Posted on 10/23/2009 10:09:14 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
I believe that Christianity is the single best influence on mankind. It is responsible for Western civilization's flourishing, it is responsible for the heights of freedom and liberty that untold billions of humans have enjoyed and will enjoy in the future. Certainly the bedrock of that success is the Christian Bible.
So, don't go calling me a religion hater or a Christian basher. There. That is said.
Now, the story is that a "pastor" in North Carolina is having a book burning event for his fool followers and one of the books he is burning is any copy of the Bible that isn't the King James version. Why burn any version of the Bible that isn't a King James version? Why, donthca know it's because the King James version is the only real Bible, the only one that God ordained... at least according to this ill-educated hick it is, anyway.
All the other editions of the Bible are heretical as far as Marc Grizzard is concerned. All the other editions are "satanic" and are "perversions" of God's word, says this towering ignoramus.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Marc Grizzard is a hell bound Pharissee who does not know God.
Seems like this pastor’s problem has a lot more to do with ego than stupidity. You have to be pretty arrogant to openly declare that your preferred version is the only non-satanic one.
At least the King James Version is a masterpiece of English prose. It was translated by a fine group of scholars, giants who were at the top of their profession at a time when the cream of the intellectual crop went into the church.
Psst... Don’t tell him the original publication of the King James left the word, “not” out of the Ten Commandments.
Thou shalt commit adultery, thou shalt murder,...
You get the idea.
King James also had a homosexual fetish for rolling around in slaughtered animals’ blood. Fortunately, he didn’t actually do the translating himself.
Huston must have been unable to think of anything important to write about.
I always wonder how many would be or could be Christians turn their backs on Christianity because of kooky idiots like this guy. The King James version, which by the way, is the one I use, is quite old and some of the newer versions are more accurate in the translation process.
Well, the term ‘Bible thumper’ makes me look squinty-eyed at the writer. Not exactly an intellectual headline.
Interesting. I never heard that before. What is your source?
How is that a homosexual fetish — or are you saying he liked to get busy with a boytoy while rolling in animal blood?
My personal Bible is the King James simply because it is my personal preference. My Church uses the NASB.No we shouldn’t just blindly accept whatever version comes along. Prudent study by anyone who regularly reads the Bible can easily determine which versions are crap, and there is crap out there. God’s word will be preserved. Many people I know who are King James Only (mostly Baptists) make arguments to me that tend to elevate that version of the Bible almost to the point that their salvation depends on it. Many of them believe if you don’t read the KJV you are reading Satans version of the Bible. Again, God will preserve his Word.
The depravity of King James I didn't end with sodomy. James enjoyed killing animals. He called it "hunting." Once he killed an animal, he would literally roll about in its blood. Some believe that he practiced bestiality while the animal lay dying. James was a sadist as well as a sodomite: he enjoyed torturing people. While King of Scotland in 1591, he personally supervised the torture of poor wretches caught up in the witchcraft trials of Scotland. James would even suggest new tortures to the examiners. One "witch," Barbara Napier, was acquitted. That event so angered James that he wrote personally to the court on May 10, 1551, ordering a sentence of death, and had the jury called into custody. To make sure they understood their particular offense, the King himself presided at a new hearing - and was gracious enough to release them without punishment when they reversed their verdict.The problem is that's not reliable; A fairly broad historical consensus is that James was a homosexual, but not a sodomite. Apparently he absolved himself of any sin by telling himself that mutual masturbation wasn't sex; in his writings, he strongly condemns .
There are enough attacks on Christians and Christianity without the in-fighting that is instigated by morons like this pastor, and others right here on FR.
The worst, in my opinion, are the ones that go out of their way to attack one of the most moral, most conservative, most patriotic religions around; the Mormons, as "not Christian" because of differences in orthodoxy.
Watch. There will be several of them here soon.
1899 Douay-Rheims
Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.
King James
Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
I have never understood the KJV only crowd. I have read nearly every translation out there from Amplified to Young’s Literal. Each has brought me greater understanding at different times.
yes.
naturally you can surmise it’s a topic one has to be very careful entering into google.
I love the prose of the King James, even though I’m Catholic and was raised on the New American Bible. Every Christmas Eve, I listen to “A Festival of Lessons and Carols”, from King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. All the readings are from the King James, and I’ve heard them so often that now, when listening to Scripture during Mass, and one of those readings comes up, I find myself reciting the KJ version to myself, while the Lector is reading from the Lectionary, which is usually based in the NAB.
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