The end is coming...

[John Cole]

Imagine Melville inspired by this new version instead of the majestic cadences of the King James.

"Call me Buddy. I feel like jumping into line at the funeral home and going for a ride. Instead, I'm off to sea.
But I'm no different from you. We all like like the sea, pal. That's why all you rich guys buying up oceanfront property. But, hell, you're trapped in the office. I'm off after a whale."


Yuch.

[andyfox]

"frequent masturbation helps prevent prostate cancer..."

Hmm . . . When I was having urological problems, and saw three different urologists, one of the first questions they asked was about my self-indulgence. And here I thought they were just being nosy . . .

Maybe that's why the chances of protate cancer increase as one gets older and less interested . . .

[HDPM]

"But one must choose to either accept the Bible, or
dismiss it as legend and myth."


What if we say it is a tool of political oppression written by people who deliberately hoodwinked people in order to control them? I am not saying that is what it is, necessarily, but there are way more than 2 possibilities.

[bdypdx]

New Scientist

[Zeno]

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....instead of the majestic cadences of the King James.



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This is what the eternal skeptic Mencken had to say about the Authorized Version of King James [from Treatise on the Gods]:

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In English the Authorized Version of King James has been in use among Protestants since 1611…It is the most beautiful of all the translations of the Bible; indeed, it is probably the most beautiful piece of writing in all the literature of the world. Many attempts have been made to purge it of its errors and obscurities. An English Revised Version was published in 1895 and an American Revised Version in 1901, and since then many learned but misguided men have sought to produce translations that should be mathematically accurate, and in plain speech of everyday. But the Authorized Version has never yielded to any of them…Its English is extraordinary simple, pure, eloquent and lovely. It is a mine of lordly and incomparable poetry, at once the most stirring and the most touching ever heard of. That there are gross absurdities in it is apparent to everyone, but absurdities do no damage to poetry.

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And I agree; the sickly blandness of modern Bible translations would inspire no one.


From the KJV, Psalm 73 v. 9:

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Remember this next time you sit at a poker table - you will be inspired.

-Zeno

[Cyrus]

I like the Bible.

It's wise, it's the apothecary of a big part of wisdom of times past, it's decent pornography, it's harmless. Unless one takes it as sacred.

Because, as we all (should) know, there is nothing sacred. Nothing except what we choose to make sacred.