dtm | Christian math geekery (Reply)

So the gospel lesson this week was Mark 6:30-44 which says in part:

³⁸ And he said to them, How many loaves have you? Go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. ³⁹ And he commanded them to make them all sit down, arranging the guests on the green grass. ⁴⁰ And they sat down, arranged in hundreds, and fifties. ⁴¹ And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, raising his eyes to heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fishes among them all. ⁴² And they all ate, and were satisfied. ⁴³ And they carried away twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes. ⁴⁴ Now they who had eaten were about five thousand men.

So there you have it - Biblical justification for the axiom of choice. I don't know why the connection hadn't occurred to me before.