Nice one, which I missed amidst Bertie's massive lifetime opera..

Seems to be the geneis for the Hottentot quip [or fill in any presumed-heathen-Logo]
(and applicable in deconstruction of Lord of the Flies)
(which leads on into ...)

A 'civilized' person can simulate a Barbarian, but not vice versa..

There's Lots of good stuff too, in the [First Evah ?!?] current Equal-Time for-the-Opposition series, A Brief History of Disbelief, hosted by a suitably low-key, oft wry non-theologian. Snippets:

The Necessity of Atheism by Percy!
(yep, - Bysshe Shelley, anothe poet drowned ~ age 30. Have always suspected Fatherland Security on that boat trip.. Keats probably nailed by a proto-Repo du jour?) They were not amused at Percy's University. He left.

Then a Universal Panacea within one quip ~~
"It is not so much that most people manifest 'a belief in god' so much as, 'a belief in the Belief in God'"

Recursion for reprobates?

Then there's David Hume.


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