The person who made the cross famous was nailed to it because he
threatened the power structure in that country at that time, not
really because of his beliefs.
But "...one man was nailed to a tree for claiming that it may be
good to be nice to each other for a change..." is from the
beginning of Douglas Adams' So Long and Thanks for All the Fish:
"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one
man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be
to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own
in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it
was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew
how the world could be made a good and happy place. This
time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get
nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone
about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea
was lost forever.
This is her story." |
