[HarleyD]

Put that together with the fact that in verse 5 of that chapter we have "certain lewd fellows of the baser sort" being used to stir up the city and its rulers, and I'd say that's a slam dunk for politics being in the Bible -- both in letter and spirit! :-)

And we see WHO precisely is active in politics. ;O)

[Agrarian]

"Certain lewd fellows of the baser sort"

That is one of my favorite phrases in the KJV. I just love it -- nothing else quite has the flair and punch to it. It's right up there with "...the bewitching of naughtiness and the wandering of concupiscence..."

Leaving aside the Byzantine text-type and all that, it would be hard for me to give up the KJV just for the language alone...