{"id":88,"date":"2008-12-18T18:03:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/penn-gillette-loves-him-some-g.html"},"modified":"2008-12-18T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:03:05","slug":"penn-gillette-loves-him-some-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/penn-gillette-loves-him-some-g.html","title":{"rendered":"Penn Gillette Loves Him Some Gideons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first time I saw the little green version of the Gideon’s Bible was in college.  (Not a Bible really.  More like 1\/3 of a Bible.  It’s got the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs.)  I was driving my car along the what’s called the “Green” in Hanover, New Hampshire, when some zealot threw one in my car through the open window.  Being a Christian, I simply added that Bible to my burgeoning collection of Bibles and mused on the oddness of the spiritual discipline of Bible-throwing on target.<\/p>\n

Well, my favorite magician, who also happens to be an outspoken atheist, Penn Gillette<\/a>, was recently given the very same version of the 1\/3 Bible.  But he didn’t have it thrown at him.  I’ll let him explain:<\/p>\n

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The first time I saw the little green version of the Gideon’s Bible was in college.  (Not a Bible really.  More like 1\/3 of a Bible.  It’s got the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs.)  I was driving my car along the what’s called the “Green” in Hanover, New Hampshire, when some zealot threw one in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"yoast_head":"\nPenn Gillette Loves Him Some Gideons - The New Christians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/penn-gillette-loves-him-some-g.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penn Gillette Loves Him Some Gideons - 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