Things that make you go "hmmmmm..."

I recently picked up 5 People Who Died During Sex - And 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists by Karl Shaw (ISBN 978-0-7679-2059-9, for those who care). Lemmee tell ya, fascinating stuff. So as a public service, I thought I'd periodically share brief passages of this highly topical and relevant book.

(Editors note: I make no claim as to veracity of this information. In fact, I found one blatant error, namely under the list No Nearer My God to Thee: Quotes from Twenty Dead Atheists, it quotes Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson wasn't an atheist--he was a deist who saw Jesus as a great prophet, though questioned his divinity. Jefferson wrote in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, dated April 21, 1803, "[t]o the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.")

Speaking of religion, under the list of Ten Appalling Pontiffs is Pope Boniface VIII.

Boniface got rid of his predecessor, Pope Celestine V, by locking him up in
Fumone Castle and leaving him there to die of starvation. Boniface was
an atheist who had numerous gay lovers and was eventually tried for heresy,
rape, sodomy, and eating meat during Lent. Boniface didn't attend his
trial and escaped punishment, but went mad soon afterward and committed
suicide. Pope Clement V had Boniface's body exhumed and burned as a
heretic.

Emphasis added. Hmmmmm...