Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sumerians_look_on_in_confusion_as

"The Sumerian people must have found God's making of heaven and earth in the middle of their well-established society to be more of an annoyance than anything else," said Paul Helund, ancient history professor at Cornell University. "If what the pictographs indicate are true, His loud voice interrupted their ancient prayer rituals for an entire week."

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gotta the love the onion. one of the first pieces i read by them years ago was one about a little boy who had prayed to god to heal his paralyzed legs. the headline was "god answers prayer, says no". so brutally funny.