Muddy hymnals and some bootmarks where you'd been

[sovay]

After shirei_shibolim:

You know the Bible 92%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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That's pretty hilarious.

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I scored 100%, which even allowing for some informed guesswork is pretty bizarre.

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

I scored 59%. I'm so goddamn pious, is why.

[menin-aeide.livejournal.com]

Hee. I got 93%, beat you!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I was especially amused by "unto us a raven iis given."

[sovay]

20. Who lived to the age of 969?
- Abraham
- Strom Thurman
- George Burns
- Methuselah

. . . was my favorite, I think. Also the miracle of the take-out Chinese food.

But who calls it livin', when there's no one who's givin' to a man who's lived 900 years?

[weirdquark]

And sadly I knew the answer to that one, not because even if you don't know anything about when biblical people died, the second and third are clearly wrong, but because of having heard "It Ain't Necessarily So" back in high school.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

And the creation of myspace on the Fourth Day.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

92.0% here as well.

"14. Who called down fire from heaven, contesting the prophets of Baal?"

I was looking for the answer to this for at least six months, dammit.

[sovay]

I also liked the idea of the miracle of the Chinese take-out.

[sovay]

I was looking for the answer to this for at least six months, dammit.

What for?

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Some of the wrong answers would make great stories themselves...

[sovay]

Some of the wrong answers would make great stories themselves...

This is true.

"How did the Israelites get into Egypt in the first place?"

"They swam."

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

The Chinese take-out would definitely explain a lot. And then, Mary and Martha living in San Francisco (though somehow Philadelphia amuses me more), God being the partying friends of the Prodigal Son (or the Prodigal Son himself, which would explain the capitals and a lot of theological conundra and mesh interestingly with Prometheus), Jesus telling stories about Donald Duck, Joshua announcing that his house will serve the turkey/establishment, Henry VIII as the first King of Israel (actually not the weirdest historical analog for Saul), Jesus raising Rip van Winkle from the dead, Esther as a narrative of the Apocalypse, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your elbows" (I think there's actually a song like that), King David's grandmother Lydia, Jesus walking the Via Dolorosa (or wandering around the streets of Jerusalem) with his disciples after the Ressurection, Israel bicyling to Egypt (someone told me once that for many Israelis Yom Kippur is now a biking holiday; that would explain it). And number 7 somehow just makes me picture Jehoshaphat, Moses, Noah, Paul all together on some gameshow team.

You know, the more I think about it, the more awesome the idea of God as his own Prodigal Son really is.

[sovay]

You know, the more I think about it, the more awesome the idea of God as his own Prodigal Son really is.

You should write all of these as mini-midrash. They would be awesome.

[stsisyphus.livejournal.com]

I was mapping out some scenes for a potentially embarrassing piece of fanfic. The scene takes place between a crass pyrokinetic and a lunatic "monster hunter" who references everything through the Bible. She accuses him of being one of the lost priests of Ba'al, demanding how he managed how not to get his head cut off all those millenia ago. I think he goes off on a comparative religion rant about the origins of Ba'al.

I think she tries to knife him after that, but I'm not sure...

[larryhammer]

I did the same, with the same reaction.

---L.