ext_150902 ([identity profile] scribb1e.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nameandnature 2008-10-23 05:36 pm (UTC)

"For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest—a sign of strength and rule."

I understand why you're fuming, but my reaction was laughter :-)) This is such a hilarious quote. I assumed at first that the blogger had made it up, but he turns out to be quoting St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215).

Wikipedia has no pictures of St Clement, but I imagine him toiling away with brush and papyrus to show that God thinks hairy men are best, occasionally stopping to plait his chest fur or tuck his beard under his arm. And then retiring to bed to dream about nice smooth women with flowing locks...

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