November 24th, 2007 -- by Bacchus
Saint Thomas Aquinas Talkin’ Dirty
As quoted by Luis Bunuel here:
Connoisseurs who like their martinis very dry suggest simply allowing a ray of sunlight to shine through a bottle of Noilly Prat before it hits the bottle of gin. At a certain period in America it was said that the making of a dry martini should resemble the Immaculate Conception, for, as Saint Thomas Aquinas once noted, the generative powers of the Holy Ghost pierced the virgin’s hymen “like a ray of sunlight through a window—-leaving it unbroken.”
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Ignoring everything else that’s off about that statement, wouldn’t that just make the labor that much more painful?
Too bad Bunuel was such a poorly catechised Catholic. The “Immaculate Conception” refers to the conception of Mary by her parents; she was conceived “in the usual way” but free of Original Sin, to make her an appropriate mother for the Son of God.
What Bunuel and 99% of the uneducated populace is refering to above is the _Virgin Birth_ (of Jesus) not the Immaculate Conception (of Mary).
A common but oh so tedious mistake.