Isn't it funny how religious fashions change? I'd like to think that the religious teaching are based on documents that haven't changed very much, but they seem to change a lot, books vanish, get edited, or tolerance for some aspect rises/falls. It all seems pretty random and whimsical, and not something that you could rally stack your beliefs behind.
Read Christopher Moore's "Lamb" I think you'd like it.
There is another one I really enjoyed called "the bad popes" a look at the worst Popes in history... I even found my favorite Pope included...poor guy.
Are you saying that the King James version of the bible is not the direct and literal word of God? That Jesus didn't speak in KJ English? What's wrong with you? (Gad ... that conversation really happened, not in those words, but between my spouse and her roommate and some religious fanatic on BART years ago ... the person refused to believe that the bible had gone through many translations, and that Jesus did not speak KJ English ... gah!)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "King James" wasn't published until the 17th Century.
As an aside (in view of your spouse's experience)... it's interesting when a Fundamentalist or Born Again Christian tries to tell me that the Catholic Church doesn't believe in the Bible... that had happened several times.
Having been brought up Southern Baptist, I can tell you that this particular sect does not teach ANY history about other religions, because frankly they don't want you to know anything about them. Dumb, but there you go. I think that if you want to refute another religion's beliefs, you should know something about it first ... it gives you SOMETHING to work from, anyway. But yeah, the fundamentalist/born-agains are often (not always) very uninformed ... sigh.
The KJ version of the bible I grew up with read the latter. Maybe you had some "modern" translation of that? I honestly don't know. I know there are some newer translations of the KJ bible. Don't know why anyone felt it necessary, but there you go. <g> (For poetry, the KJ is rather cool, IMO ...)
But that's not even the main problem with that line! When you go from Latin to English, the word "daily" is something very different, that no one is sure of the meaning of! The more you look, the more fun it is.
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Re: Ah. I wondered if you would reply to this...
Date: 2007-12-05 11:18 pm (UTC)Read Christopher Moore's "Lamb" I think you'd like it.
Lamb
Date: 2007-12-05 11:22 pm (UTC)Re: Lamb
Date: 2007-12-06 12:13 am (UTC)Re: Ah. I wondered if you would reply to this...
Date: 2007-12-06 12:55 am (UTC)Hebrew to Greek to Latin...
Date: 2007-12-06 01:06 am (UTC)As an aside (in view of your spouse's experience)... it's interesting when a Fundamentalist or Born Again Christian tries to tell me that the Catholic Church doesn't believe in the Bible... that had happened several times.
Re: Hebrew to Greek to Latin...
Date: 2007-12-06 01:11 am (UTC)Re: Ah. I wondered if you would reply to this...
Date: 2007-12-06 04:31 am (UTC)Re: Ah. I wondered if you would reply to this...
Date: 2007-12-06 04:13 pm (UTC)Love the In Nomine Icon, btw.