Some Light Relief—The Bible Code
The concept of “Bible codes” was something that became popular in 1997, helped by a mass marketed book on the subject. It's a completely bogus idea that there are hidden strings in the first five books of the Bible, and these hidden strings foretell the future.
The hidden strings, or Bible codes, are allegedly found by looking at individual characters of the Bible, starting at some offset, and taking every Nth letter thereafter to form a phrase. It works much better with a Bible in Hebrew because the classic written form of that language does not have any vowels. Hence, you can construct many possible phrases depending on which vowels you choose to put in and where you choose to end a word. “BLLGTS” can be ...
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