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Atheists & Agnostics

edhopper

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3. looked into this

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Sun Aug 16, 2015, 09:49 AM

Aug 2015

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19430610&id=B_ouAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8tsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6073,1895145&hl=en

So tons of scrap steel was authorized to make steel covered bibles. Given to service men exactly with the hope they would stop a bullet. How many were there. Hundreds of thousands? millions?
The odds that a few would save a GI here or there are pretty good. But how many carrying them were killed?
Sounds a lot like the "miracles" when one person lives in a disaster that kills hundreds.

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Religion In The Comics - 037 [View all] Cartoonist Aug 2015 OP

A bullet-proof Babble! mr blur Aug 2015 #1

The steel cover had nothing to do with it Lordquinton Aug 2015 #2

looked into this edhopper Aug 2015 #3

"Night...off a North Korean shore!" onager Aug 2015 #4

This detail struck me as off too Lordquinton Aug 2015 #6

Oh THAT old tired myth AlbertCat Aug 2015 #5