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DANCING WITH BAPTISTS
“Did you write a textbook? Do I get college
credit for answering you? The South, okay. Texas fought with the South.”
“And lost.” Chap jabbed a bit.
“Yes. What does that have to do with your
curse?”
“Well the curse of Ham is what a bunch of you losers used as an excuse for keeping slaves.”
“I never had a slave. I had a Robbie the
Robot.”
“You remember Noah? I bet you used a different crayon for each one of the animals. You
probably had the 16 color box.”
“48 count.”
“Including Flesh?” Chap asked.
“Yeah, that’s right. Flesh was in there. Kind of pinkish like.”
“So, Noah had three sons. Remember their names?”
“Sure, there was Shem,” Greg said to Chap’s surprise. “Curly and Noah, junior.” Chap was no
longer surprised.
“How old were you when you were saved?”
“Twelve. Want to hear all the books of the Bible in order?”
“Then you were baptized?”
“Well…”
Chap prodded.
“You haven’t been baptized?”
“Well, I was going to be baptized. But then I remembered the thief on the Cross.” “Go on,”
mean.”
“Well, Jesus said the thief would be with Him in Paradise and he wasn’t baptized. The thief, I
“So, let me get this straight, with all the heroes of the Bible you learned about as a child, the
one you identified with was the thief on the Cross?”
“Let’s get back to your book,” Greg redirected.
“Noah had three sons-“
“Da da da Da. Da da da Da. You ever watch
My Three Sons? What can I say? I’m incorrigible. I admit it. But c’mon anybody would be
thinking of that theme song with that set up. ”
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