TWO

Who could have given God the notion of creating male and female beings and making them couple? Here is man, and lo! He gives him woman. She has two teats and a little slit between her legs. Put a drop of human semen there, and a regular human body will come out; that poor little drop becomes flesh, blood, nerves, skin! Job said it in Chapter ten: “Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?” In all his works, God has something comical. If he had asked my opinion of human procreation, I would have advised him to stop at the lump of clay. And I would have told him to put the sun in the middle of the earth, like a lamp. That way, there would have been daylight all the time.

Martin Luther