I'll Never Get Y'all to Read the Bible, Will I?

The other day a friend was describing to me his experience of how anarchist-ish spaces seem to spontaneously spawn oligarchs.

The other day a friend was describing to me his experience of how anarchist-ish spaces seem to spontaneously spawn oligarchs. I told him, “Bro, you really need to read the Bible. This is just like the story of Saul and David.” This wasn’t the first time I told him to read the Bible. He thought that “Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders” was something that Christopher Moore made up for Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. I think that everyone should read the Bible. It’s profoundly sad that most people, if they encounter the Bible at all, encounter it only…

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