I think every generation looks back on the past and thinks things were so much better then (ignoring that I was younger, stronger, sexier and more optimistic.)
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Um, why doesn’t he have nipples?
No. Glad we sorted that one out. Happy to help. 
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I refer you to the nip pic posted above.
I was referencing a certain pining among my old community for what they thought of as the great golden age of Jewish life, accurately recorded in Fiddler On The Roof. 
While it wasn’t that simplistic, there was definitely and explicitly an attitude that the modern world was a degenerate age in comparison to the Era of the Great Sages of the past.
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I know that. Many communities have something similar; my suggestion was that it’s simply the historical accumulation of old people thinking things were better in the past, coupled I agree with a tendency to focus around particular periods which are either well documented or have some cultural resonance. There are people in the UK who look back to the period around WW2 as some kind of golden age (when we were important! and we had an empire!), or the Victorian era (ditto).
The Book of Genesis (however you want to call it) has exactly such a story of people looking back to a past era when everything was wonderful, people did not have to work, animals were friendly - and it all went wrong when all these new fangled notions came into people’s heads. The Irish are full of it - nostalgia for an imagined past when Ireland was a land of saints till the English came along and ruined it, whereas in reality the ancient Irish spent their time in cattle raiding and feuding, which is why they never really got their act together.
The Mormons are a wonderful example of a fake religion which has an entire invented past which is completely ahistorical, and a culture which is based, not on the organic evolution of a religion, but on deliberate fraud.
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Those Roman soldiers must have been so intimidated.
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Watch out for Sharia law and campus liberals!
Murk’ns might lose all this freedumb
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“To Everybody in the Business”
Aren’t there any female cartoonists? (Yes, there are.)
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Welp, I was off by $300. Guess I’m the idiot. Still, compared to the average of $9410 for public colleges, not bad.
pretty sure this would get a 0 at any art school
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Yeah, given that it isn’t a commuter college. TRY AGAIN. Its more like 18-20k based on the total cost. But you know…math is hard, and so is reading the bottom line of the damn table I suppose.
But you know…Guess I’m the idiot for going to my state college where I could commute and it cost me under $4,000 per year.
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Ooooh, you got me!! What a dagger! Pics of your buddy taken with a digital camera can be considered along with Rembrandt (or even Rockwell).
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Maybe not mainline Protestants (i.e., those who are direct descendants of Catholicism), but possibly certain types of American Evangelicals. The type of person who would suddenly become Creationist and biblical literalist in order to justify slavery would probably use religion to justify the oppression of women as well.
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Like the modern GOP caring about women and gays only as any excuse to lock up or bomb Muslims.
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The idea that art inherently has to be transgressive is pretty much exclusive to the West and the last seventy-five years or so.
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And still factually incorrect if you leave out the Jews. I think the Catholics have a term “invincible ignorance”. They invented it, the Mormons perfected it.
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Kryten: Sir! You thought Jesus was a hippy!
Rimmer: Well, he was! Long hair, he didn’t have a job. What more do you want?
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Wow. Damn.
I mean, we argue with Him (It?) on a regular basis and win, but I’m pretty sure that that doesn’t count as killing in anywhere but thin-skinned sectors of the interwebs.
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Oh, wait, were they referring to that Nice Jewish Boy that the Romans nailed up a few thousand years ago?
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That’s just bad research, lots of non-Abrahamic religions involve people killing their own gods. It’s also a common theme for at least a few recent premium-cable TV dramas I could name (but won’t for the sake of spoilers).
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