Bible Studies

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Then
the man said,
'The woman
whom
You gave
to be
with me,
she gave me
of the
tree,
and
I ate.
[Genesis 3:12]
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"I think he was a
jackass,
Lord."

[PATIENT GAZE.]

"Five minutes in
Eden: and,
he's ALREADY...
playing the wife*-blame-game."

[PATIENT FROWN.]

"Was he an APE,
TOO?"

[CHUCKLE.]
"Don't judge
him too harshly,
kin'der."

"No, I'm SERIOUS!
WAS he an APE?"

[TURN TO HIS
RIGHT.]
[SIGH.]
[GENTLE LAUGHTER
CAN BE HEARD
FROM THE RIGHT
SIDE OF THE THRONE.]
"No,
Mein kin'der."

"How do I KNOW?
I was FORCED to
study DARWINISM,
in HIGH SCHOOL**!"

[NOD.]

"Yeah;
that, and
GEOMETRY..
and DODGE BALL***..
really gave me
a lott'a LIFE SKILLS."
(Snort.)

[PATIENT SIGH.]

"So.....are You
SURE,
that Adam wasn't
an APE?"

[SOLEMN NOD.]

"Was he HAIRY?"

[BURST OF LAUGHTER
FROM THE RIGHT
SIDE OF THE THRONE.]

"Was he SMELLY?"

[CHUCKLING.]

"Did he like FRUIT:
especially,
the BAD KIND****?"

[CHUCKLING.]

"Did he screech
at his barefoot
and...
pregnant WIFE,
a LOT?"

[THRONE ROOM
IS THUNDERING
WITH LAUGHTER.]

"Did he FOLLOW
other ANIMALS,
around: GRUNTING,
and GRIPING?"

"Oy vey 'z mir,
child."

"WELL?
So, what's the DIFFERENCE?"

[PATIENT GAZE.]
"Me,
child.
Me."
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Then God said,
Let Us
make man
in Our image,
according
to Our likeness.
[Genesis 1:26]


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*Eve was pretty
stupid too;
you think.. after
the fifteenth-hundredth
childbirth,
she would'a found a
sharp rock, somewhere,
and performed...
the First Circumcism.
**Philadelphia public
schools: half the time,
the teachers were on
strike, and I got to
stay home, and watch
'The Brady Bunch'
and 'The Partridge Family.'
***Of the three subjects,
dodge ball has proved to
be the most useful:
I learned how to dodge
a lotta' two-legged apes.
****No pun, intended.

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