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Your daily allotment of cats with random facts... (Original Post)
Fearless
Apr 2012
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Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)1. The Catholic Church saw cats as tools of the Devil.
Since the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, they concluded that cats themselves must be evil, and must be destroyed.
Leaving the rodent population to explode, exponentially, without cats to keep them in check.
Thereby sealing the fates of a hundred million souls to die in agony.
The same type of superstitious idiots get to vote in this country.
siligut
(12,272 posts)2. Superstition makes us out to be idiots
The plague is a good example of the disaster that can follow when we fail to pay attention to reality.
sakabatou
(42,163 posts)3. Muggles
trueblue2007
(17,230 posts)4. cool pictures
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)5. Wouldn't #2 be counter-clockwise?