There is a God.
And He apparently has nothing better to do than coerce cultures through the millenia into such things. :?
I'm gonna take the rest of the day off and wrap my brain around the universe and a LONG Island Iced Tea.
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."
Jacques Servan, 1767