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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam3/22/2017 2:36:58 am PDT

re: #214 Anymouse

I don’t see a whole lot of difference between the RCC’s long-time stance that the Bible in vernacular was somehow improper, and wingnut churches here saying anything but the KJV (ancient modern English that literature students have trouble with) is improper.

The KJV, despite their insistence, is not the best translation available, as scholarship since the 1600s has given us a better understanding of the original languages and meanings of the Scriptures. Besides, the flowery, archaic prose is difficult for modern readers to understand without effort — or the assistance of the pastor, who can interpret it in a suitable way.

IOW, the hardline KJV lovers would prefer to keep the obscure language to keep the laity befuddled, much as the RCC insisted the Vulgate was the only acceptable version of Scripture, until it acknowledged vernacular versions were necessary to spread the faith.

Their argument boils down to insisting the KJV was divinely inspired (or guided) and thus all later translations are merely the work of men, and not God.

These are often the same people who reject evolution, plate tectonics, the Big Bang theory, or any suggestion that “truth” is a fluid concept, that is impermanent, subject to later re-interpretation. Constitutional originalists are cut from the same cloth.