Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I've always found it amusing/surprising/perplexing how so many of the religious far right are also fanatical market capitalists.

"If you consider that natural selection and the invisible hand are essentially the same concept applied to different systems, that Jesus basically preached socialism, and that the early Christians were the original communists (small c communist, as in living in communes, sharing all wealth, etc) the intellectual disconnect here boggles the mind.

-- Pharyngula reader / Scienceblogs commenter 'amphiox', 2008-10-30, reacting to the spectacle of a crowd of so-called Christians "laying on hands" to a golden calf bronze bull statue on Wall Street to pray for divine intervention in the market.

[Note: fellow commenter Walton takes issue with this interpretation of Smith's invisible hand later in the comment thread, and is in turn gently corrected by Natalie]