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Just for instance, "... I asked her if she had ever encountered an intelligent person who privately believed in the Immaculate Conception* - which of course she hadn't; and I also asked her if she had ever seen an intelligent person who was daring enough to publicly deny his belief in that fable and print the denial. Of course she hadn't encountered any such person."
As a follow-up, someone ought to ask Palin/McCain if they think the Iraq War was conceived by the doctrine of Immaculate Conception... or what? (*There have been two (2) debates now, ostensibly on 'national secruity' issues and not one question on *WHY* the U.S. is at war in Iraq. How can that be - there must be a reason?)
I've got a headache,
bah.
*Throughout Mark Twain's writing, he confuses the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception with that of the Virgin Birth of Christ. (Devoto)
