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| Muhammad Ali: extract; they did it to Jesus |
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| amatullah |
| 04/27/04 at 15:42:53 |
| In October's edition of Esquire (a mens magazine) Muhammad Ali was interviewed. Part of this involved a short section on religion which is cited below: "Never do a trick twice," he whispered after they left. "And never show them how you do it" 'I dont get it, champ,' I said. 'If thats the case, then why did you show them?' "To prove to them... how easily they can be deceived" Ali turned to a Bible on a long conference table - there was always a Bible around Ali - and began highlighting contradictions on its pages with a yellow marker, contradictions that he had listed on a sheet of paper and xeroxed so that he could hand out to just about everyone he met. One passage would call a woman Abraham's wife and another his concubine. One would describe forty thousand stalls of horses for Solomon's chariots; another would list the number as four thousand. I had seen Ali examing these contradiction often in Dublin, 'Why,' I asked, 'do you spend so much time on them?' "To show people... how easily they can be deceived" We went on some more, and at one point he whispered, "In a hundred years... they'll turn me white" 'What?' I asked. 'How could they do that?' "They did it to Jesus" [Esquire, Oct 2003, p 138] Later in the article he is asked 'What are your biggest regrets?' to which he replied "Silence" |
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