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• Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I went to college in a small town, there was a festival every fall in the old downtown area, and a religious group would get a booth right in front of the bar we liked to go to. They would forcibly hand out those tiny little new testaments to everyone trying to walk into the bar. The bar owner put a 50 gallon trash can right inside the door. It was full of those bibles. Such a waste of paper.

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  • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder what they’d say if you tried reselling them near the local church

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    • Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should have dragged the trashcan outside and asked them to help me take it to the dumpster.

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really don’t get why English speakers are so glued to the King James Bible. Most other languages keep re-translating the bible, aiming for more accuracy and more understandable language for modern audiences.

  Pretty much every time I’ve seen anyone actually deal with the King James Bible, they have a set of explanations what this or that thing actually means. It’s the worst possible bible to use for anything.

  And that’s on top of the concept that a 2000+ year old text is supposed to contain all the wisdom ever needed.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it has no copyright. Each new translation has a new copyright.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Other languages also have outdated shit translations without copyright and still use more modern translations.

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The King James version was also written to specifically reword the Bible to include as many references to a monarchy as possible in the hopes of propagandizing the population during a time when kings were losing their heads at an alarming rate in Europe.

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