"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:


"God does not deduct from the alloted time of man those hours spent
fishing."
-- Unknown

"Jesus was a commercial fisherman" (Bumper sticker on the back of a
pickup at Fishermen's Terminal in Seattle)

You know, that's probably more biblically correct than the common
assumption that Jesus was a carpenter. There are multiple references in
the Bible to Jesus going fishing on the Sea of Galilee, but I don't
recall ever seeing or hearing of any biblical reference to Jesus doing
any carpentry work. I guess the religious lesson to learn from that is
that it is holier to go fishing than to do any actual work. :-)


He worked on Lymans.