The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.