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The only thing worse than a religious fanatic is a religious fanatic who doesn’t think he’s religious.

– Fr. Dwight Longenecker

From the blog Glib and Superficial comes the theory that each denomination has its own Santa, as well as the following characteristics of said Santas:

• Catholic Santa brings toys to all the little girls and boys who wrote letters to Mrs. Claus, because her appeals to Santa are particularly efficacious.

• You never know to whom Anglican Santa will bring toys, because he suffers from multiple personality disorder. But Anglican Santa always wears the coolest Santa suit.

• Pentecostal Santa delivers a great abundance of truly inspired toys. Sadly, they make no sense to anyone else.

• Presbyterian Santa delivers presents based on his own inscrutable election, and not on account of any merit; but niceness is evidence that the person is one of the Elect, so we do expect to see presents going to the nice — but only because they’re elect, not because they’re nice.

• Fundamentalist Santa stays home on Christmas, because toys are of the Devil. Besides, he knows that all children are totally naughty and deserve only coal.

• Society of Friends Santa sits passively in his sleigh on Christmas Eve, waiting quietly for the Holy Spirit to inspire him to deliver toys.

• Baptist Santa delivers only commemorative plates on which are depicted actual toys, because good little Baptist girls and boys don’t believe in the real presents of Santa.

• Episcopal Santa is a lesbian trapped inside a man’s body. He delivers no toys at all, but leaves pledge cards for the Save the Whales Foundation.

• Conservative Lutheran Santa warns the children not to accept toys from other Santas because he is the one true Santa.

• Liberal Lutheran Santa issues a statement apologizing for his past complicity in the injustices of private toy distribution, and urges government control of toy production and distribution.

• Muslim Santa? Well, just don’t let him park his sleigh too close to your house.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

– G.K. Chesterton

The very people who are so insistent that any health care bill be “pro-choice” are also the people who want to imprison those who choose not to carry health insurance.

As if to prove my point about the high concentration of stupidity in Congress, here is a story about a bill concerning a government takeover of college football.

Are these really the people we want to entrust with legislation concerning health care and global warming?

The highest concentration of stupidity in this country, apart from Congress, can be found in the comments section of the website of any major metropolitan newspaper.

Emotional: the most overused word in all of sports commentary.

Thomas Hobbes said: “The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.

Hey, good thing about the short part, huh?

I think the Mayans merely ran out of paper.