This is a little excert out of the book below. I wish there were a picture of it, cause it's a really pretty little pink book.
-10 Facts about the Church you are least likely to hear in Sunday School.-
1. The Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible which neglects ot mention God.
2. Although the Church frowned of adultury from the beginning, it didn't get around to banning sex with animals until the Council of Ankara in AD 314.
3. The modern Confessional box was invented in the Middle Ages to help prevent women from being sexually assaulted by priests.
4. The early Christian Church held that the Virgin Mary was impregnated through her ear. Paranoia about arual sex was so widespread that the naked ear was considered sexually explicit, hence the fashion for tight-fitting wimples.
5. The Catholic Church accepts cannibalism as a justifiable means of saving one's life.
6. Onan, the son of Judah, "spilled his seed" in the Old Testament (Genesis 38:8-10), thus becoming the Bible's sole masturbator. The passage is the basis for the Church's unreserved condemnation of masturbation for centuries, and gave tise to the expression Onanism, a term for self-abuse which was still popular in Victorian times.
7. The Old Testimate book Ecclesiasticus reccomends clearing the stomach by throwing up before or during a big meal to make room for more food.
8. (Something about Lepers, and how they were written off as dead, even though they were alive.) Most lepers probably had syphilis. Sometimes even a bad case of acne would get you marked as a leper.
9. In the 12th and 13th centuries the church declared a holy war on cats, because they were ambassadors of the devil. After two centuries of persecution, the cat population of Europe was decimated, and there followd an explosion in the rat population, bringing with it the Plague. The Catholic church duly reversed its position of cats, and issued a new proclamation that anyone caught abusing a cat would be excommunicated.
10. At one time you could be excommunicated for wearing a wig.
(What section should I take the next fun facts from? You tell me. This one was from "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know". Other choices are "Entree", "Love Hurts", "Courting the Muse", "R.I.P.", and "Ad Naseum".) | 
