Just as unsettling, though for
less noble reasons, is the suicide humor (albeit delivered by a fish) tossed randomly into «Horton Hatches the Egg», a cartoon that as a whole is the least faithful of all the adaptations on the DVD — while the gag of following «now I've seen everything!»
Those that I have known who have left traditional church did so for
less noble reasons than your post describes.
I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other
less noble reasons.
Not exact matches
The
less - than -
noble reason is (of course) all the food.
I think that there is an element of this that can be seen in the Climategate emails, but I think the motivated
reasoning by climate scientists is more complex (and ultimately
less «
noble»).