(I’m ringing up a young couple for a video game. The girlfriend asks about the game and the boyfriend describes it to her.)
Boyfriend: “[In the game] you’re one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.”
Girlfriend: “Which one?”
Boyfriend: “War.”
Girlfriend: “Who are the others?”
Boyfriend: “Famine, Pestilence, and Plague.”
Girlfriend: “Who makes this s*** up?!”
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Grrrr. Practically the only positive thing religion gives us that we wouldn't get from atheism is picturesque old mythology, and we can't even get that right any more. It's "War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death", idiots! Death! Plague and Pestilence are the same thing, as you'd know if you had the vocabulary of a tenth grader!
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We have a set of old haggadahs that refer to one of the plagues as "murrain". Until there was Google, I had no fucking idea what it was.
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