From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 19:52:22 MDT
In a message dated 6/27/02 15:14:58, mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
>Dream on. Ask those 14% how many times they've gasped "oh god" in
>coitus. There are no atheists while they are holing foxes (or foxes
>getting holed).
This is a common statement, but it's not true. WWI soldiers were a
notoriously irreligious lot. 4 years of senseless, brutal, random
carnage apparently did a lot to disabuse people of notions about
supervising entities.
The "oh god" business is interesting. I actually never said that
during sex, but I do use religious terms when cursing. I still haven't
the slightest belief. Those kinds of interjections are apparently
divorced from their meaning. I do think that the tendency to use
religious words under such circumstances reflect some built-in
biology, as with similar uses of bodily function terms. If we
understood the wiring we might better understand how people
fall so easily for such nonsense.
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