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EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoTbh, I’d rather they get their rhetoric from a king James version than some of the newer interpretations.
There’s a lot of word changes between them that alter context to some things.
They don’t actually read any edition, they just get soundbytes from some middle aged angry white man who hasn’t read the older editions either and really wants to push their “women are subservient, being gay is wrong, racial division is good actually,dont fight back against authority” narrative.
HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Why should they get their interpretation from an apologetic translation written in the 1600s? There are many better versions with more accurate translations and include so many things that have been found since then.
If the context in the KJV was wrong, why shouldn’t it be updated?
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 days ago
It’s more that the US is just drunk on ‘the bible’ which seems likely linked to the entire country being carpeted bombed in little 66 book KJV’s as a social experiment around the 1800’s and they just can’t stop rewriting it as they need a constant flow of novel Jesuses. This week it’s Mundane Markan Jesus duct taped to some bits from the Pauline corpus for lolz, The Gospel of Bart Ehrman for the masses that stopped going to masses but still need to cling to a personal Jesus.
I don’t even think Bart’s aware of what’s he’s doing, it’s completely bizarre.
If you hear the meme ‘most scholars agree’ alongside some claim from the SBL, run for the hills.
HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’d argue that, while there are many - odd - translations (new urban bible, new living translation, new American translation, among others), there are some very good recent academic translations which shouldn’t be included in that. NRSVue and NOAB come to mind as excellent academic translations accessible to the everyday person.
It’s just unfortunate that so many people got duped into this religion by books that were making excuses and purposely translating apologetically.
Christianity is untrue either way, but some recent translations make it far more apparent than others.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
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