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And in fact plenty of evidence against it, including in ancient (but
post-New Testament) Christian writings. <br>
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I'll restrain myself from commenting on those sermons. Sheesh.<br>
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Fernando<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/27/2015 1:23 PM, Dan'l
Danehy-Oakes wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've heard that about the needle's eye gate, too,
but according to Wikipedia (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate</a>),
there's no real evidence for it.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:13 AM,
Norwood, Frederick Hudson <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu" target="_blank">NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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longer go to church, but when I did the sermons were mostly
about the importance for Christians to always vote for the
Republican party. I remember one sermon about the camel
passing through the eye of a needle. The preacher explained
that "the eye of a needle" was the name of the gate that the
rich used to enter Jerusalem and so the point of the parable
is that naturally the rich would use that gate to enter
heaven.<br>
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Rick</blockquote>
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Carter Professor and Chair
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College Editor, Carus Mathematical Monographs
5836 Mayflower Hill Editor, MAA Reviews
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When a nation's chief domestic product consists of greed, lust, oppression, cruelty, and lies, it needs to be salted until every green thing has withered.
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