Posted on 05/31/2016 2:50:48 PM PDT by bkopto
A new translation of the Bible updates the religious text with modern technology, replacing several words with emojis.
The digital text titled “Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millenials” uses Apple’s vast library of emoticons to retell all 66 books of the Bible in a way intended to relate to young people.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Wow, this is worse than the Ebonics translation.
I had to ask my daughters WTF an emoji is?!
I really like the lolcat translation (used it in Sunday School), but doubtful about this one.
Waste of effort, they still won’t read it.
This is doublePlusUnGood, a-la-1984.
SEEMS spunky and upbeat, but it’s actually chilling.
What if we reduced gay ideology to SKETCHES..?
I wonder how they’d take to that, huh..?
"It's a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.'s idea originally, of course," he added as an afterthought. (1.5.23, Syme)
Yeah. I really needed THAT mental image...
You know. I had to take a look. Shocking what people spend their time on! LOL!
Matthew 6
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Matthew_6
Pls to stop havin teh kittehz lulz
25 so i sez, stop havin teh kittehz bout ur lifes, wat cheezburgerz or drinx u is havin, or about ur bodeez n wat u iz wearin. Iz life not moar importint den teh foodz, and teh bodeez moar importint den teh cloathz?26 Lookit teh birdz in teh ceilingz, dey dont be in teh fieldz gatherin teh f00dz or puttin dem away in teh barnz, but teh Ceiling Cat givez dem f00dz anywayz lolz. Wat, u aint more better den dem?27 Who can make teh life longur by havin teh kittehz newayz?
28 And y u be havin teh kittehz about teh raimentz? Lookit teh lileez in teh fieldz. Dey dont work or nuffingz29 but Solom0n cant pwn them even with his pimp outfitz. No rly.30 If teh Ceiling Cat makes teh grass all pritty, and it gets thrwn into teh 0venz 2morr0w, wat about u, peeplz who no beleiv dat much?31 So plz to be stoppin havin teh kittehz n sayin “oh noez, i can has cheezburger?” or “wat 2 be wearin 2dae?”32 Bcuz onlee teh n00bz be havin kittehz about thees thingz, k? Ceiling Cat noez wat u need. srsly.33 Look around first for teh kingd0m and teh r0xorz of teh Ceiling Cat, an u can has all thees thingz.34 So stop havin teh kittehz bout teh fut00r bcuz it have enuff kittehz alreddy. 2dae pwns u enuff. kthxbai.
Whoa - that is a trip!
What Christians should be doing is paying to have our own editions of the King James Bible custom printed.
Publishing companies who produce and profit off of all sorts of antichristian material shouldn’t be producing for-profit copies of God’s Word.
John 1:5
Teh lite iz pwns teh darks, but teh darks iz liek “Wtf.”
My God bless you and keep you! The gates of hell will not prevail against His people.
‘Twould be better to teach them to read, perhaps.
A difficult task to be sure.
Of course, with respect to math...feggedabawdit!
Yes, we know you STEM millenials are fine.
We should consider ourselves blessed emjois weren’t an option when the text was translated.
There are plenty of options even before the emjoi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723370/posts#2
I’ve heard strange rumors of emoitcons in the older and better manuscripts, but it’s all greek to me.
The snake: =====:}
O8-) Starry-eyed angel
O:-) Angel
:-{)} Jesus?
The emoji is the path back to the non-alphabetic writing systems of the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_systems#Pictographic.2Fideographic_writing_systems
It would be a step backward for literacy - except to the literacy envisioned in the “1984” quote posted above.
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