Both Eyeballs
“Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning hath made thee mad.” — Porcius Festus, procurator of Judea from about AD 58 to 62, to the apostle Paul.
At least once in nearly every episode of the Three Stooges films, Moe Howard uses the first two fingers of his right hand to poke the eyeballs of Larry or Curly (or Curly Joe or Shemp); the attack was so popular that a Stooges defense emerged, wherein the victim quickly lifted a vertical hand in front of his nose, and Moe received a between the fingers web bruise.
I mention this only in passing, because I’m going to Moe eye-poke the very next fundamentalist who attacks my use of intellectual sources outside those commonly touted among the Chosen by quoting the second of these two semicolon-joined sentences without acknowledging it was directed at the apostle Paul, who was the Much-Learned One — and yet remained a Christian.
You’ve been warned.
