Laura sent an e-mail to a mutual friend, letting him know about a Terry Jones show on TV this week, The Story of One.
Here’s what she got back:
Ah yes, one.
It’s given us all a lot of trouble.
First the Jews turned it into a religion.
Then the Christians showed up and kept calling it three.
The Manicheans—remember the Manicheans?—kept insisting that it was really two halves that never belonged together.
Then the Muslims came along and all we ever heard was One One One.
Dreary.
With the Middle Ages things calmed down.
We kept our one faith over here, they kept their one faith over there.
Lots of ones but it seemed okay as long as we built high walls.
But after Mr. Fibbonaci came back from India with the zero, one never recovered.Have you?
—from “From Zero to Ten in Five Theologies,” by
Msgr. Ambrose Poppensweet, S.S.R., L.L.T., P.G., and R.
The dude’s got blogging potential, doncha think?
