Originally posted by Pauldo@Sep 8 2005, 12:16 PM

When I first started hanging around with my wife-to-be, we used to take Jeepney rides around the town, and every time we passed a church she would cross herself and say prayers for a safe journey. I used to laugh at her and say "It's THAT clown (pointing at the retard driving) there who you should be talking to, as he is the idiot running red lights and overtaking on blind bends". Such simple people, so brainwashed, so ignorant of the basics in life.
Mine still does the sign of the cross before she goes to sleep each night. It's actually quite cute. Even though she has admitted that it's unlikely Jesus was the son of God and conceded, intellectually, that most of the bible is nonsense, based on old myth and fairytale. Yet she still won't go to sleep without doing the cross. You can't defeat that level of brainwashing, where even though, intellectually, you know it's nonsense, you are brainwashed with it from day one and cannot bring yourself to risk NOT doing the cross before you sleep.