[Vision2020] Origin of the Bible

[Pat Kraut]

Sue this is really funny! 



From: Sue Hovey 
  To: keely emerinemix ; Ralph Nielsen ; Vision 2020 
  Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Origin of the Bible


  Reinds me of the time one of my students wrote on her American History test, "Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence because he was a Virgin."

  Sue
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: keely emerinemix 
    To: Ralph Nielsen ; Vision 2020 
    Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:37 AM
    Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Origin of the Bible


    Ralph, that kind of humor's been around ever since Columbus circumcised the globe . . . 

    keely

    > From: nielsen at uidaho.edu
    > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:20:02 -0700
    > To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
    > Subject: [Vision2020] Origin of the Bible
    > 
    > From the Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 76.
    > 
    > Story too long to copy here, but it ends thus:
    > 
    > What, you may wonder, is so important about how long a female wasp 
    > spider copulates? The longer the copulation time, the greater the 
    > chance of fertilization of her eggs.
    > 
    > For some reason, this story reminds me of a line a student wrote in a 
    > paper for my philosophy of religion class some thirty years ago. I 
    > remember it as if it were yesterday. "The Bible," he wrote, "is not a 
    > single book. It is the copulation of many books."
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