bible quotes not to live by
St. James United Church of Christ in Limerick, Penn. has the following Bible verse as a slogan on their web site:
“If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine” Luke 4:7
Sound familiar? Those would be the words of one Prince of Darkness while tempting Jesus Christ.
Sounds like a joke, eh?
It’s not.
Was it hackers?
Nope.
This boo-boo was all them.
(Don’t go looking for the page. They’ve changed it. Very quickly, in fact.)
Hee hee hee.
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:17 am
[...] If I came up to you on the street and said, “Guess what my favorite news story of 2006 so far is!†and you answered, “Dick Cheney shooting that guy in the face,†I would say, “Wrong!†But first I’d probably say thanks for taking the time to participate in my little rhetorical gambit, as most passers-by are rightly a-feared of being accosted by strangers who want to buttonhole them, and I appreciate the way you didn’t scream or mace me or blow your little pea-less whistle or invite me up to see your etchings, that’s not what I meant by “buttonhole.” Then, I’d tell you my real favorite news story of 2006 so far is this one, about the St. James United Church of Christ in Limerick, Pennsylvania—and thanks to The Sween for alerting me to it! It seems that the good folks at St. Jimmy’s had selected a somewhat troublesome verse for their church slogan, namely Luke 4:7, which reads, “If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.†[...]