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The most serious demand for unquestioned belief is, of course, the atonement. First the believer is to suspend familiar notions of justice, such as punishment for the guilty as opposed to an innocent party. You are then expected to accept the necessity of blood sacrifice for sin; that wrongdoing must be paid for, and not necessarily in proportion to the crime. A father's sacrifice of his innocent son is supposed to be not only just but generous and wonderful. Then the temporary three-day feath of this one person is supposed to wipe out all the wrongdoing and ineptitude of a species. And finally, you should believe that all you need do to erase responsibility for your actions and enter a haven of eternal reward is to believe. It's no wonder that once a convert has wrapped his or her mind around this story, anything can be accepted as truth. The rest of fundamentalist doctrine can be easily swallowed, including Jonah.
Marlene Winell, Leaving the Fold (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1993), p. 75.
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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: February 3, 2008 4:16 PM, by PZ Myers
OK, so I was sent this picture, and I want to make it clear: this is not me giving a lecture.
Although, I must say that if you look closely, there is a distinct resemblance to Ken Miller…could he be a closet cephalopodophile?
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Comments
Some are born cephalopods,
Some achieve cephalopoddity,
Some have cephalapoddity thrust upon 'em.
Posted by: Anon | February 3, 2008 4:41 PM
You know you're famous when your homemade porn gets leaked onto the internet....
Paris Hilton could learn a thing or two from you, methinks.
Posted by: maxi | February 3, 2008 5:02 PM
Smooth operator.
Posted by: danley | February 3, 2008 5:02 PM
I'm the pied piper,
cephalopod o' me.
Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | February 3, 2008 5:13 PM
As the nephew of a Cephalovestite, this pictures brings back some sad memories.
I can still remember the sight of his low-swinging tentacles, asking us what we "ink" of his new outfit...
Posted by: Joe M | February 3, 2008 5:54 PM
If I had this suit, I would wear it to teach the first day of classes every quarter. And probably the second day. And...
Posted by: Robin Zebrowski | February 3, 2008 5:55 PM
You know, there was that South Park episode where the Queer Eye guys were revealed to be Crab People...I detect a thickening plot...
Posted by: Jennifer | February 3, 2008 5:58 PM
Be honest, you want an outfit just like it.
Swing low, sweet tentacle...
Posted by: Janine | February 3, 2008 5:59 PM
Since cephalopods are godless, tentacled abominations by default, that yould make Miller a closet atheist as well.
Posted by: forsen | February 3, 2008 6:09 PM
You've got to be squidding me.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | February 3, 2008 9:10 PM
It can't be a lecture. It's Saturday.
You (or Ken..really, it's none of my business) look fabulous, though. Really. If I weren't happily married, straight, square enough to be a little scared by transvestites, and content to confine my, ahem, explorations to others of my same species...well, I don't know what would happen. But I'm fairly sure that there isn't any religious tradition that wouldn't consider it an abomination.
Posted by: Dave Eaton | February 4, 2008 12:17 AM
o_0
I've....I've seen that before. On a Chan.org site. I think a /b/tard made it.
It is definitely NOT something I ever expected to creep out of the murky depths of 4chan or 7chan.
Posted by: flame821 | February 4, 2008 7:59 AM
As a devout Architeuthist, I'm deeply offended by this blasphemous portrayal of Our Holy Prophet and wish you all to rot in Spermwhale-belly forever !
Posted by: Fun-die | February 4, 2008 8:19 AM
Whoever it is has good legs. I'll give him that much.
Posted by: Seamyst | February 4, 2008 10:08 AM
While it may slightly resemble Ken Miller, that is obviously Mark McGwire.
I had no idea 'roids may produce tentacles.
Posted by: Dan | February 4, 2008 12:52 PM
Wait, you mean this ISN'T the result of a bet you won against Phil Plait?
Posted by: Ploon | February 5, 2008 9:00 AM
PZ,
Have you ever seen this gem of a film, "Calamari Wrestler?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428662/
I was exposed to it at a party -- thankfully I don't remember much.
Posted by: TikiHead | February 5, 2008 2:29 PM
The Calamari Wrestler.
Posted by: PZ Myers | February 5, 2008 2:52 PM