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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:24:00 -0500
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On 1/16/2025 4:37 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 1/16/2025 3:19 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>> On 1/16/2025 4:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 1/16/2025 3:09 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:15 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 1/16/2025 2:05 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:27:20 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:39 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:28:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm reminded about a parable about a poor widow contributing 
>>>>>>>>> two tiny
>>>>>>>>> coins, a trivial amount, but “Truly I tell you, this poor widow 
>>>>>>>>> has put
>>>>>>>>> more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out 
>>>>>>>>> of their
>>>>>>>>> wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything —all she 
>>>>>>>>> had to
>>>>>>>>> live on.”
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So she starved? WTF? Are you really OK with that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good point: WTF!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll bet you think the guy who told that tale should have been
>>>>>>> crucified, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good grief, Krygowski, you have no idea who made that story up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [raises hand]
>>>>> Uh, Mark?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-42/
>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-43/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As one godless heathen to another, I say "well-played sir, well-played"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Merely not being a Christian is no excuse to ignore English lit!
>>>
>>
>> ?
>>
>> I wouldn't exactly call the bible english lit.
>>
> 
> It's absolutely fundamental, and a gargantuan outsized influence on 
> everything which follows, from Shakespeare to Lincoln.
> 
> (The King James anyway. If you read it in the original Hebrew (Part I) 
> and Greek (Part II), then I have no opinion
> 

True, but except for the recent movement in some states to shove the 
bible down students throats, you won't find many English lit classes 
where the bible is on the syllabus (nothing showed up in my half-assed 
search, I could be wrong).

I was however surprised to see how many colleges have a "bible as 
literature" course offering.

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