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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:54:58 -0600
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On 1/16/2025 4:24 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> 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.
> 

Correct.  Each man is on his own regarding deeper meaning or 
lack thereof. But it really is fundamental to understanding 
English literature.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971