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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Randy
date: 2006-03-28 22:37:04
subject: Re: Yeah, riiight

From: Randy 

Phil Payne wrote:
>>Maybe you've already picked out your 70 virgins for the next life and are
>>just dragging your feet at acting on your beliefs?
>
>
> I've had enough trouble with a handful of virgins, let alone 72.
>
> It's the 80,000 servants that would worry me.
>
> Plus the direct implication in the Koran that the virgins actually remain
> virgins.  And nowhere does it say 72 "each"  - they might
well be shared.
>
>
I'm trying to remember where I saw it, but someone commented that the 72
virgins may not be what it is made out to be; that through a translation
error the 72 virgins were actually 72 white raisins--a alleged rare
delicacy.

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