“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.” PeopleReligionChurchFeminismPleaseCatholicTablesFingersDiscouragedCatholic ChurchForksObsceneUtensils Author:Robin Morgan
“Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.” DifferentHandsActionCertainIndividualChurchShapesFingersSatisfiedOccasionsCharacteristicsBagsSentimentsOfferingDroppingCollectorsVelvet Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.” ImportantTurnsChurchAtheismEventsRevolutionFingersProfitPositive AtheismCalamityImportant Events Author:Voltaire