted the church with temporal power, I guess. I wonder if there's a named heresy that takes Constantine as the antichrist?