August 24

[Derek]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Good grief. Reading that makes me feel like I'm CS Lewis or someone. (Not that that's a bad thing.)

Anyway, I have to admit that I didn't even intend half of what you picked up on. Most of what the scenes are, I wrote at face value and didn't even try to draw analogies to the Bible with them.

Matt 9:9-12 is definitely one I intended though. By the way Simon Peter was a fisherman. Matthew (also called Levi) was the only tax collector of the apostles.

The other prominent tax collector in the Bible was Zacchaeus, who has his story told in a fun little children's song that starts out "Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he." Contrast to Kira's "That's not evidence. You're just a wee little man making something up so you can have sanctuary, aren't you?"

Unfortunately, most of the rest was unintentional on my part. The hanging imagery came from the fact that Bek hanged himself, and had nothing to do with Judas. Eblan's "Hey! I know you!" was the start of a reference to a song from Disney's [iost_uid0]Sleeping Beauty[/iost_uid0]. Winn's talk about TV was just a joke about televangelists who denounce television. But after reading what you wrote, I wish I had intended it all.

By the way, Kira's "Just be glad we don't have you measuring the place." was a reference to the rather tedious account in Ezekiel 40-47.

Snake handling is a reference to Pentacostal churches who do actually handle snakes. Their scriptural basis is Mark 16:17-18.

Thanks for posting though. It's great to get new insights on what I wrote. I really appreciate it. Feel free to do it again. [/colorost_uid0]