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

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

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

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.