A scene from The Wicker Man 1973
Sergeant Neil Howie

Your lordship seems strangely... unconcerned.

Lord Summerisle

I am confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant. We do not commit murder here. We are a deeply religious people.

Sergeant Neil Howie

Religious? With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests... and children dancing naked!

Lord Summerisle

They do love their divinity lessons.

Sergeant Neil Howie

But they are... a-are naked!

Lord Summerisle

Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on.

Sergeant Neil Howie

What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?

Lord Summerisle

Parthenogenesis.

Lord Summerisle

Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.

Sergeant Neil Howie

Oh, what is all this? I mean, you've got fake biology, fake religion... Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?

Lord Summerisle

Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost.

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