Noah’s Nuggets???
A while back I posted some marvellous "wash away your sins" soap. I never got round to getting some – I’m now kicking myself for not remembering to buy a bottle on a recent trip to the States.
Now I discover*, amazing but true , that you can buy a totally Biblical treat, 
and munch your way through "nutrition God’s way" with a snack bar containing the seven foods of Deuteronomy. Did Moses order them to be wrapped in plastic, Iwonder?
You can also buy God-is-Love chocolate, Bible Gum, and "Testamints" – the mints with a message. I can’t guarantee that Biblical Sweets won’t rot your teeth, just like the normal ones. But they could just make you laugh out loud, especially if you decide to feast yourself on – wait for it – Noah’s Nuggets. 
Yes, really. Pause for silent mirthful weeping. (Oh, I’d really better get that soap now…).
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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Thanks, Maggi. A really interesting tip-off. There is a strange refletive quality between Dawkins atheism and US Fundamentalism, and an assumption that any other form of faith isn’t really faith.
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I thought that Rob Knop’s comment was interesting:
http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/?p=25
Very interesting article… extremely thorough and Gray comes across as more scientific than many of the so-called scientific secularists. Thanks for the link.
Mark