>*But*, all of the tired nonsense about
>the virgin birth, perpetual virginity and the like is long gone.
Really? I bet if I dropped into a Catholic church in Queens I'd find plenty of it.
And don't forget Satan! He's among us!!
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/national/14SATA.html>
>INGLIS, Fla., March 13 - Carolyn Risher, the mayor of this little
>town, never saw Satan riding in the back of a Cadillac down U.S. 19.
>
>She never saw him buying grapefruit at the curb market, or ordering
>up a soft-serve chocolate and vanilla swirl at the convenience
>store, or trying to trade in a stereo speaker at the pawn shop.
>
>She never saw him buying shiners at the bait shop, or clinging to a
>pole at the firehouse, or sunk down in a pew at the community church.
>
>She never saw him.
>
>"Never," she said. "But I have felt his works." She felt him every
>time she saw a molested child, or a burned house.
>
>"I can't see the wind blow, really," Mrs. Risher said, "but I have
>felt its effects.
>
>"People call and ask me, `Carolyn, is Satan there?' And I tell them,
>`Satan is only where we let him.' "
>
>So Mrs. Risher, the mayor in this town of 1,400 residents for as
>long as many people can remember, sent him on down the road.
>
>She has made international news by banning Satan, by mayoral
>proclamation, from the Inglis city limits.
[...]
I'm so glad we don't live in one of those benighted fundamentalist Moslem states!
Doug