QotD
"I've always found it amusing/surprising/perplexing how so
many of the religious far right are also fanatical market
capitalists.
"If you consider that natural selection
and the invisible hand are essentially the same concept applied to
different systems, that Jesus basically preached socialism, and
that the early Christians were the original communists (small c
communist, as in living in communes, sharing all wealth, etc) the
intellectual disconnect here boggles the mind.
-- Pharyngula reader / Scienceblogs commenter 'amphiox',
2008-10-30, reacting to the spectacle of a crowd of
so-called Christians "laying on hands" to a golden
calf bronze bull statue on Wall Street to pray for
divine intervention in the market.
[Note: fellow commenter Walton takes issue with this
interpretation of Smith's invisible hand
later in the comment thread, and is in turn
gently corrected by Natalie]