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What’s the Opposite of Seeing the Virgin in a Cheese Sandwich?

That would be, I would guess, seeing a cheese sandwich in a picture of the Virgin Mary. While we might wonder about the psychology, and perhaps the timing of the last meal, of the viewer so inclined, we would probably shrug and say, “SO?” Because cheese sandwiches just aren’t as exciting as godheads. Just sayin’. [...]

Graverobbers R Us (but if we can’t find the right corpses…)

Medicine has a long (several thousand year) history of graverobbing. You see, for most of the history of medicine, examining actual bodies has been considered, well, sacrilege. And that didn’t even come from the monotheistic tradition (although the Torah made the rules about dealing with the dead very clear)–it dates all the way back as [...]