Conjuring trick with bones

One of those misquotes. He really said:

 

"The resurrection was much more than a conjuring trick with bones"

 

Makes a big difference!

 

 

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Daily Telegraph (England), July 31, 2002
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 31/07/2002)

Few bishops would now share the views of the former Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev David Jenkins, who caused a scandal in the 1980s when he contrasted the Resurrection with a "conjuring trick with bones."