(December 25, 2010 at 6:13 am)padraic Wrote:(December 25, 2010 at 1:03 am)theVOID Wrote:(December 24, 2010 at 5:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I just completed my annual viewing of Life of Brian....
"Blessed are the cheesemakers."
Or was it all dairy producers?
Trivia: Coincidence: I read 'somewhere' that during the first century CE,the place where Jesus allegedly gave the sermon on the mount was known as (drum roll please)-----The Valley of The Cheesemakers. ( I wouldn't be at all surprised if John Cleese made that up)
Not John Cleese but Flavius Josephus makes reference to the Tyropoeon Valley (Valley of the Cheesemakers) but places it in Jerusalem rather than Galilee where the alleged "sermon on the mount" took place.
I recall a documentary some years ago in which the alleged multitude for the alleged sermon was considered. Apparently not only is there no where in Galilee where a crowd of thousands could gather and still hear the speaker ( "I can't hear a bloody thing") but the very idea that a bunch of peasants would give up their subsistence living to go listen to some wandering preacher was pretty laughable in and of itself. Those people had better things to do than listen to some asshole....like eat.
