Pulaski

For clarity, please can you provide an example of a non-fictional deity?

SultanOfSwing

The FSM, obviously ...

I know what you mean, it was a bit redundant, wasn't it?

BubbleChog

or the IPU

Sally Redux

Haile Selassie?

Sally Redux

He's not wrong about European Christianity.

md95065

The whole Christianity thing is a great example of the terrible consequences that can result from what must, at the time, have seemed to be a harmless little white lie ...

(Although one does have to admire Mary's ingenuity in explaining away just how she got pregnant ...)

Sally Redux

Italian milkman

moneypenny20

The mother was often accused of sleeping with milkmen. Brother ranga w/ brown eyes, sister ash blond w/ hazel eyes and me brunette w/ blue eyes. Infact the grandmother (her mother) told me my dad wasn't my dad, the local gp was. That was a fun conversation.

Beaverstate

I was found under a rock, so they say.

mikelincs

I was a real bright ginger as a child, and the local GP was also ginger haired, neither of my parents were, a 'friend' of my mother did make some comment about my parentage, my mother didn't speak to her for several years after that.
It transpired that my grandfather, who died before I was born was also ginger haired

Sally Redux

My mother

*blood pressure tablets*

SultanOfSwing

It also explains the dim-witted naivete of everyone else for believing her story

I was, apparently, the end result of too much sparkling wine. Lovely.

Bob

The South Caroliner cop shooting/murder.

Bonkers. Makes you wonder how often something like that might happen and getting away with it if it hadn't been filmed.

Wonder how much cop cams cost and the cost/benefit of them would be.

Sally Redux

Horrifying.

Pulaski

There was a similar shooting/killing in Charlotte, NC at the end of 2013. The case will go to trial in July. The charge of "voluntary manslaughter" has a maximum penalty of (only) five years. ..... IIRC two officers already had the "situation" under control, the situation actually being a car break down where the driver had knocked on the front door of a nearby house to ask for assistance, when this idiot cop races up, pulls his gun and fires, hitting the victim with 10 of 12 shots. Even a fellow officer at the scene was reported to have exclaimed something like "WTF?"