Ever since full body scanner technology was unveiled at Heathrow airport I have been expecting some kind of tabloid scandal surrounding them; well my wait wasn't a long one as a 25 year old male has been questioned by police after apparently "staring" at the image of a female colleague in the scanner. Clearly BAA are making a terrible mistake, they shouldn't be employing 25 year old males whose bodies are full of hormones and urges to check people for concealed weapons; what they want are some proper Biblical eunuch's!
Ah, life was so easy in the Bronze age.
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How about trusting God to do the scan and divine revelation to show up potential bombers?
The Bible's actually very anti-eunuch. Eunuchs were banned from the assemblies. Presumably because they were presumably either foreigners or the result of *ahem* bad workmanship. The NT has a generally more eunuch-friendly policy, but the Ethiopian eunuch may have been merely a general term for a royal servant.
Is the airline really so surprised at this?
G, "bad workmanship" ... (wince!)
Isn't Jesus supposed to have said something about them being better than unmarried people? (I'm probably talking rubbish there.. :)
Young men + x-ray spec's .... what could possibly go wrong :)
CB, or (call me crazy) smite all "gods" i.e. remove the reason for there to be bombers in the first place? ;)
Steve - we can't remove ALL gods. Who would look after my small things?
My wife looks after mine..
Everyone needs a God of Small Things.
Steve: Jesus's comment was that some are born eunuchs, some who have it thrust upon them, and others achieve the state for the kingdom of God.Matthew 19.12.
It's an odd verse, and it comes out of the debate on divorce. His disciples seem to be saying if you aren't allowed to divorce it's a mug's game getting married!
Jesus is against divorce (you may be astounded to hear) but apparently on the grounds that men are such bastards rather than as a female oppression kind of idea.
I wonder whether the eunuch comment us a response to the suggestion that he was either a enuch himself, or possibly gay - as a 33-year-old single man wasn't particularly common in that culture.
Do you think maybe the airlines could advertise their security scanning jobs in the back pages of comics now? I seem to remember that's where you saw the X-ray specs ads.
G, thanks for the clarification - yes I remember those Ads on the back of the Beano!!
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