What? 40 posts in an nobody wants to brag about how every naked woman their with prays loudly?
(oh god! oh god!)
I don’t remember seeing that particular interpretation before, but I don’t think anybody knows for sure what was really going on in that story. See the Straight Dope Staff Report: What’s up with the biblical story of drunken Noah?
(The headline and URL indicate that the linked article is “Part 1” but I couldn’t find a Part 2. Anybody know what’s up with that? Was it originally two separate columns that got combined into one?)
Some of my most fervent prayers come while I’m on the toilet. I’ll just leave it at that.
Rules from the East: if your prayer is for obtaining something material - land/woman/cattle/gold - then there are rules. The more things you want, the more rules there are and the stricter they become. Not following the rules of prayer/liturgy/ritual in such cases will not only not give you what you seek, it can actually bring you the opposite. However if you pray out of devotion, and have asked for nothing in return, then there are no rules at all: you can pray while crapping and it is fine.
I had a girlfriend who was raised Catholic and she mentioned that, when she was deep in the clutches of adolescence, during a droning sermon she’d look at the crucifix and imagine the loincloth slipping down.
I intended to, but was too late.