malor comments on Jason Marlin's account of being struck by lightning

Churches had been thought to be the safest place to store dangerous things, because God would protect them there, and well, a lot of people paid with their lives for that decision -- while whorehouses, sporting the fashionable new lightning rods, never got hit.

It was the first really large conflict between science and religion, where religion made one prediction, and science made a different one.

Science -- and the prostitutes who believed in it -- won.

Who'd have thunk?