From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 20:36:28 MST
In a message dated 12/15/99 5:36:50 AM Central Standard Time,
jsundman@hotmail.com writes:
> But I think credit for this general approach must
> be given to (!) the literal ("fundamentalist") Christian theologians, who,
> according to a copy of Harvard Lampoon that I read on retreat in 1969,
> having abandoned work on microscopic camel, had developed giant needle to
> show non-incompatbility of wealth and righteousness implied in Jesus's
> famous "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than
it
>
> is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
I hate it when this happens....
"The Eye of the Needle" was the name of a gate in the wall which encircled
Jeruselem. It was a rather tight fit for a camel to get thru it....but it
could be done....
Sheesh...
EvMick
Amarillo, Tx.
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