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Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath: No form of sexual depravity is too low for me. Animal, vegetable or mineral, I'll do anything to anything!
Blackadder: Fine words for a Bishop. Yes, nice to hear the church speaking out for a change on social issues.

"He spares nauther for synne ne shame
For may he tyl a woman synne
In priveyte he will not blynne
Er he a childe put hir withinne
And perchance two at ones."
— 14th century poem, describing the friar who "came to our dame when the gode man is from home."

"If there is truth in the popular legend, that the Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun, how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!"
Desiderius Erasmus in response to Martin Luther's marriage to former nun Katherina von Bora.


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