Do you know your Bible?

Recently, Secretary of War!! — the title should come with exclamation marks! — Pete Hegseth made news by quoting a movie instead of the Bible during a pseudo-sermon. People laughed at that.

But should they have laughed?

Yeah, probably. Still, let’s have some empathy for Warrior Pete. How many of you can distinguish the Bible from movies? It’s harder than you think.

Here are a series of quotes. See if you can tell which ones are from the Bible and which ones are from a film. Give yourself extra credit if you can identify the movie or the Bible source. Answers are below.

A “We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

B “All it takes is faith and trust.”

C “Happiness is the richest thing we will ever own.”

D “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

E “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.”

F “This cannot be a team of common men because common men go nowhere. You have to be uncommon.”

G “Our faith can move mountains.”

H “Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it.”

I “I am not a prize to be won.”

J “The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded.”

K “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.”

L “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

Calculate the damages: Who doesn’t love a good mathematical challenge?

OK, I do realize a lot of you don’t, but I have a fun one for you today: How much would you pay for a breeding to White Abarrio?

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you are a sane, rational person. I, obviously, am not a sane, rational person and right now I’m battling the urge to go on a long rant about horseracing economics.

I will restrain myself (I think). Suffice it to say that horseracing rivals crypto, Ponzi schemes and anything Trump sells for financial insanity.

I’m bringing this up because the owners of a racehorse called White Abarrio recently sued Breeders’ Cup Limited, California Horse Racing Board and Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for barring the horse from participating in a $1 million race just moments before it started.

The “scratch” — the term for a horse’s withdrawal from a race they were scheduled to be in — supposedly happened because White Abarrio’s “choppy gait” indicated he was unsound. As a result, he lost the chance to compete for all that money.

The owners say WA was perfectly fine and his gait always looks like that.

I’m not going to go into whether the scratch was justified or not, mainly because I have no idea. The mathematical challenge is: How do you calculate damages if the plaintiffs win?

Here’s what the lawsuit says: “By preventing him from even starting — much less, potentially winning or placing — in an additional Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Championship race, defendants foreclosed the opportunity to add further elite black type performance to his race record, diminished his appeal relative to comparable stallions whose credentials were not so arbitrarily curtailed, and likely prevented him from securing a more favorable, or any, stallion deal with a major commercial breeding operation. This, in turn, reduced his present and future earning capacity in the breeding shed through lower stud-fee potential and weakened breeder demand. The losses likely exceed $10 million.”

Aside from the chance to add to WA’s race record, is any of that true? You can decide for yourself but the answer is no.

Some extra earnings don’t affect stud fees — a lot of stallions with the highest stud fees didn’t earn all that much on the track. I could explain this, but you’re already bored.

White Abarrio has earned more than $8 million. While I wrote this column, I took a break to watch White Abarrio win the Oaklawn Handicap — a $1.25 million race. He doesn’t need an extra big win for his resume.

We don’t know how WA would have done in the race last fall. He could have won. He could have run last. You never know on a given day.

So, members of a hypothetical jury, how do you come up with an award?

I’d consider a boatload of carrots and peppermints. He’s a nice horsey.

The answers:

Movies: A (“Coach Carter”); B (“Peter Pan”); C (“Donald Duck”); F (“Miracle”); H (“Brave”); I (“Aladdin”); J (“Frozen”); L (“The Passion of the Christ”)

Bible:  D (John 15:13); E (1 Corinthians 16:13-14); G (Matthew 17-20); K (Ecclesiastes 4:10)