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If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me. (lemmy.world)
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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Then there's also in a sibling desert religion how "40 figs" became "40 virgins" and nobody remembers when or how it happened... or even that the switch happened, at all.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was grapes, not figs?

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

If it was olives, we might have an explanation...

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

While we're here, should also point out the fruit Adam and Eve ate in the garden was likely a fig. They do after all immediately after pick up fig leaves to cover themselves. Somehow it turned into an apple in the popular imagination..