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Add Homonym Attacks! #42

Ad Hominem: Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason.
Ad Hominem Attack: An argument that focuses on a personal attack as opposed to the subject in question.
Add Homonym Attacks!: The process by which one inserts a homophone and it bites you.
(It also serves as the title to Inside Pulse Beyond the Threshold’s representative column in the world of Critical Thinking, Science and Skepticism.)

Intro

I like bible quizzes. We’re going to have one!

Five Multiple Choice Questions about your Holy Bible

1) Finish the quote: “Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her” …

A) “beg forgiveness.”
B) “pray.”
C) “be burnt.”
D) “drink from thy cup.”

2) The Bible does not contain:

A) Giants
B) Unicorns
C) Punishments for pedophiles
D) Satyrs

3) Finish the quote: “He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off”…

A) “shall be afforded the rights of a female.”
B) “shall feel no shame in the countenance of the LORD.”
C) “shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.”
D) “verily, is like a bull without horns.”

4) Which of the following is not from the bible?

A) “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.”
B) “And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them.”
C) “And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.”
D) “And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters.”

5) The Biblical diet: Which of the following is not from the bible?

A) “The other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.”
B) “For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.”
C) “Whatsoever hath fins and scales ye may eat.”
D) “And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man.”

Outro

I expect everybody to pass without cheating. As usual, answers will be afforded next issue.

And remember “everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.”