course, is that Italians have been modeled on the priests, the only real government they have had since the barbarians sodomizing one of the last emperor perverted Roman because Christianity weakened the old pride of race. Priests ... How I met? In grandfather's house, I think, I have dark memories of fleeting glances, rotten teeth, heavy breaths, sweaty palms trying to caress the neck. Yuck. Idle, belong to the dangerous classes, as thieves and vagrants. One becomes priest or monk just to live in leisure, and entertainment are guaranteed it by its number. If there were, say, one for every thousand people, the priests would have so many chores that could not be lying to throw capons paunch while under his belt. And among the most unworthy priests, the government chooses the most stupid and appointed bishop.
begin to flutter around you at birth when I baptize you find them back in school, if your parents have been so blessed to entrust to them, then comes the first Communion, catechism, and confirmation , and that's the cure for your wedding day to tell you what to do in the bedroom and confession the next day to ask how many times I've done and be excited behind the lattice. We speak with horror of sex, but you see every day out of bed without even incestuous unwashed hands to go to eat and drink to his lord, and then cagarlo and mearle.
repeat that his kingdom is not of this world and put their hands on everything they can bully. Civilisation will never achieve perfection as the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest and the land is free of the mob.
Communists have spread the idea that religion is the opium of the people. It is true, because serves to curb the temptations of the subjects, and if there were no religion, would have twice as many people at the barricades, so in the days of the Commune was little, and could carry it without delay. Of course, having heard from the Austrian doctor of Colombian drug benefits, I would say that religion is the cocaine of the people, because he pushed and pushed religion to war, the killing of infidels, and this applies for Christians, Muslims and other idolaters, and if the blacks of Africa were once limited to killing each other, have become the missionaries and colonial troops have become, the most appropriate to die at the forefront, and to rape white women when they enter a city. Men never do evil so completely and enthusiastic as when they do religious belief.
(Excerpt from "The Cemetery of Prague" by Umberto Eco, Buenos Aires, Lumen, 2010, pp. 22-23)
