The Mass

[Cartoonist]

That's quite a claim at the end. Who can argue with scholars?

As for the rest, that's religion for you. They know it's boring, so they have to make a musical production of it. Maybe science should try that.

[tblue37]

1. Interesting. Thanks. K&R. nt

[The Genealogist]

2. Maybe borrow show tunes

And set scientific theories to the music? Maybe get Randy Rainbow to help?

When I took Hebrew years ago, we had a song about verbs set to the tune of The Beach Boys "California Girls"

[DetlefK]

4. That part about the connection to theater and drama is hogwash.

European theater (including concepts such as stand-up comedy) comes from greek theater.

And the modern european-style drama with multi-layered stories and metaphors and hidden meanings comes not from the church-choir but from images and visual memes of medieval books. (For example, that's where the trope that an ugly person is evil comes from.)

[MineralMan]

5. I think that last panel is a big stretch.

Modern drama really follows ancient Greek theater more than the Mass.