[Laurence Payne]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:43:02 -0500, George M. Middius cmndr
[underscore] george [at] comcast [dot] net wrote:

Important documents, yes even scripture do suffer from errors. A well
known example is the comment that it's harder for a rich man to get into
heaven than for a "camel" to pass through the eye of a needle. Someone
dropped the (camel) hair rope from the expression.

Ah, but the meaning got through the eye of the needle though.

Not really. When I heard the expression about somebody trying to get a
camel through, I immediately dismissed it as nonsense on the same level
with the story about Jonah or the one about the snake and the apple. Pure
hogwash, that is, without a shred of redeeming value to compensate for the
ridiculousness.

I did have the good fortune not to be brainwashed with christian dogma from
an early age. Those who were not so fortunate continue to have problems
differentiating reality from fantasy even at ages well past the threshold
of adulthood.

And there's another opinion, that the "Eye of a needle" referred to
the narrow gate in a city wall.

Both pieces of sophistry are unnecessary. A real camel and a real
needle provide a perfectly good humorous example of an impossible act.