Cash, how did the kids react (if they saw him)?

I was going to take the kids downtown to see him but I couldn't get us around. He made the rounds in the building (to raise some more money) and I'm pretty sure he ditched the costume as early as possible. He's got a good sense of humor but that beard looks itchy.

I think it's important that the King James Bible be taught as literature, because it's one of the crowning accomplishments of the literature of the 17th century, and its cadence and phrasing are tremendously influential. If you haven't read at least some of the King James Bible, you're handicapped in reading many authors.

I remember we had to do illustrations in Religious Studies. Nice simple way to see what we were getting. The one I remember most clearly is the temptations of Siddartha under the bo tree. Possibly because I really wanted to draw girls in not much clothes.

When I was in college I took a kind of "Foundations of Literature" class and we had to read the King James. Around the same time I started working as a copy editor at the newspaper. I used my downtime to do my reading for that class. For a semester (this was a very liberal liberal arts college) they all though I was some fundamentalist who relaxed with the Bible.

I just got a ridiculously exciting reprieve -- I have something that needs to be emailed by 3, but I just realized it needs to be emailed to Wisconsin by three! I have a whole extra hour!!

My college required one religion course (it was a Quaker college, afterall.) They had some really interesting and varied courses, in addition to the basic comparative type ones. I wanted to take a fairly broad one. Of course, what happened was that my majors, as usual, locked up my schedule so all I could take was a course on the New Testement. I resented the hell out of it largely because it wasn't what I wanted to take, and transfered this resentment to the work itself. It was sort of literary/historical and now? I'd find it interesting.

At the time, well... there was lots of cursing.

At the time, well... there was lots of cursing.

I can just picture you... "Now what the fuck is Jesus doing?"

The sysadmins need to really not ask my permission to reboot a machine I have no authority over. I told them I didn't, but they seem to have taken it as a yes. Um.

We read a couple of excerpts from Genesis in English, I don't remember which year of high school. Most of what I learned about religion, I learned in history classes.

Nah, Jesus didn't bug me . I mostly snarled at other stuff. Some of it incredibly stupid on my part.