Paul's Damascus Road moment involved a personal encounter with the risen Christ.

Mine: realizing that biblical Hebrew and Greek is riddled with naughty language.

Really, this was a landmark moment for me, intensified in graduate school when I read Heiko Obermann on Luther's scatological writings & woodcuts.  

One of my favorite remnants of this rhetoric in English is the repeated reference in the King James Version of the Bible to anyone who "pisseth against the wall."  It's a colorful way of dehumanizing men targeted for death--by defining people in terms of their body functions, the (would be) leaders of a community reduce them to animals and thereby make slaughter more acceptible.

Of course, 2500 years later that tends to get lost in translation, especially among fundamentalist preachers who see this as a biblical mandate for men to pee standing up.  For more on Pastor Steven Anderson, check out the blogs of his wife and church.

Via Andrew Sullivan and Dan Savage