reading the bible
Evangelists often preach around campus. Likely due to the impending election, I've been noticing more religious groups hanging out around campus this fall. Last Friday, some Gideons were intercepting people and handing out pocket new testaments. So I have a pocket new testament now.
I've never read all the way through the Bible, just bits and pieces from a childhood sporadically attending services and skimming sections for academic quizbowl. It's been something that I've wanted to do for years now, given its significance to such vast swaths of the population. I doubt many of the people who received pocket bibles are using them, especially since it is the King James version, but ChatGPT said I could read the whole thing in 3 months if I read for 15 minutes a day.
And eventually I'll get to read my favorite passage (that I know of):
The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
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