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Cartoonist
Mar 2018
OP
What sort of moral monster would give a man figurative pizza and beer?
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2018
#7
Mariana
(14,849 posts)1. You know what would have been really awesome?
If Jesus had restored the man's sight. But he didn't. Oh, well.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)2. Fortunately, this story is a myth.
Postnik Yakovlev wasn't blinded by Ivan Grozny. He actually went on to design more churches after St. Basil's Cathedral.
Ivan Grozny did beat his son to death, though. But that's another story for another day.
Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)3. You're not supposed to take these things literally.
Just use it as an inspirational story.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)4. Geez, literalists.
What can you do with them?
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)5. You could give them pizza and beer.
I'll take that pizza and beer and now. Kthx.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)6. Oh and I suppose it has to be *literal* pizza and beer too, huh?
Honestly.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)7. What sort of moral monster would give a man figurative pizza and beer?