[Vision2020] Origin of the Bible

[Sue Hovey]

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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