We saw a goodly number of equestrians and equestrianesses as we passed along, the former accoutred in the brilliant and graceful Peruvian costume.

Nope - Someone telling me about his or her deity/ies does not make me a theist - it does not convince me. For someone to become a theist, they will have to become convinced that there is a deity - If I informed you about the tiny, little elf in my closet - would that make you an elfist? Hopefully you'd still lack elfism despite my informing you.

Management won't go for such a risky project now.

They commodify the same spectacle of purity and violation as the tabloids, but unadorned by faux sentimentality: 18 year-old strippers dressed as pubescent virgins are initiated into the ranks of what Max likes to call 'fuckmeat.'