2001-11-22 Well, that is news to me! I had no idea English was spoken in Judea 2000 years ago. For some reason I thought it was Aramaic and Hebrew. And the educated spoke Latin and Greek. I should have known English was the language of choice then too. I'll bet even Adam and Eve spoke English. And the Neanderthal too!
Well, if we are going to start using Bible measures, then we have to give up inches and feet and pounds too. We have to start using Biblical units. The Bible forbids following practices of non-believers. The units of British origin go back to Babylon and Babylon is consdered the symbol of sin in the Bible. Thus the British units are units of evildoers and sinners. Can you imagine the reaction of the BWMA if they were told the units of Britain are also the units of sinning Babylon? Is Vivian Linacre really Satan in disguise? We should have known this all along. John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2001-11-22 11:26 Subject: [USMA:16306] attitudes > I just read the October issue of English Today, an English language magazine. > This issue contains a lot about English as a world language. On p. 11 I read > something that says a lot about attitudes, which of course is important for > metric too. A school superintendent in Arkansas refused to introduce foreign > language teachting at the secondary level with this argument: "If English was > good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for you". > Imperialists could claim: "As Jesus did not use metric, the world should not > use metric." And the condemnations of false weight and measure in the Bible > name non-metric units of course. In the nineteenth century extreme Imperialists > turned this into a condemnation of the metric system! > > Han > >
