Stan: See, at least Roger shows the proper respect for this holiest of days.
Roger: Oh, I love your religion. For the crazy! Virgin birth? Water into wine? It's, it's like Harry Potter but it causes genocide and bad folk music. Eh? Eh? Who-who am I nudging? There's no one next to me.
From season 5, episode 9: Rapture's Delight (F.K.A Holy Crapture)
The Meaning of Life
People are pretentious. Most everyone I speak to believes that the world will end in their lifetime. That they are vastly superior to anyone that came before them. People manipulate any piece of data to make it fit into whatever they want. For thousands of years we have heard people say that such and such a battle or war was predicted in the bible and said that it will bring the beginning of the end. Even now there are thousands of people that think the world is going to end on December 21, 2012? This is based on an arbitrary date that was a result of the rolling over of an ancient and no longer existent numbering system of the Mayans.
Every time one of these deadlines comes and goes you would think that it would make people immune from being caught up in the next one, but this is not the case. As an example, in 1822 there was a man named William Miller who predicted that the second coming of Jesus Christ was going to be on or before 1844. He attracted a large number of followers and when the predicted day finally came and passed like every other day... More
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