Re: $1 coin chances now - boy, have we gone way OT


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The third printing dropped that part altogether in favor of some
verses from the New Testament. That's why nobody reads it anymore.

James the Biblical

Right. It was in the recently issued "Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes
for the Patriotic" by America Love It or Leave It Publishing, a
subsidiary of Limbaugh Enterprises, Inc.

Presumably some readers were confused by the way that they rewrote the
parable of the Good Samaritan so that he walks away in a huff
muttering "Damned foreign socialist parasites! They expect us to fix
all the problems that they bring on themselves. Why am I supposed to
bind and anoint his wounds? What's next - health care for lepers?"

No, that's the way it was originally recorded from oral tradition back in
the first century CE. But then a bunch of libruls at the Council of
Nicaea made such a stink, that in the spirit of bipartisan
problem-solving against a deadline, the story was revised and became part
of the canon as we know it today. Thus, ALIOLI Publishing must have
gotten its hands on the original manuscript after all, as we know they
are wont to do.

Fundamentalists to the bitter end in every sense of the word!

- mazorj the Revisionist
"Give me $5 and 5 minutes and I'll prove anything you want out of the
Bible."
- Fr. Bloom, my 8th-grade religion teacher

Fr. Bloom had to have been the gem of the diocese, of that I am certain.

James the Backslider

Fr. Bloom, or Freddie as some of my less pious friends called him, was
indeed a gem. He was a convert in his early thirties who hinted broadly
that he had led a life of unspecified sin before getting religion. He was
extremely charismatic and well-liked - energetic, open, down to earth, and
he treated us as budding adults rather than with the catechismally
regimented discipline of the nuns. (If you still find yourself starting
to genuflect whenever you hear a cricket clicker, you have nuns somewhere
in your background!)


Reminds me of the young priest who joined our parish when I was a teenager.
He used to be a pool hustler and when he learned I had my own table at home,
he brought a dozen cue sticks to a CYO meeting he hosted and gave them to
me. Cool priest! The religious brass actually made him leave after a year
when they felt he had become too well liked by the kids. He had tripled the
attendence at what had been rather boring weekly CYO meetings for parish
teens. Could have been the record hop he instituted after each meeting, but
I'm sure it more likely was the scripture he preached.





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