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Talking Philosophy
“Catholics are f****d too,” Reverend Hershel Beam said, “led around by the nose as they are by the pope. When the potato was introduced to Europe, the pope condemned it as the devil’s food because potatoes are grown in the ground. Then Europe suffered a famine when ice storms decimated the grain crops throughout France and parts of Europe and millions died of starvation.”
“Wasn’t that the plaque, Hershel, brought on by God when Europeans turned away from Him to follow the bishop of Rome?”
“That came later, Randy, and had nothing to do with potatoes.” The evangelicals stood in the road outside the farm. In the small pasture across the road, 12 Israeli Holsteins and their offspring tore into two large round bales of hay. The dairy cow pasture no longer large enough
