In my last ponyblog post, I included a pony reference to Matthew 19:24 — a verse from the Bible. According to “Bible Gateway,” the New International Translation is: “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” The ponified version is: “Verily I say unto you, it is easier for a human to pass through the eye of a needle than for a pony to enter the Citadel of Equestria.”
I think the Bible version to simply means that if you’re rich (or otherwise have strong worldly attachments) that it would be virtually impossible for you to go to heaven). In the ponified version, however, I didn’t do an exact ponified replacement; instead, I replaced “camel” with human and swapped out the hypothetical rich guy with the ideal of pony. If I applied the typical interpretation to the ponified version, then, it would seem like I was saying that it would be virtually impossible for ponies to get into Equestria. But as horse is good and already in Equestria at any rate, the ponified version read more like a gnostic gospel or zen buddhist verse.
Thinking about this some more, if we combing the two, we get:
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (and if everyone is rich today compared to thousands of years ago), then human = rich man. Thus, it is also easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than for a pony to enter the Citadel of Equestria. (And how does a rich man pass through the eye of a needle as compared to a camel?) …but as ponies are already in Equestria, how exactly is it easier? …quite the conundrum, meponythinks.