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Thanks for that Snopes Piece, Elliegal. "Clear-cut cause-and-effect pairing provide far more comfort than does accepting the harsh reality that we live in a world of no assurances at all, a world where bad things can happen at any moment, to anyone, for no discernable (and thus no preventable) reason. Our ancestors, and modern day Democrats, coped with that feeling of powerlessness by inventing myths about petty, lust-filled, vengeful gods, who, even if they were capricious in their actions and insensible to the human misery their warring caused, were at least tangible entities who could be identified as the cause of otherwise unfathomable catastrophes."

Have to say, I find Mikkelson's writing far more prescient than anything Carlin ever did.