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Dinosaurs Equal Giant Buddhas

Tue, 05/29/2007 - 2:37pm — MJS

Remember when the Taliban blew up those giant Buddhas in Afghanistan (only because the Neocons hadn't thought of it first)? Those 1,700 year-old sandstone statues were in league with Danish cartoonists (just a theory, okay?) and were just asking to be obliterated so an all-powerful God would know He was really, really worshipped to the max by the faithful...no karma, no foul, right?

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