The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149778   Message #3489064
Posted By: mayomick
11-Mar-13 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: Test Your Knowledge of the Bible
Subject: RE: Test Your Knowledge of the Bible
What Uncle Dave O wrote about mood swings reminds me of something Brendan Behan said about him being a convinced atheist during the day , but a good Catholic by night.
Mrrzzy , that bit about "or elviticus had committed deuteronomy" wasn't a song . It was Tom Clancy reading from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake .

All the guff coming from English-speaking Catholics about God transmitting some essential truth to his people through the poetry of the bible makes little sense when you consider that He has only allowed the book to be available to English readers through the Protestant Wycliffe's translations made at the end of the fourteenth century .I know people will say that the lord is supposed to work in mysterious ways , but surely He isn't supposed to be an outright hypocrite . Catholics see the Pope as God's representative on earth , but it was one of these reps that ordered Wycliffe's bones be dug up, crushed and thrown into the river for his heresy of translating the bible from Latin . Wycliffe's follower John Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with copies of the translated bible used as kindling for the fire . Where's the poetry in that?

(alright, I got a low score)