Whew!  You can tell it's Friday!   :-)

Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:15 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Things to Remember
>
> Larry asks:
>
> > 10. Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they
> >      can in prison?
>
> The reason is because the idea of a prison is central to Christian
> theology.
> The word "penitentiary" comes from the Latin "paenitens," meaning to
> regret,
> and implicitly to ask forgiveness. Likewise the word "sentence" comes from
> the
> Latin "sentens", the present participle of "sentire," meaning to "feel,"
> and
> implicitly therefore to think, as in a sentiment expressed in a written
> sentence.
>
> The word "prison", btw, is simply a shortened version of the root word,
> "apprehension," which the Latin root word was "prehendere", to seize. Thus
> if you
> apprehend these few sentiments, the need for a place of penitence becomes
> clear.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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