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Subject: Re: UL: NASA and the bible / missing day
From: Ralph Jones
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:53:16 -0600, "Tom Sevart"
wrote:

>> >Alastair Rae scribed in news:3e48ead5.79332744@firewall:
>>
>> >> What goes on in a guy's head as he tells as fact a blatant untruth
>> >> - a fiction of his own devising - to a class of school kids?
>
>It's called "pious fraud." In other words, some people believe that it's OK
>to make up a story or fake a miraculous event in order to get people to
>believe. Or in other words, the ends justify the means.
>
>Tom
>
You mean I WOULDN'T have gone blind?